Example sentences of "[verb] over by a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There is no official collection because it is immediately picked over by a series of scavengers — first adults , then children , then dogs and cats . |
| 6 | Student Vivienne Wilson , 18 , from Purley , Surrey , said she would never be won over by a salesman — but a President would be another matter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thus there came into being a national jurisdiction which had forsworn Catholicism , ruled over by a queen who refused to abandon her Catholic faith . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Derek Douane was being cooed over by a pair of predatory women in their fifties , not minding their tanned fingers in his hair , on his face or twanging his braces . |
| 16 | The first house Jane looked at was moated and she was shown over by an ex-policeman who seemed happy to be working for an estate agent . |
| 17 | Divided into groups of eight , each watched over by a party official , an MP and an industrialist , they begin with a series of discussions about current affairs . |
| 18 | When I arrived at the course , there they were in a rack being watched over by a young man , who , in turn , placed them in a buggy . |
| 19 | Above left : Large silk bows adorned with trailing gold stars are watched over by a golden cherub and help to liven up the staircase |
| 20 | In the exercise of his remaining prerogatives the king was watched over by a Council of State — a miniature second chamber chosen by the king from a list submitted by the Cortes . |
| 21 | Eventually , they came to a large set of steel doors , watched over by a single guard . |
| 22 | Two thousand already frenzied teenagers — watched over by an army of protective bodyguards dispensing coke and caring words rather than the customary threats — are now at fever pitch . |
| 23 | YOUTH hostel chiefs will learn today whether a £10,000 tip handed over by a tourist is genuine . |
| 24 | They denied the allegations and last month three were bound over by a Liverpool stipendiary magistrate , despite the CPS successfully appealing against a decision that proceedings against the four be stayed . |
| 25 | She raised the barrel skywards , and was tumbled over by a breaking wave . |
| 26 | The scraggy neck and brutally squared and misshapen breasts put one in mind of an old woman , worked over by a lifetime of misfortune . |
| 27 | He was pulled over by a policeman who verbally abused him after he had challenged the officer 's authority . |
| 28 | What had happened in Dungannon , he suggested , was no different from what had happened in Prague : ‘ We ordinary people have been walked over by a militant force . ’ |
| 29 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 30 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |