Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] over [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He described how the ladder was to be set up against the wire , how people were to clamber over and how they were to swing themselves clear through the gap at the end . |
| 2 | When Mr Wilson was elected to the leadership in 1963 , these doctrinal disputes were smoothed over and the Labour Party entered office in 1964 committed to a more rapid rate of growth , improved welfare benefits , more expenditure on schools , houses , roads and health and one major measure of public ownership — the renationalization of the steel industry . |
| 3 | It had been written for an age when wind was still the motive power for most of the world 's shipping , so that , though technically out of date , it was invaluable for some of the work I was doing , particularly wire splicing , and if we were rolled over and had to jury-rig the ship it would be a life saver . |
| 4 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 5 | The men lowered core moulds made of orange sand into the boxes , which were turned over and joined to boxes containing the other half of the moulds ( the bottom half was the drag , the top the cope — the first bit of jargon she had managed to master ) and moved forward on the track to the casting area . |
| 6 | The door came off a shed full of tools , and spades , even , were turning over and over ; while a flock of rods kept for wattling thrust through the air , cruel as arrows . |
| 7 | Then they were going over and they were gon na go to bed . |
| 8 | The two machines , one for Britain and one for France , were handed over and it was to be Bertrand 's responsibility to transport one to Paris and so on to London in the French diplomatic bag . |
| 9 | ‘ If you look at the family phone bills you will see the same numbers were dialled over and over again . |
| 10 | There was a time , let it ever be remembered , only about 400 years ago , when our fathers were ruled over and tyrannised and when men like Calvin , Knox , Cranmer , Ridley and Latimer broke rather than bend for the Gospel and liberty . |
| 11 | Of the companies traced , 40 have failed , another 22 were taken over and 22 are now quoted on Stock Exchange markets . |
| 12 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 13 | But the promotions appear not only to have brought resentment among officers who were passed over but also failed to overcome unrest at hardship caused by US sanctions . |
| 14 | I asked Brown Owl if we could sell the cakes that were left over and give the money to Blue Peter . |
| 15 | Now , as they shoved their way through the audience , two wooden chairs were knocked over and there were drawn breaths of outrage . |
| 16 | Departments ' spending plans , which were bargained over and eventually published in the annual public expenditure White Papers , were expressed in constant prices or ‘ volume terms ’ . |
| 17 | The next stage developed when the stalls were covered over and became permanent . |
| 18 | Hundreds of privately owned aircraft at Tamiami Airport were blown over and on top of each other , a parked DC–6 disappeared completely and was found over a mile away from its tie-down point on the Airport . |
| 19 | Inadequacies were glossed over and the focus of attention became the necessary defence of the revolutionary Soviet state , the guardian protector of peace , freedom and equality , currently threatened by a barbaric and expansionist fascist state . |
| 20 | This was vaulted over and the construction arches of the vault survive remarkably intact ( PLATE 38 ) . |
| 21 | And the engine man he was on his knees beside the engine the engine was sticking over and the officer was in charge watching when we was watching the boat coming towards the grating you know . |
| 22 | Loch Coire a'Mhuilinn was frozen over but crazed with cracks — a lonely spot which would make an evocative campsite . |
| 23 | Browns team member Stuart Redman , from East London , one of the first to discover the dead Fish , said : ‘ It was an awful sight , the canal was frozen over and a carp of 10 lb , bream to 2 lb , roach and a tench were lying dead on top . |
| 24 | On returning to his studio the drawing was turned over and he would go over the marks of the original drawing visible through the paper . |
| 25 | It was sung over and over during the parties . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll make it right , I 'll make it right , ’ Peter was whispering over and over . |
| 27 | The test-flight was postponed over and over again , as I hit a busy spell in work — and as usual the weather had its say in the proceedings . |
| 28 | When I was 12 , my great hero was Van Cliburn because he 'd just won the Tchaikovsky Competition , so he was invited over and played on my spinet . ’ |
| 29 | Discrimination against various groups in society was raised over and over again . |
| 30 | ‘ And anyway , Marius said this boy was coming over and he was going to draw up a new will , and would we witness it ? … ’ |