Example sentences of "[adv prt] over an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It faces south , in over an acre of landscaped gardens with a feature water-garden . |
| 2 | SEVKI AKINCI : a 16-year old Kurdish boy , on 9 April 1992 he beaten and abused by soldiers , held down over an open fire , and then left for dead . |
| 3 | People become vulnerable : they feel very thin-skinned ; over-sensitive and self-pitying ; moody and unpredictable , with a cheerfulness that is transparent and brittle ; they may become tearful , perhaps breaking down over an item of television news or for no apparent reason at all . |
| 4 | Then it breaks out over an overlap onto the characteristic smooth slabs and walls which at the same time tempt and intimidate , attract but repel . |
| 5 | About four cubic kilometres of ash were ejected , falling out over an area of 57,000 square kilometres . |
| 6 | Imagine you have an office with large windows looking out over an open-plan office ; through these windows you can see what your subordinates are up to . |
| 7 | A particularly ambitious study of this kind , carried out over an entire geographic region , was that done by Ken Green , Rod Coombs , and K. Holroyd of the Tameside region , near Manchester ( Green et al. 1980 ) . |
| 8 | To anyone raising the argument that perpetual servitude is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel , I will reply that , adding up all the moments of unhappiness of servitude , it may well be even more cruel ; but these are drawn out over an entire lifetime , while the pain of death exerts its whole force in a moment . |
| 9 | The light waves emitted from the surface of the star between 10:59:59 and 11:00 , by the astronaut 's watch , would be spread out over an infinite period of time , as seen from the spaceship . |
| 10 | There was a great deal of stopping and starting when it all got underway ; the scorer made a mistake ; the score indicator broke down ; we caught Grampian out over an answer they gave as wrong , when it was right . |
| 11 | A ROW has broken out over an exhibition of photography by lesbians . |
| 12 | Today certain people will not go on the station after dark , so the past tragedy lingers on over an entire railway complex . |