Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about the quarrelling Australian couple who plunged over a cliff in separate vans after a St Valentine 's day row and a chase through northern Sydney . |
| 2 | The Philistines were a people organised into a federation of five city states , who ruled over parts of Palestine from about BC 1175 . |
| 3 | But Knox could always afford to be a great deal more cavalier about the dangers of rebellion against established authority than those who , being themselves great lords who ruled over men , knew very well the chaos which could result if the bonds of obedience and loyalty were violently broken . |
| 4 | In particular to who passed over her pearls of ‘ wisdom ’ which made the organisation much easier . |
| 5 | This remarkable and rapid growth was attributable to a relatively small group of full-time tutors and organising secretaries resident in these counties who demonstrated over several years the importance of their roles , personal qualities and ‘ … their intimate association with members of branches and groups , which , in its turn , comes only from … active sympathy with those ends which they seek to achieve through adult education ’ . |
| 6 | I was sandwiched between two big men who joked over my head about how squashed they all were . |
| 7 | To only a few had he been the devil who gloated over their private grief . |
| 8 | In 1985 , 26% of carers who devoted over 20 hours a week to caring were over 65 themselves . |
| 9 | He conveys our variousness because he includes the parts of our life that he hates , as well as those he loves , and notices the many almost unknowable communities in our midst , people only a little less mysterious than his group of Aztecs who came over in stone boats . |
| 10 | One Home has had great success with an art therapist who came over to take classes , combining residents from a number of Homes close to each other . |
| 11 | Between them , the Quakers and the Christian Council looked after about twenty per cent of those who came over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 12 | It is signed on the back by Raisa Gorbachev , who came over to chat to reporters . |
| 13 | He had rung for Baron , who came over and examined her briskly . |
| 14 | THE Welsh Grand National is the next target for this progressive staying chaser , who came over from Ireland last year . |
| 15 | When I told Constanza , she who has a memory for these things said , ‘ Good Lord , not M. J. Devaux who came over with the French team after the war ? ’ |
| 16 | Robert Deane 's daughter married William Dalison of Grays Inn , who was descended from the Dalisons of Lincolnshire and claim descent from one De Alanzon who came over with William the Conqueror . |
| 17 | It occurred therefore to one of " the Teutons " who came over with Daniel Höchstetter in the days of Royal Bess , that guineas and half-guineas might be coined without anyone being the wiser . |
| 18 | The 24 runners included six from the site Fire Brigade , bravely running in their waterproof overtrousers and braces , and two from CSD 's Brussels staff who came over for the occasion . |
| 19 | Vanners Silks is by far the oldest company , its history stretching back 250 years to the Huguenot weavers who came over to this country from France . |
| 20 | Well they used to ask you to invite the e actually invite the American soldiers into your homes and my friend in Chuckery a couple of years ago , I was visiting him one Sunday lunch and a knock came to his door and he went and it was a guy who came over to see , his mum is now dead , but he , he come over he remembered him from the war . |
| 21 | His ancestors were probably Normans who came over . |
| 22 | Turner , who scored over 300 points last season after joining the club from Acklam , has been unable to recapture the same form . |
| 23 | At Llandudno Junction , Control contacted the Motive Power who sauntered over towards the station , just in time to see Baglan Hall head for Llandudno . |
| 24 | Of the 60 directors who received over £500,000 in dividends , 28 gained up to £1m ; 27 between £1m and £4m ; and five over £4m . |
| 25 | Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) . |
| 26 | And the hoops were made by soldiers , who turned over and stood on their hands and feet . |
| 27 | Those full-time farmers who handed over the holding to a family member at the age of 65 years were entitled to a larger state pension . |
| 28 | But of the 700 people who handed over more than £350,000 to Todd , only 29 made any money . |
| 29 | Denholm entered the cabin with Theodore , who handed over to Talbot some papers he had with him . |
| 30 | The first contra demobilizations , in the Honduran base camps of La Kiatara on April 16 and Yamales on April 18 , reportedly only involved wounded rebels , including 260 Miskito Indians , who handed over old and unserviceable arms to UN forces . |