Example sentences of "[been] [verb] over [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 2 | 16 NOT all Americans have been won over by Super Mario . |
| 3 | And I saw that the shed window had been boarded over with some plywood , and the board had a number beneath which was the signature ‘ Popova ’ . |
| 4 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 5 | By midday the Common had been turned over with meticulous care , the pools dragged and the frogmen sent down . |
| 6 | The colonial administration 's paper , Mambo Leo , had , like its stablemates , been turned over to private hands . |
| 7 | The predicament of peasants on state lands which had not been handed over to private landowners was marginally easier , but did not differ fundamentally from that of the private serfs . |
| 8 | One such building in the suburb of Karlshorst was a Stasi training centre less than a year ago , and has now been handed over to local artists , who have turned it into a Kunst Haus ( art house ) and bar . |
| 9 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 10 | Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale . |
| 11 | Their grandparents may have been brought over as forced labour when Korea was still a colony , but even descendants born and brought up in Japan are denied civil service jobs and positions with major corporations . |
| 12 | 2.27 There must also be a discount for the uncertainties of life : the fact that the deceased might have been run over by another bus on the following day or that he was involved in a particularly hazardous occupation . |
| 13 | ‘ You have been thrown over for another woman , that 's what I think . |
| 14 | The ‘ deterrent ’ compounds of many rain-forest plants are used ( and have been fought over in major wars ) by humans to flavour food , e.g. cinnamon ( bark of Cinnamomum verum , Lauraceae ) , tea ( alkaloids and tannin of Camellia sinensis , Theaceae ) leaves , ginger ( rhizome of Zingiber officinale , Zingiberaceae ) and seeds such as nutmeg ( Myristica fragrans , Myristicaceae ) , cardamom ( Elettaria cardamomum , Zingiberaceae ) , and coffee ( Coffea arabica , Rubiaceae ) , and cloves ( flower buds of Syzygium aromaticum , Myrtaceae ) . |
| 15 | Macedonia , lying across the southern end of the Vardar-Morava corridor which connects the central Danubian lowlands to the Aegean coasts , has always been fought over by rival powers . |
| 16 | Outside the party the syndicalists had formed a " Left " of the unions and this had been taken over to some extent by the Communist Party of Great Britain , founded in 1920 . |
| 17 | Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen . |
| 18 | Increasing financial difficulties became another problem when Rotha Lintorn Orman 's mother cut her allowance , believing that the BF had been taken over by disreputable elements , who lived off her daughter 's money and manipulated her by making her increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs . |
| 19 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 20 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 21 | The London jewellers Tessiers reopened on 5 November , having been taken over by new owners . |
| 22 | In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled . |
| 23 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |
| 24 | Indeed , in many organisations , the tasks of project appraisal have been taken over by corporate planners , whose primary concern is to ensure that projects , however viable , possess ‘ strategic fit ’ , ie they conform with the long-term aims of the organisation . |
| 25 | The more fertile areas of farmland along the coast had long since been taken over by German farmers . |
| 26 | Scotland 's last independent whisky company Invergordon has been taken over by American rivals Whyte and Mackay . |
| 27 | There was danger , too , underfoot : the path had been ploughed over in many places and here and there were lumps of frozen earth covered with snow , and slippery . |
| 28 | There were supposed irregularities in the cheques , some of which had been endorsed over to third parties allegedly in breach of authority , so the administrators issued but did not serve a protective writ . |