Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so , as predicted , two buckets of pigs blood were poured over the two of them and they were received by hysterical laughter . |
| 2 | In the main factory , heads were bent over the new German sewing-machines in which Rose had recently invested . |
| 3 | All cars were judged over the two days at given times for sound quality including staging , stereo image , clarity , frequency separation and absence of noise . |
| 4 | Reportedly a total of only 14 aircraft were sold over the two day event , and those that actually sold realised low prices , making it somewhat of a buyer 's market . |
| 5 | Rhythm was controlled over the long paragraphs ; articulation crystal-clear . |
| 6 | Marco was stepping over the spasming limb as if the robot was n't there . |
| 7 | In these cases a one nucleotide ‘ creep ’ of the blocked transcript was observed over the 15 min elongation time studied , as has been noted previously with other intercalators ( 11 ) . |
| 8 | Each entry was scrutinised over the following eight weeks both by the dampness group and a panel of academic experts — who unknowingly had chosen the same winners . |
| 9 | At the Olympic Games in 1908 , the marathon was run over the unusual distance of 26 miles 385 yards . |
| 10 | The VAS were averaged over the first 3 days of admission ( any patient with data missing was omitted from the analysis ) and these means compared by Mann-Whitney U tests . |
| 11 | Rugs in jewel shades of emerald and topaz were thrown over the terracotta-tiled floor and the curtains , like the sofa and armchair covers , she had sewn from a heavy cream fabric . |
| 12 | The great abbeys established as a thank-offering by the victorious Normans were complemented over the next four hundred years by a number of smaller foundations , dictated by the tenets of fashion and individual piety . |
| 13 | By Easter Eva was presiding over the annual weekend houseparty of the nurses ' fellowship . |
| 14 | Whaddon saw their acceptance into the Combination as the first tentative step towards professional League football , and work was undertaken over the next five years on building and improving basic facilities at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 15 | Six weeks after battle was joined over the proposed ‘ rectification ’ of French spelling , the resistance fighters appear to have won the day . |
| 16 | The yellow and blue republican flag of Ukraine was raised over the Supreme Soviet building in place of the Ukrainian Soviet flag , to the delight of demonstrators outside . |
| 17 | The old flag was raised over the Supreme Soviet building in Riga for the first time on Feb. 27 . |
| 18 | At relaparotomy a large bile duct defect was seen , located 1.5 cm proximal to the cystic duct and a Roux-en-Y loop was anastomosed over the perforated area . |
| 19 | One child was flung over the eight foot fence and he was in and out of hospital four times . |
| 20 | Their organisations were split over the original decision to send troops to the Gulf : the National Association of Arab Americans ( NAAA ) supported the build-up , while the ADC , a larger organisation , opposed it . |
| 21 | Fortnightly intramuscular injections of 50 mg mycocrisin were administered over the next three months . |
| 22 | A minimum of 7 mm lead shielding was used over the central area and over the body of each animal . |
| 23 | Opinion was divided over the best place to stand , for if they watched the launching they missed a close-up view of the final plunge into the sea . |
| 24 | The unmistakable shape of a turkey vulture was soaring over the rocky ridge below which the jumbled boulders of the mysterious ‘ stone runs ’ flowed in great ‘ rivers ’ down the hillsides and out on to almost level ground . |
| 25 | Mrs Fletcher was bending over the last of a bed of weeds , hoping finally to rid herself of them before her husband returned from the potato harvesting . |
| 26 | There were characteristic variations in waveform over the left temporal region as a function of different spoken letters , but no parallel changes were recorded over the corresponding region of the right hemisphere . |
| 27 | If the event were duplicated over the whole country on a week on week basis you could multiply Susan and Vera 's conversation many times over . |
| 28 | In terms of world production , OPEC output was estimated over the second half of 1988 and the first half of 1989 to have represented about 34 per cent of the total ; in addition approximately 20 per cent was produced by the Soviet Union and about 15 per cent by the United States , around 5 per cent each by Mexico and China , and about 3 per cent each by the United Kingdom and Canada . |
| 29 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 30 | Police were waiting on the streets and the square was turned into a dangerous , slippery ‘ ice rink ’ as water was sprayed over the hallowed ground in an effort to deter the demonstrators . |