Example sentences of "[vb past] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Designed by John Carr of York and built over a period of thirteen years between 1759 and 1772 , its spectacular interior boasts exquisite plasterwork ceilings by the Scottish architect Robert Adam decorated by Angelica Kaufman , Biagio Rebecca and Antonio Zucchi .
2 When I tell you she weighed over a ton , you can see why we were a bit nervous .
3 Its massive cathedrals towered over a community whose port and commercial infrastructure had collapsed as investment declined and union power encroached .
4 He peered over a rampart of cushions .
5 A DAREDEVIL parachutist appeared in court yesterday charged over a leap INSIDE St Paul 's Cathedral and another off Tower Bridge .
6 Fawehinmi , charged over a magazine article in which he accused Babangida of planning to cling to power , had already been sentenced on Jan. 5 to 12 months imprisonment for contempt of court , but had been released on bail pending an appeal .
7 Artists had been hired especially to prepare these culinary masterpieces in the lifelike forms of birds , beasts and cattle , jousting courtiers in full armour , soldiers battling with cross-bows , knights dancing with ladies ; all were vividly depicted in the gilded confections which rose over a yard high from the groaning dining tables .
8 Four Minor Project schools were selected for closer investigation by the evaluation team and visited over a period of one or two days .
9 Gradually , collaborative writing ( writing in pairs , threes , fours and sustained over a number of sessions ) began to increase .
10 As the train thundered over a set of points he steadied himself against her seat for a moment , then wandered off down the aisle .
11 Without warning Hasan bumped over a kerb and drove across a stretch of grass towards a precipitous drop .
12 The place was empty , but for a cloak-shrouded figure bent over a rosary to the right of the door , and a man sitting alone in the front row .
13 There were a dozen mourners from the family in the front pews — women with grey curls and mild glasses , an old man bent over a stick , his head projecting forwards from the unoccupied collar of his overcoat like a tortoise 's ; a schoolboy in a neat navy-blue trenchcoat , holding a maroon cap .
14 In the first incident McConville , of Lurgan Road , Aghagallon , rubbed his hands up and down her sides as she bent over a dishwasher in the kitchen .
15 Sunday lunchtime found Joseph Shill bent over a table at the King 's Head at Egham .
16 Buster bent over a table , on trestles ( airman 's six-foot , for the use of ) , and received his punishment from a great monster as we thought at the time , a flight sergeant RAF policeman with a cane .
17 When the Headmaster wanted a little exercise , you bent over a chair and got six — twelve with a cane on the backside ; if you were hit just below the buttocks on the legs , it hurt more .
18 Now , bent over a box , she nearly choked at this reference to her daughters ' poverty .
19 If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice .
20 Nearing the noise he was not surprised to find Tock bent over a bag of tools .
21 As Chitty J. lamented over a century ago :
22 We interpret the moderate dispersion and dual polarity ( except for Tsm ) of palaeomagnetic data to indicate that cooling and remanence acquisition occurred over a period long enough to average palaeosecular variation .
23 The parricide committed by human beings occurred over a period of perhaps thousands of years , and was repeated innumerable times all over the globe , for it was the primal horde that marked humanity off from nature , and began the social , historical and cultural evolution of man .
24 The plagues probably occurred over a period of about a year .
25 If the damage occurred over a period of time , there is no cover .
26 But the Pilkington dispute could not have been anticipated ( although there were issues that precipitated it — pay levels were perceived to be low and the initial walkout occurred over a wages error ) .
27 The firelight flickered over a face that was grim as stone .
28 Angie paused , the coffee pot suspended over a cup .
29 To avoid settlement problems at this location a surcharge embankment was constructed and monitored over a period of 8 months .
30 He caught over a stone of roach , which was about 200 per cent more than any normal angler would have managed .
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