Example sentences of "which [vb past] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most fundamental need was to increase the area of water by the provision and enlargement of wet-docks and basins , the total acreage of which doubled over the last quarter of the eighteenth century as a prelude to a much greater expansion between 1800 and 1830 . |
| 2 | He stopped by the pedestrian crossing which led over Rosebery Avenue to the square , red-brick building of the Air Gallery . |
| 3 | The war , which arose over the two countries ' rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea , was widely regarded in Russia as the product of intrigue at court and among a handful of entrepreneurs , and aroused little patriotic enthusiasm . |
| 4 | Most notable among them were a Louis XVI ormolu-and-Wedgwood porcelain mounted clock thermometer and its companion barometer-thermometer attributed to Adam Weisweiler ( est. $150–200,000 ) which sold to a telephone bidder for $250,000 ( £138,900 ) and an amusing pair of painted jeux de loto ( essentially eighteenth-century bingo cards in their holders ) , which sold over the telephone for $60,000 ( £33,300 ) ( est. $20–30,000 ) . |
| 5 | He rode the rocking-horse , which moved over the lawn without effort . |
| 6 | The outer layer of the Earth was seen as consisting of a rigid lithosphere , composed of several ‘ plates ’ , which moved over the underlying more mobile asthenosphere . |
| 7 | As regards the US domestic market , these changes in profitability are opposite to those of concentration , which rose over the period . |
| 8 | Look back at any crises which occurred over the last few years . |
| 9 | Libya also allegedly planted the bomb on the PAN AM flight which crashed over Lockerbie . |
| 10 | The 54-year-old monster , which towered over the garden , was cut down on television by professional contractors , who safely lowered its limbs one be one . |
| 11 | And as she pushed open the west door Miss Danziger was met by the scent of fennel , the six-foot stems of which towered over her from a huge stoneware pot , very different from the musty scent of piety that greeted her in English country churches . |
| 12 | But most attention went to the largest elephant of all , a fifteen-foot-high inflatable which towered over MP Paddy Ashdown — only recently elected leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats — as he officially cut the green ribbon across the door of the Greenpeace-funded Stop Hinkley Centre . |
| 13 | Out of every hundred aircraft which ventured over the border , eighty-seven returned safely . |
| 14 | Kevin McAllister 's header from a right-wing McGivern cross gave Marshall problems , while at the opposite end Creaney took advantage of a huge kick-out which bounced over John Hughes , to send a lob inches over . |
| 15 | It was misty , and there was not a soul in sight , and I had the same eerie feeling which came over me sometimes in other parts of the village . |
| 16 | It is difficult to find words strong enough for the sensation which came over me ; Milton 's ‘ enormous bliss ’ of Eden ( giving the full , ancient meaning to ‘ enormous ’ ) comes somewhere near it . |
| 17 | The new bosses are so lower class , so uncouth , such vulgarians — ’ Davide would put a finger across his lips , but without emphasis , for he loved to hear her anger , it healed his own affliction , the binding fatigue which came over him when he contemplated his work , and made his legs drag across the shiny floors in the clanging corridors of the new Law Courts , Town Hall and Police Headquarters in booming Riba , concrete inside , dead white marble outside , sprouting confident towers of glass and statuary of muscular naked giants , Order clubbing Chaos , Force cracking Cowardice 's skull underfoot . |
| 18 | PARIS — The pilot of the UTA DC10 which exploded over the Sahara desert on 19 September , killing all 171 people on board , had previously complained of lax security on the Libreville to Paris route , according to a report in Le Canard Enchaine , writes Patrick Marnham . |
| 19 | Sanctions , including a ban on air traffic and arms sales and the reduction in Libyan diplomatic representation , went into effect at dawn yesterday with the expiry of a grace period for Col Gaddafi to hand over the two suspected bombers of a Pan Am jumbo jet which exploded over Lockerbie , Scotland , in December 1988 . |
| 20 | Williams leaped for a header which dropped over Ian Walker and just under the bar — with the keeper finding he had taken one step too many off his line . |
| 21 | A RUGBY fan broke her leg after ending up at the bottom of a ruck which spilled over the sideline . |
| 22 | Eric Cantona went as close as anyone when he tried a 40 yard lob which sailed over the goalkeeper 's head only to hit the bar and bounce into the grateful arms of Dmitri Kharine . |
| 23 | It was a dignity which triumphed over the unsightliness of the long upturned hooves , the fleshless ribs , the broken-down udder almost brushing the cobbles . |
| 24 | The Woman turned , pulling the whole of the little group round with her so that they faced the house , towards the mirror which hung over the sofa . |
| 25 | There was a bar selling alcoholic drinks and two milk bars , one at floor level , one in what had once been the balcony , and a huge multi-faceted glass ball which hung over the dance floor . |
| 26 | Tea had been laid in the blue drawing room , a vast room dominated by two huge chandeliers and an enormous portrait of Henry VIII after Holbein , which hung over the fireplace . |
| 27 | The rain slowed to a fine drizzle which hung over the countryside like a dirty curtain . |
| 28 | Harriet gave him her portrait , which hung over the chimney-piece at Croisset ; but it was of Gertrude that he was fonder . |
| 29 | Out here he fog bank which hung over the city had thinned to non-existence . |
| 30 | Matthew had acquired a tank which trundled over the carpet emitting small but sharp percussive explosions accompanied by a shower of sparks . |