Example sentences of "[vb pp] over by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive Allen missed one great chance six minutes before half-time when his snap shot from inside the box , following a superb pass by Julian Dicks , was brilliantly tipped over by Bees ' keeper Graham Benstead . |
| 2 | The local rubbish-tip near the roadside is constantly picked over by gulls , starlings , crows and ravens . |
| 3 | The prestige audience would be won over by movies that could take their place alongside the middle-class novel and play . |
| 4 | been turned over by warlords , they want to get their own back . |
| 5 | You know , the freeholds were made over by deeds of gift by way of conveyance , and the — ’ |
| 6 | To be a good manager requires one to handle this array in such a way that education is fed and fostered — education which is provided by teachers , encouraged by parents , watched over by governors , expected to be accountable to central and local government and capable of satisfying everyone that high quality is delivered . |
| 7 | Watched over by Cis ‘ who could n't help herself ’ . |
| 8 | A COUSIN of Prince Charles was pulled over by police yesterday for trying to dodge a queue of traffic on a motorway slip road . |
| 9 | He was run over by thieves who 'd been trying to steel aluminimum worth less than two hundred pounds . |
| 10 | People were run over by trains because they would stretch themselves out on the rails for a quick nap , or because they were drunk . |
| 11 | While walking the rest of the way , you are run over by kids on mopeds . |
| 12 | Imagine that when you come home from a holiday , your house has been taken over by squatters . |
| 13 | Because of the present confusion in East Berlin , the owners of the buildings are unknown and many of them have been taken over by squatters from all over the world who make paintings , installations and sculpture frequently from old junk and scrap metal , create theatre and festivals , run parties and discos , bars etc . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've lost many of our localised products because they 've been taken over by multi-nationals . |
| 15 | Astley was half taken over by evacuees . |
| 16 | Gorfang Rotgut is the chieftain of the Orcs of Black Crag , the ancient Dwarf hold taken over by Orcs many years ago . |
| 17 | Sue Rorstad , who built up her Poppies firm into one of the region 's most successful companies , says the town has been taken over by drunks and thieves . |
| 18 | The growth in pre-school services , which in no way matches parental demand , might be seen as clear evidence that some of the family 's functions in child-rearing , even in the earliest years , are being taken over by professionals ( e.g. nursery teachers and nursery nurses ) and other ‘ specialist ’ child carers ( e.g. child minders ) . |
| 19 | If a local authority persistently refuses to fulfil its statutory obligations , its powers can be taken over by officers of central government . |
| 20 | By the ‘ fifties we were taken over by Leavisites — ghastly neurotics shrieking about maturity . |
| 21 | Occupants of houses taken over by HATs will be secure tenants , but during the passage of the Bill fears were expressed about the possibility of much higher rents . |
| 22 | Nobody became more interested in the fate of these early directors than Scott Fitzgerald , and his unfinished novel The Last Tycoon is essentially about how directors were taken over by producers in the Hollywood system . |
| 23 | fewer jobs may be required as routine work is taken over by machines |
| 24 | However , it is most likely that many expert tasks are also soon to be taken over by machines . |
| 25 | But gradually the pattern changes until we see the growth of commercialism by which time the symbols in ornament had less meaning as such social networks were supplanted by more cohesive political groups ; production could at that time be taken over by entrepreneurs who continued the evolution of regional designs but who were distributing the goods in an entirely different manner . |
| 26 | A fox 's earth , long abandoned , and not taken over by birds or rabbits , provided the dumping-ground . |
| 27 | Most shops and herds have been taken over by families or collectives . |
| 28 | This was the very fringe of his parish , that part that would never become residentially ‘ desirable ’ because it was too near the railway , and many of the big gaunt houses had been taken over by families of West Indians . |
| 29 | Soon after the Shah left Teheran , the Iranian embassy in Washington was taken over by militants and by members of Zahedis staff who had hitherto seemed loyal to him and the Shah . |
| 30 | Is it not also a fact that , because industries in the north and north-west and other such places have increasingly been taken over by industries based in the south , the north has always been last for investment and first for cuts ? |