Example sentences of "been [vb pp] over the [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 | He has one of them , the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | About nine that morning a German pathfinder had been reported over the Firth of Forth . |
| 10 | This amount had been collected over the winter , with the proceeds of a weekly raffle also being added to the bottle . |
| 11 | I was disappointed that the water-wheel had gone — the kitchen had been built over the pit which had housed it . |
| 12 | ‘ He 'd been slumped over the freezer for some minutes before anyone realised anything was wrong , ’ he said . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Stanley is obviously worried that his wife has been cheated over the sale of Belle Reve . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The cover had been zipped over the top of them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mark 's name had been called over the loudspeaker system . |
| 19 | The tunic might have a silken decorative border , and in winter a fur coat of ermine would have been worn over the tunic . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had the pathologist 's preliminary report which had been dictated over the telephone . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | I have already said that anathema had been pronounced over the Avant-garde from the beginning of the Thirties , and that made it very difficult for the avant-garde artists themselves , as well as for their families . |
| 24 | The second session of Parliament , which began on 9 November , saw an attack on the standing army , the Commons refusing to vote supply for the additional forces that had been raised over the summer , and instead resolving to bring in a bill to reform the militia . |
| 25 | The car , a green Morris Minor , had been toppled over the edge of a shallow depression in the wasteland , and had lurched to rest on a grassy plateau about ten feet from the ridge like a clumsy animal going to earth . |
| 26 | ‘ Besides , he may have been driven over the edge by her carryings-on . |
| 27 | Although the vast majority are hardened by their loss , others have been driven over the edge of madness . |
| 28 | Threats had been made to her and the children and in the end she had been driven over the edge . |
| 29 | The gate at the frontier had been pulled over the road and locked shut . |
| 30 | the technology has been proved over the course of more than 100 years . |