Example sentences of "been [vb pp] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A preheated cupping glass would then have been placed over the wound and the cooling action of the air inside would have produced a vacuum capable of sucking the blood out . |
2 | Amongst other things , we were always finding used syringes that had been lobbed over the wall . |
3 | He had been admonished over the incident , which happened in August 1991 near his home . |
4 | A great deal of ink has been spilled over the nature of indirect duties , to which I will return in the next section . |
5 | But the German church now supported the rival Alexander , as they had not been consulted over the appointment of Paschal . |
6 | It should have been completed over the weekend . |
7 | ‘ Well , Boyo , it 's either this or that , ’ said Taff , pointing to the alternative — a large piece of meat that had been roasted over a fire and looked most unappetising . |
8 | According to colleagues , whose judgment of distance had been honed over a day spent working on yardage charts , the sliver of wood was four centimetres long . |
9 | He has one of them , the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security . |
10 | That respect has been earned over the space of a 39- year career with the firm which has seen Grants take its Glenfiddich brand and turn it from a regional tipple in the north-east of Scotland into Britain 's and the world 's leading single malt . |
11 | About nine that morning a German pathfinder had been reported over the Firth of Forth . |
12 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
13 | Thousands of pounds have been collected over a number of years , resulting in items of new equipment that have each been featured in previous issues of Glenpatrick News . |
14 | This amount had been collected over the winter , with the proceeds of a weekly raffle also being added to the bottle . |
15 | I was disappointed that the water-wheel had gone — the kitchen had been built over the pit which had housed it . |
16 | ‘ He 'd been slumped over the freezer for some minutes before anyone realised anything was wrong , ’ he said . |
17 | Nevertheless , some 730 ‘ cables ’ had been transmitted over the line and so Field and his colleagues had proved that a transoceanic cable was not only feasible , but could also take a great deal of traffic . |
18 | ‘ One telephone call which could easily have been faked from any phone box , a letter which no one outside the family has seen , and a pay-off which will supposedly take place once arrangements have been made over a telephone number they refuse to disclose . |
19 | A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ . |
20 | No decision has been made over a youth coach , a position Hankin held before his sudden promotion to the manager 's office . |
21 | Stanley is obviously worried that his wife has been cheated over the sale of Belle Reve . |
22 | On the fifteen-mile drive , they had been instructed over the radio to stop on the outskirts of St Petersburg , where the woman was transferred to an unmarked car . |
23 | The cover had been zipped over the top of them . |
24 | Here and there water had fretted the walls into tracery , which glittered as the spear-light slid across it ; elsewhere , colours had been washed over the rock in a shifting mingle of greens , blues and reds . |
25 | Mark 's name had been called over the loudspeaker system . |
26 | The tunic might have a silken decorative border , and in winter a fur coat of ermine would have been worn over the tunic . |
27 | He received Nicholas and Astorre in his pavilion , and within a reasonable time , although the quilted cover had barely been flung over the mattress , and the pile of carpets was ruffled . |
28 | He had the pathologist 's preliminary report which had been dictated over the telephone . |
29 | PRI political secretary Giorgio La Malfa claimed that he had been misled over the Cabinet posts by Andreotti " who I thought was a man of quality " . |
30 | In May 1990 the FAO launched an appeal for $85,000,000 to eradicate the New World screwworm ( Cochliomyia homnivorax ) , a large fly of South American origin which had been detected over an area of 18,000 sq km in Libya . |