Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The song was bellowing out over the din of the battle . |
| 2 | He reached up and ruffled Prentice 's hair in the semi-darkness ; the boy 's head was hanging out over the top bunk . |
| 3 | Operations reported that a big raid was building up over Sicily and shortly afterwards all aircraft were scrambled . |
| 4 | The start was delayed by over half an hour because one of the health visitors had been busy through the day , and things went downhill from there . |
| 5 | His turnout exceedingly elegant , the father was walking on over the hard curd-white earth down the double track of the carts towards the small port on the coast ahead . |
| 6 | The cassock had a thin hood , held in place over the attendant 's head and face by what looked like the brim from an old and worn red hat ; it was squeezed down over the attendant 's head , the top of the hood showing through where the hat 's crown should have been . |
| 7 | This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments . |
| 8 | An offshore spectrometric survey was carried out over the seaward extension of Geevor mine to detect additional mineralised lodes and to map the granite/killas contact ( MEG 264 ) . |
| 9 | Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year . |
| 10 | As fast as FAX and having user groups for just about every computer and software product around , it is becoming one of the main channels for passing information around the scientific community for example , much of the debate on Cold Fusion was carried out over the Internet . |
| 11 | A persistent witchhunt was carried out over the proposed women candidates within the new Clinton administration , focusing on their childcare and domestic arrangements . |
| 12 | Our Anniversary Luncheon , with Malcolm Rifkind , Secretary of State for Transport , as principal speaker , was as well attended as ever ; even the Annual Ball in March was enjoyed by over 300 members and guests . |
| 13 | The Etruscans and Europe ’ , the major exhibition on both the Etruscan culture and its later influence on European art , was visited by over 330,000 people while at the Grand Palais from 19 September to 4 January . |
| 14 | After Mass , the parishioners and family gave a reception in honour of Father at Coniston Hall , Coniston , which was attended by over 100 people and was a superb setting for the occasion , situated on the bank of Coniston Water and being overshadowed by Coniston Old Man . |
| 15 | The WARC was attended by over 1,400 delegates from 127 countries and 31 international and regional organisations . |
| 16 | The Wembley show was attended by over 10,000 people thousands more on the following two Sundays when it was shown on TV . |
| 17 | It was attended by over 200 representatives of local community , tenants , unemployed , and political groups . |
| 18 | This conference was sponsored by the BCS Data Management and Expert Systems Specialist Groups , ESPRIT and DTI/ITD among others , and was attended by over 80 delegates from 15 countries . |
| 19 | A charity dance held on the night of the theft was attended by over 300 people . |
| 20 | In the Summer , the University was the venue for the Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association , which was attended by over 250 researchers from throughout the UK and overseas . |
| 21 | The rally was attended by over 3,000 deputies to soviets at all levels ( from rural soviets to the USSR Supreme Soviet ) , and these met subsequently to adopt overwhelmingly a declaration calling on the USSR Supreme Soviet to enter into negotiations " on the restoration of Estonian state independence " . |
| 22 | The sixth international conference on AIDS ( acquired immune deficiency syndrome ) was attended by over 10,000 delegates on June 20-24 in San Francisco , United States [ for fifth conference in June 1989 see p. 36752 ] . |
| 23 | The forum , sponsored by the Vietnamese government and the UN Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ) , was attended by over 600 delegates from 31 countries . |
| 24 | The meeting , which had no decision-making powers , was attended by over 150 prominent individuals , ranging from political leaders to artists . |
| 25 | In March 1991 President Suharto of Indonesia , Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong , Sultan Sir Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed convened in Bali for a seminar , which was attended by over 1,000 Asian and American delegates , with the theme " ASEAN and the world economy " [ see p. 38101 ] . |
| 26 | The annual World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland , on Jan. 30-Feb. 4 was attended by over 30 heads of state and government , including many from eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States , and by some 1,000 business people , politicians , officials and academics . |
| 27 | The congress was attended by over 600 delegates representing some 80,000 party members , approximately 20,000 less than at the time of the 20th congress held in February 1991 [ see pp. 38008-09 ] . |
| 28 | Supporters have been visiting the new hospice premises at Harewood House where a very successful coffee morning was attended by over 100 people . |
| 29 | The 27th Annual General Meeting was held at Rutherford School , Penfold Street , NW1 on Friday , 16th March 1979 and was attended by over seventy members despite a severe snow storm . |
| 30 | The NPP gained 16 seats , but only Busia was successful from the Congress , beating his Cpp rival by nine votes ; Danquah was defeated by over 1100 votes . |