Example sentences of "[vb pp] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ordered a cloak to be draped and tied round the body which was then slung over a horse and they continued on their way to the Abbey of Holy Rood . |
| 2 | Together with radiometric age determinations of the most recent eruptive episode , such reconstructions enable estimates to be made of the amount of material eroded over a known period of time . |
| 3 | The partnership was successfully liquidated over a period of years and it was left to John Baring to rebuild the business in the form of a limited company . |
| 4 | If we could have turned over a living trilobite we would have seen an array of jointed legs on the underside , and flexible antennae . |
| 5 | For the planted aquarium the total tank volume should be turned over a maximum of once every hour , and filtered gently , with no spraybars , aeration , or jetting effect . |
| 6 | Therefore the total water volume of your aquarium ( 100 litres ) should be turned over a maximum of once every hour , and the water should flow very gently back into the aquarium , avoiding strong currents and surface turbulence . |
| 7 | Dennis the Menace has turned over a new leaf — for a week ! |
| 8 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
| 9 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 10 | COMIC Mike Harding saw how Middlesbrough has turned over a new leaf at the weekend . |
| 11 | Nor is Thorpeness trailing in the scenic stakes ; the short 7th with a tee shot over a lake complete with ducks , is utterly distracting . |
| 12 | He has now moved over a mile away from Youngs ' home . |
| 13 | Sudirman promptly handed over a vast cache to the city pemuda . |
| 14 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 15 | The latter grudgingly handed over a stash of notes . |
| 16 | Director of Safety & quality Richard Killick ( left ) recently handed over a cheque for £200,000 to East Lothian District Council chief executive Malcolm Duncan ( centre ) and council chairman George Wanless to help finance the construction of a new community sports centre in Port Seton . |
| 17 | External Affairs Minister Madhavsinh Solanki resigned on March 31 after admitting that he had handed over a note to his Swiss counterpart , René Felber , requesting the Swiss government to slow down its investigations into pay-offs to high-ranking Indian officials allegedly deposited into Swiss bank accounts by the Swedish armaments company AB Bofors [ see pp. 35336 ; 35382 ] . |
| 18 | The contract was awarded in September 1990 and within six weeks CCG had mobilised and handed over a number of buildings to support the construction team on the ‘ Core Site ’ . |
| 19 | Second , the scope of what New Historicism involves is continuously changing , and the conflicts between contending views are often localised over a few issues . |
| 20 | Go left over a low ridge and downhill . |
| 21 | The photographs were taken over a period of ten years , and eventually they were brought together in a book in 1960 ; ten of the book 's essays originally appeared in Vogue , where the appealing mix of an artist 's conversation along with Liberman 's descriptions and commentary succeeded well . |
| 22 | Appropriately enough for a photo session with one of the fittest men in the world — capable of dancing for hours without a break — we 'd taken over a corner of top London gym , The Peak , at the Hyatt Carlton Tower Hotel . |
| 23 | An Italian entrepreneur has taken over a whole department store to sell western goods in Romanian currency . |
| 24 | They , Castle Houses , had put up the prize for a steeplechase and had also taken over a prestigious handicap hurdle race already in the programme for Saturday . |
| 25 | The Government has advised that women who are pregnant or may become pregnant should not eat liver , as very large doses of vitamin A taken over a long period may be associated with foetal abnormalities . |
| 26 | Souness has taken over a club with financial difficulties . |
| 27 | The England skipper has taken over a club founded by one of his predecessors , Nigel Melville . |
| 28 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 29 | Non-availability of the system due to software or equipment failures during normal working hours should be not greater than 2% taken over a three month rolling average . |
| 30 | The total time lost by system users as a result of errors or the need to correct errors should not exceed twelve and a half hours taken over a three month rolling average ( i.e. 98% accuracy of processing ) . |