Example sentences of "and [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just talk to them , find out what they 've seen and heard over the last couple of weeks , ’ the DI said . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've put Mr Trumper 's things in the bedroom and checked over the flat . |
| 3 | Half-way along it , Ember whipped round to yell , ‘ Go , Jez ! ’ and vaulted over the hand-rail . |
| 4 | The man burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter to snatch £90 in cash . |
| 5 | Police issued the photofit of a man who burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter . |
| 6 | While Dylan 's is the voice of death , despair , loss , wrack and ruin , Young 's call , seemingly polished and matured over the years , speaks of hope , regeneration and humility , reaching a peak on the heartbreaking beauty of ‘ Such A Woman ’ . |
| 7 | Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service . |
| 8 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 9 | Hence the focus is on local politics , on the ways in which these have changed and developed over the post-war period and on the concepts and theories used to account for such changes . |
| 10 | In Cambridgeshire , Jack Ravensdale has been able to show from documentary references how the village plans of Cottenham , Landbeach and Waterbeach have changed and developed over the centuries . |
| 11 | ‘ The average number of vehicles passed through the shops for repairs annually is 8,100 … . there are 3,200 employed at Wolverton , while outside we have 2,000 at Crewe , Carlisle and Willesden , and scattered over the line ’ . |
| 12 | Chunks of blue-green stuff flaked off and scattered over the floor . |
| 13 | One tree in a school near Worcester has remained in its original position , while the buildings around it have been demolished and rebuilt over the centuries . |
| 14 | This was another of the instructions that would be repeatedly announced , ignored and forgotten over the next decade . |
| 15 | That battle had been fought and won over the Beveridge report . |
| 16 | Outside the Barbican , the National Gallery is mounting ‘ Edvard Munch : the Frieze of Life ’ ( 12 November to 7 February ) which focuses on the cycle of paintings of that name which the artist codified and modified over the years . |
| 17 | The numerous fissures there , which came to be known as the Back Strings , represent these early excavations upon the vein outcrops , though they have been modified and deepened over the years . |
| 18 | Housed together under one roof from the early 1800s , and arranged and rearranged over the years ( but always with the Elgin Marbles at the centre ) , the collection was the raw material from which scholars wrought theories of the ‘ Progress of Antiquity ’ that culminated with the Ancient Greeks or , in direct opposition , that of cultural relativity accepted today . |
| 19 | To give a suitably ‘ thick ’ appearance to the painted plaster surface applied over the new brickwork of the chimney , ‘ Sirapite ’ plaster was mixed with wallpaper paste and smeared over the overprecise profiles of the new work . |
| 20 | The criteria for listing have changed and broadened over the years to include more Victorian buildings and , subsequently , more twentieth-century buildings . |
| 21 | ‘ If Alain was murdered and pushed over the edge the way I figured , then it could easily have been torn off . |
| 22 | The Prosecution alleges that it was here , on a night in November two years ago that Pauline Leyshon and her boyfriend Ivor Stokle were bundled into a car which was then set alight and pushed over the edge of the hill . |
| 23 | There the court heard they were forced into a car which was set alight and pushed over the edge . |
| 24 | IT is a great privilege and pleasure for me to honour my old friend and colleague John Gillam , with whom I have worked and argued over the last thirty years . |
| 25 | We 've noticed that the numbers of young homeless people who are coming to see us have risen and risen over the last few months and few years . |
| 26 | Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that his approach to the Eighth Symphony has broadened and mellowed over the years , losing in the process much of its Russian accent and instead seeking out more refined , more purely musical nuances . |
| 27 | And crawled over the edge of the dish and slid down into the mushy stuff . |
| 28 | Taylor , who had proved the most obdurate of the faction leaders at all stages of the ceasefire negotiations , was reported to feel angry and cheated over the Lomé agreement . |
| 29 | And is n't that just the case with everything you gone and done over the centuries of black oppression ? |
| 30 | A large map , or picture , was unrolled and hung over the blackboard . |