Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] over from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the same as in the last exercise except that you are bent over from the waist . |
| 2 | But if the daily figures had n't yet been brought over from the Ritz and Strand , he would stop off there too . |
| 3 | But not in the lake ; the lake water itself was caustic , and all our water had to be brought over from the mainland . |
| 4 | This belt , named after Kuiper who suggested it would be left over from the formation of the planets , has been much-discussed as a possible source of short-period comets . |
| 5 | Much of the stocks are left over from the campaigns conducted against locusts and mosquitoes two decades ago . |
| 6 | In spite of the causal theory 's having been taken over from the rationalist , Descartes , it could be put to use in the interests of empiricism . |
| 7 | The trouble is during the week , a lot of little shops only have what 's been left over from the weekend and their vegetables , cos that 's what happens at ours |
| 8 | She dragged herself from the sofa and listlessly prepared herself some lunch , making do with bread and Camembert cheese and some of the pâté which had been left over from the night before . |
| 9 | It is possible the explosives were left over from the Deal attack . |
| 10 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 11 | Second World War gas masks , tin helmets and posters on treating burns and what to do with incendiary bombs were left over from the days when each factory had a fire watch and some even had a home guard . |
| 12 | A 35.5 cm high Egyptian quartzite bust of Senbef , a court official in the reign of King Psamtik I , has been sent over from the United States for this two-day sale of Antiquities and is estimated to fetch £600–800,000 ( $1.1–1.5m ) . |
| 13 | It 's left over from the War . |
| 14 | One concern is simply the common withdrawal of headquarters functions from the North when a firm is taken over from the South ( Watts , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Raoul Walsh was brought over from the US to direct O.H.M.S . |
| 16 | It was interesting the way the film was brought over from the picture . |
| 17 | That winter , the Corsair was hangared at Southend , while a new engine was shipped over from the USA and fitted to the aircraft . |