Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the light of the friendly flames played over their faces , Clare felt she was in a dream world where time was suspended . |
| 2 | A lorry rolled past us along the road , its crumbling body bright with painted pictures plastered over with dust . |
| 3 | ‘ Sadly there is n't a venue in England yet 1,200 British fans came over to cheer me on at The Hague in Holland recently . ’ |
| 4 | FOUR would-be killers took over Ulster Tory Lawrence Kennedy 's home but were thwarted by his wife pressing a secret alarm button , Belfast Crown Court has heard . |
| 5 | When England was at war and sentries were posted at both ends of the tunnel , one night , early in the war , German planes droned over and dropped bombs along the railway line possibly aiming to destroy the tunnel and so to cut a supply link to the Channel ports and the British armies in France . |
| 6 | The Society of Free Fishermen took over the interests of Newhaven and continued to look after the port for the next two centuries . |
| 7 | From time to time light showers blew over , but the squadron plodded on with a mute , masochistic determination . |
| 8 | SCOTTISH Nationalists took over part of the headquarters of one of England 's largest water companies yesterday in protest at the possible privatisation of the industry in Scotland . |
| 9 | In a transaction that has never fully been explained , and to this day baffles Baxter , the two Scottish players handed over counterfeit Canadian dollars , and within hours were facing police accusations that they were involved in a forgery ring . |
| 10 | If the adult plants are looking weary , then these can be removed , the severed stems picked over , the healthiest pieces bunched together with a strip of lead or piece of wire , and then replanted in the vacant baskets . |
| 11 | This perspective is inadequate for an understanding of the colonial legal system because the post-independence practices evolved over a long period of time . |
| 12 | The Presidents of Yugoslavia 's six constituent republics took over from the federal presidency the principal role in negotiating Yugoslavia 's future when they began on March 28 a series of weekly summit meetings . |
| 13 | The major national breweries themselves began to either acquire or be acquired by non-brewing companies so as to form larger conglomerates such as Allied-Lyons ( formed when Allied Breweries took over the catering group J. Lyons in 1978 ) , Grand Metropolitan ( formed when Grand Met Hotels took over Truman Hanbury and Buxton in 1971 and Watney Mann in 1972 ) and Imperial ( formed when Imperial Tobacco acquired Courage Breweries in 1972 ) . |
| 14 | Figure 18.1 shows how the total casualties fell over this period even though the number of vehicles on the road was increasing . |
| 15 | His dark eyes flared over her hair and the long lips compressed in irritation as if the sight of her was more than enough to infuriate him . |
| 16 | Canadian troops handed over to French , Egyptian and Ukrainian troops on July 28 . |
| 17 | The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea , capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be otherwise inexplicable . |
| 18 | Equally , individual officers had over reacted to the disturbances with the over zealous use of dogs , truncheons and a number of unlawful weapons . |
| 19 | He went on : The worst happened when British-Indian forces took over Rangoon on 3 May . |
| 20 | Willie was left with Mrs Black and she and the remaining children filed over to the school . |
| 21 | ‘ The Dark Lords fought over who should have the chaining of him . ’ |
| 22 | As Ardzinba and a group of Abkhaz parliamentarians fled north to Gudauta , the Georgian troops took over major installations in Sukhumi , and Givi Lomanidze , the Abkhazian Interior Minister deposed in June [ see p. 39019 ] , was reinstated . |
| 23 | Iran was reported on Nov. 13 to have permitted foreign residents to return to the island of Abu Musa , possession of which had been in dispute since mid-April when Iranian troops took over civilian installations [ see pp. 38887 ; 39116 ; 39165 ] . |
| 24 | Many of the Yugoslavs and White Russians handed over were executed without trial by the Titoists and Russians . |
| 25 | As the new parliamentary session began on April 23 the leading parties negotiated over who was to fill the posts of president of the Senate and leader of the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 26 | A cloud of small white gulls flew over our heads to land on the grass beyond : kittiwakes . |
| 27 | Large companies took over others and thus became more ‘ transnational ’ in operation . |
| 28 | Early in the First World War substantial numbers of Czech and Slovak troops went over to the Allied side . |
| 29 | His playing days looked over , but then came a comeback and last year Lumsden was ready , fighting fit to play for Oxford at Twickenham . |
| 30 | ‘ The architect 's plans for the changes made in nineteen hundred and ten when the Priory was reconsecrated Roman Catholic and the Little Sisters took over . ’ |