Example sentences of "was [verb] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder I was struggling over money ! |
| 2 | Last night , the United Kingdom Offshore Operators ' Association conceded that the ‘ sword of Damocles ’ was hanging over oil drilling plans . |
| 3 | pulverized cuttle-shell contained in a pounce-box , shaped like a pepper-caster , from which it was shaken over parchment and rubbed in to prepare the surface for writing . |
| 4 | This was said to me , not by me , at a seminar on joint planning the other week and it was said over lunch by the director of another voluntary organisation which shall remain nameless . |
| 5 | Nothing was said over supper either , not one word . |
| 6 | To her biographer , the meaning of all this was revealed over time and finally clarified by the letters to Ellen Doubleday . |
| 7 | But after almost everyone had tiptoed tipsily to bed , one couple — or so I was told over breakfast next day — stayed behind in the darkened dome-car and made love softly , to the rhythm of the rails . |
| 8 | Sulphate-grown cultures were used to inoculate ( 10% inoculum ) similar medium in which the sulphate was replaced by a synthetic , poorly crystalline Fe(III) oxide ( 100mmoll -1 ) and the production of Fe(III) was measured over time . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd just finished treatment for a drug problem and Paul was getting over valium addiction . |
| 10 | Her a very pale grey pastel was dragged over orange , giving a lovely luminous effect which could not be achieved if the two colours were blended together with the finger . |
| 11 | Dawn was breaking over Labour 's headquarters in Walworth Road , south London , yesterday as Mr Kinnock stepped on to the balcony , his face ghostly white in the television arc lights and his lips drawn tightly after the longest night of his career , writes Jon Hibbs . |
| 12 | A good-length ball was deposited over long-on into the George Headley Stand and in van Zyl 's next over , Simmons flat-batted him straight for four , smashed him imperiously over the extra-cover boundary for six and then drove another four through extra cover . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ Our initial horror and disbelief at what happened on that day was replaced over time by the realisation that that day heralded the start of the British Government 's Shoot-to-Kill policy in Northern Ireland ’ . |
| 14 | Supper over , Paul , with astonishing docility , took the plates away and Karl produced brandy , the very best French cognac , and a little was sipped over coffee . |
| 15 | Her life-long friend , Catherine Quinn , 23 , escaped serious injury because she had bent down to pick up a 20p piece , and she was flung over hand railings . |
| 16 | The three lapsed into silence until the lorry was rumbling over Tower Bridge , then Freddie slipped his hand into his coat pocket and took out a handful of silver . |
| 17 | Only one of the four groups studied by Law and colleagues , the Farnborough ( Brompton study ) children , was followed over time . |
| 18 | In all directions it seemed that scientific investigation was triumphing over ignorance , and scientific analysis replacing rule of thumb . |
| 19 | The RM1 syntactic component was run over mid-class and fine-class transcriptions and achieved 65.6 and 97.2 recognition rates respectively . |
| 20 | The FMI was not intended to be implemented immediately , but was to develop over time , and at a different pace in different departments . |
| 21 | After convincing contractors , with whom it was fighting over cost overruns , not to disrupt the fete , its shares were knocked when anaylsts given a preview were reportedly unamused . |
| 22 | After fifteen minutes he was crouched over tyre marks on the grass verge between the pavement and the road . |
| 23 | They fussed over her as though she were a sick child , then , once the X-rays were completed , returned her to Penry , who was chatting over coffee with Sister Concepta in her office . |
| 24 | While a few policemen tried to the bitter end to avoid conversation with the field-worker , sufficient rapport was established over time for the majority to talk quite openly to her about what are highly sensitive and controversial topics in a Northern Ireland context . |