Example sentences of "[verb] over by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so since that was going to be demolished and built over by a a housing estate anyway , we ripped it out and put it back down here . |
| 2 | Two of us in a great mass of strangers , and various things to do that you 've got to get right , like follow signs and collect your luggage ; then you get looked over by the customs , and no-one particularly cares who you are or what you 're doing there so the two of you have to keep one another cheerful … |
| 3 | His shot hit the upright but Swindon , encouraged , at last began to make an impression and Bolton survived a narrow squeak as Simpson 's powerful effort was tipped over by a leaping Felgate . |
| 4 | This edge of the park is planted with large pine-trees , whose trunks and branches are red-ochre , the foliage green gloomed over by an admixture of black . |
| 5 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 6 | There is no official collection because it is immediately picked over by a series of scavengers — first adults , then children , then dogs and cats . |
| 7 | Sometimes we went to the Cours Mirabeau and watched the debris from the daily market being picked over by the local dogs . |
| 8 | Student Vivienne Wilson , 18 , from Purley , Surrey , said she would never be won over by a salesman — but a President would be another matter . |
| 9 | And the chairman was won over by the manager 's charm , powerful persuasiveness and dynamism . |
| 10 | Even those of us in the office who had their doubts at first were soon won over by the instrument 's simplicity and friendliness . |
| 11 | Dexter found the effect comforting rather than disconcerting : he had been won over by the man 's charm . |
| 12 | The judges said they were won over by the sheer fun of its output . |
| 13 | Some lesser American golfers , lured over by the open cheques that sponsors often have available , had in the past performed less than satisfactorily . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you think you could ask them all to stand over by the window , please ? |
| 15 | Wigan struck again in the 37th minute when Betts and Edwards combined to send Phil Clarke crashing over by the posts . |
| 16 | As it does , old divisions that were welded over by the fight against communism will reappear . |
| 17 | The idea of a political kingdom was something as easily understood then as now : a territory ruled over by a king to whom its citizens are subject . |
| 18 | Thus there came into being a national jurisdiction which had forsworn Catholicism , ruled over by a queen who refused to abandon her Catholic faith . |
| 19 | Popes , especially such as Clement , found men like Winchelsey — all inflexible integrity and principle — a political embarrassment , and what Clement sought was a unified realm ruled over by a king who was prepared to go on crusade , assisted by a primate who would readily raise the papal taxes to pay for it . |
| 20 | Its twin ponds , of some 3.5 acres , have been built over by the ‘ bus station and local shops . |
| 21 | She would rather be slobbered over by the randiest male than be touched in that way by her own sex . |
| 22 | RIBA Companies Ltd , was then set up to oversee the management of these companies , the shares in which were transferred over by the RIBA . |
| 23 | She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped . |
| 24 | But these objects , ritualistically sprinkled and gestured over by a Catholic priest or Aymara sage , take on a new significance as promises of future prosperity . |
| 25 | ‘ At the very least , ’ says Ian Hawkins ‘ it avoids their being crawled over by the competition . ’ |
| 26 | An E minor when it should have been an E major brings the rehearsal to yet another halt while the suspect note is cordially argued over by the boys in the band . |
| 27 | On North went : ‘ I 'm really worried because I have the only copy and it 's in my safe , and I could cross the street tomorrow and get run over by a truck and so no-one would ever know . |
| 28 | But less than half a mile from his home in Witney , Oxfordshire , 42-year-old Mr Adams was knocked off his bike and run over by a van . |
| 29 | David Adams , 42 , was knocked off his bike and run over by a van driven by a suspected drink-driver as he made his way home . |
| 30 | In an instant the coldness of her fury evaporated and her heart was flooded with a tide of raw emotions — excitement , confusion and a desperate yearning that tore at her insides and left her breathless , as though she had been knocked to the ground and run over by a steam train . |