Example sentences of "[vb pp] over in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Shreds of these hoards can now be picked over in provincial brocante shops , brave remnants of another , more confident age . ) |
| 2 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 3 | Fully one-third of the marketable federal debt is rolled over in any year ; half is rolled over every two years . |
| 4 | Elsewhere , equities boiled over in spectacular fashion . |
| 5 | FOSTER FURY : Essex 's paceman boiled over in dramatic fashion |
| 6 | They 'll be flown over in one of the biggest movements of horses ever . |
| 7 | The relationship between Government educationists and villagers was a political one , and created the seeds of resentment and conflict that eventually spilled over in 1979 with the overthrow of the Shah . |
| 8 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 9 | Following the establishment of the motor museum , part of the main block was turned over in 1984 to the ‘ Village Life Exhibition ’ . |
| 10 | That is something that can be argued over in specific instances . |
| 11 | Handed over in 1939 by Its owners In response to an advertisement in The Times , Youth Allyah decided to use it as a transit camp for refugee children who were waiting for permanent hachshara . |
| 12 | The rest were to be handed over in 1989 and 1990 with Mr Gillespie being paid £318,750 on each occasion . |
| 13 | But it was all hazed over in endless mists of blue . |
| 14 | Fifty-three were the sons of MPs ( 18 per cent , much like the 17 per cent of Liberals ) and twelve of these sat for the same seat , although few like Stanley Baldwin succeeded directly ; fifteen of these fifty-three were sons of Liberals , further evidence of the value of recruits brought over in 1886 . |
| 15 | I was nearly run over in New Palace Yard after the vote by the surge of Jaguars roaring out of the carpark and off to the country for the weekend . |
| 16 | Turkey Mill dates partly from the eighteenth century , having been taken over in 1740 by James Whatman , a name famous for high-quality papers , especially for artists . |
| 17 | Surging mergers and acquisitions — £21 billion ( $33 billion ) worth of British companies were taken over in 1989 , compared with £6.3 billion five years earlier . |
| 18 | Several old dwelling houses adjoined Ivamys but at the Guilder Lane corner was a small shop , taken over in 1922 by a Lancashire family called Farrer . |
| 19 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |
| 20 | BOOMERANG : Far from New Man Eddie Murphy gets his just desserts when his firm is taken over in this poor star vehicle . |
| 21 | 3 ( 2 ) BOOMERANG : Love-them-and-leave-them adman Eddie Murphy gets his come-uppance when his firm is taken over in this star vehicle . |
| 22 | It was surely only people of diminished responsibility who found their lives being taken over in this way . |
| 23 | THE RE-OPENING of the line to Welshpool in 1981 was an achievement which had been awaited ever since the line was taken over in 1960 . |
| 24 | The work of the Hospital Advisory Service relating to mental handicap hospitals was taken over in 1975 by a new body at the DHSS , the Development Team for the Mentally Handicapped . |
| 25 | The building , originally opened in 1899 as the Great Central Hotel , was taken over in 1949 by the British Transport Commission as its headquarters . |
| 26 | Currys was taken over in 1984 , two years before the unsuccessful £1.8billion bid for Woolworths . |
| 27 | The ‘ deterrent ’ compounds of many rain-forest plants are used ( and have been fought over in major wars ) by humans to flavour food , e.g. cinnamon ( bark of Cinnamomum verum , Lauraceae ) , tea ( alkaloids and tannin of Camellia sinensis , Theaceae ) leaves , ginger ( rhizome of Zingiber officinale , Zingiberaceae ) and seeds such as nutmeg ( Myristica fragrans , Myristicaceae ) , cardamom ( Elettaria cardamomum , Zingiberaceae ) , and coffee ( Coffea arabica , Rubiaceae ) , and cloves ( flower buds of Syzygium aromaticum , Myrtaceae ) . |
| 28 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 29 | The colleges of South Kensington were involved in this along with other groups which , unfortunately , are passed over in this account . |
| 30 | There was danger , too , underfoot : the path had been ploughed over in many places and here and there were lumps of frozen earth covered with snow , and slippery . |