Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some lesser American golfers , lured over by the open cheques that sponsors often have available , had in the past performed less than satisfactorily . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thus there came into being a national jurisdiction which had forsworn Catholicism , ruled over by a queen who refused to abandon her Catholic faith . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | YOUTH hostel chiefs will learn today whether a £10,000 tip handed over by a tourist is genuine . |
| 9 | The scraggy neck and brutally squared and misshapen breasts put one in mind of an old woman , worked over by a lifetime of misfortune . |
| 10 | Bones were flung to the floor and quarrelled over by the hounds , who gave way to Murtach 's two wolves when Fife and Drum desired some particularly meaty scrap . |
| 11 | Maybe it 's in the re-discovered Viking city , now covered over by the Civic Offices . |
| 12 | She reached over by the man 's shoulder to set a styrene cup on his desk , and saw him look at it sharply . |
| 13 | It was the old Daily Herald , in Endell Street , Covent Garden , then dominated by Odhams Press , in turn reigned over by the benevolent Lord Southwood . |
| 14 | But she did , and was another won over by the famous charm . |
| 15 | The story ends at a funeral , hovered over by a surreal balloon , from which hangs a fancied female acrobat . |
| 16 | A scrawny boy , his hand wrapped up in a bloodstained rag , his clothes caked in mud , who looked sicker than some of her patients , and the pale , sullen girl who stood over by the teatrolley , shifting awkwardly from one foot to the other and looking as if she did n't have a brain in her head . |