Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] over [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 2 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 3 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role X/Open will play . |
| 4 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role that X/Open will play . |
| 5 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 6 | Some sociologists have researched ‘ counter school ’ youth cultures , and how they are naturally carried over onto the shopfloor . |
| 7 | Within fifty years the area was entirely built over with a population of nearly 70,000 . |
| 8 | Everything that has gone before is apprenticeship ( especially the thirteen thousand words or uncharacteristically slapdash prose inadvertently handed over to a person whose only chance of later fame lies in the possibility of aspiring to the status of a footnote in the scholarly biography of my life and work which someone , even now , is probably contemplating ) . |
| 9 | An opinion was expressed that such a purchaser under a suspensory condition ( that the money be only handed over on the certificate being got by the purchaser ) is not necessarily committing a violation of the Act , " assuming that he shows proper diligence in endeavouring to obtain the certificate , and is acting throughout in bona fide " : per Lord Trayner , ibid . |
| 10 | Voices were suddenly raised over in the crowd and people began scattering to the edges of the area , clearing the centre and falling silent . |
| 11 | Bothwell Castle , Uddingston , is the largest and finest 13th-century stone castle in Scotland , much fought over during the Wars of Independence . |
| 12 | Around Remagen you cross from Westphalia into the Pfalz , the old Palatinate , so much fought over in the Thirty Years War . |
| 13 | But the bike is only cranked over for an instant before the Australian wrenches it upright and turns on the throttle . |
| 14 | Some members of the Committee did raise the problem of the ‘ long-term costs to the community ’ likely to be brought about by the closure of Village school , but this objection was apparently passed over with no request for clarification , consultation , or serious study of the problem . |
| 15 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 16 | The place has all the appropriate externals , chimneys choked with ivy , windows with jasmine , worm-eaten shutters , mossy thatch , all of which ‘ under the quiet light of a sky marbled with high clouds would have made a sort of picture which we have all passed over as a ‘ charming bit ’ , touching other sensibilities than those which are stirred by the depression of the agricultural interest , with the sad lack of farming capital , as seen constantly in the newspapers of that time ’ . |
| 17 | The Antipodean visitor was VH–AQJ/A17–26 , which had been especially crated over to the UK for the event and was expected to spend about a month or so in the country before returning home . |
| 18 | One 's grant disappeared into a bottomless sea of cigarettes and beer with hardly enough left over for the books we were meant to read . |
| 19 | That would mean she could buy eggs for supper and pay something on the grocery bill and have enough left over for the vet . |
| 20 | It belonged almost in its entirety to Kenneth Horne , around whom the show was built , but there was enough left over for the supporting players , Betty Marsden , Hugh Paddick , Bill Pertwee and Ken , all of whom built up their own individual following . |
| 21 | There was enough left over in the 5lb bag to give most of the plot another top dressing last month . |
| 22 | I was less bowled over by the disc of Rutter 's own compositions , including his setting of the Magnificat , in which the Cambridge Singers are joined by the City of London Sinfonia , The Falcon , which adds the Choristers of St Paul 's Cathedral , and Two Festival Anthems . |
| 23 | The result was the meaty and woolly Southdown sheep , whose extensive use kept the local downland primarily as pasture , unlike chalkland elsewhere , which was largely given over to the plough in the later eighteenth century . |
| 24 | If only Oliver had not fallen over on the path he would not have gone to spend the night with Marjorie and Mr Sargent . |
| 25 | The battle for political supremacy was thus carried over to the Congress itself . |
| 26 | Even those of us in the office who had their doubts at first were soon won over by the instrument 's simplicity and friendliness . |
| 27 | His place of birth , Montona near Trieste , was one day just handed over to the Communists and became a part of Yugoslavia . |
| 28 | Elisabeth had not walked over to the Villa with the other guests , but lagged behind . |
| 29 | There are others who are n't even dancing : one who has just gone over to the veranda and plunged his hand into the vat of boiling oil so he could offer a hot puri to a child in tears : another who is standing in the midst of the dancers being continually buffeted as they come and go , and hungrily eating a plateful of raw rice grains . |
| 30 | stayed and Andy 's and we 'd just gone over to the shops and . |