Example sentences of "and [verb] over the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big jeans names are already aware of the authentic newcomers , and are beginning to realise that the original utility styles they updated and bastardised over the past 30 years are the current fashion winners : watch them scramble to regain their own heritage . |
| 2 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 3 | This model has been developed and validated over the past four years by a research team at Loughborough University through extensive experimentation . |
| 4 | At nearly fifteen he was already over six feet tall and towered over the little Irish doctor in front of him . |
| 5 | In the frightful aftermath of the war , he dithered about UN protection for fleeing Kurds and presided over the horrendous first muddle in UN relief work . |
| 6 | IT is a great privilege and pleasure for me to honour my old friend and colleague John Gillam , with whom I have worked and argued over the last thirty years . |
| 7 | We 've noticed that the numbers of young homeless people who are coming to see us have risen and risen over the last few months and few years . |
| 8 | A great deal has been said and written over the past two years about East European grandees being given back their property , but reality lags behind the talk . |
| 9 | A great deal of blood pumped and washed over the clean tiled floor . |
| 10 | The plane was painted and repainted over the next 20 years with each change of ownership or brand of gasoline . |
| 11 | The sky had clouded over ; the cloud coming up from the desert and spreading over the whole wide sky in a matter of minutes . |
| 12 | These issues have been well raised and aired over the last few months I would like to now raise another issue that I do n't think has been publicized enough that is the issue of under-provision in old age . |
| 13 | First discovered in 1695 , the pavement has been repeatedly buried and re-exposed over the last three centuries . |
| 14 | I would also like to know how members think a branch development strategy should be drafted , approved and introduced over the next few months . |
| 15 | O. coriacea superficially resembles Ophiotrema alberti from which it differs by the lack of distinct spinelets on the disk ; the shape of the adoral shields which are straight and do not have an indented proximal edge while those of Ophiotrema alberti are more wing-like and indented over the second oral tentacle pore ; the shape of the oral shields which are arrow shaped not round and almost hemispherical as in some specimens of Ophiotrema and by the absence of tentacle scales in Ophiotoma . |
| 16 | As they correctly point out , this has broadened and diversified over the past twenty-five years . |
| 17 | Er , first of all on the comment from Dave in relation to British Gas and the minimum achieved performance level or M A P L er the initials that I 've come to er know and love over the past few months , never having heard of them before . |
| 18 | The pit is now a museum where visitors can go underground and discover how miners have worked and lived over the last 200 years . |
| 19 | The programs we use to produce it have been developed and improved over the last few years . |
| 20 | Furiously she rubbed , unknowing that she passed and repassed over the same bright spot , while the images came and went , flitting through . |
| 21 | Grazing groups receive aid based on the number of livestock managed in common and paid over the first 3 years after being set up ; amounts range from 144FF to 370FF per livestock unit ( c. £12.50-£32. 17 ) , the higher rates payable to the groups with least livestock units . |