Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] over [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sauce from Mr Bishop 's tomato ketchup bottles had been emptied out in great red gobs or smeared over the cupboards . |
| 2 | He is being honoured by an exhibition assembling the more than 300 paintings , sculptures and decorative artworks he has donated or promised over the years . |
| 3 | If adults are asked about their childhood , it seems highly likely that their memories will have become distorted or lost over the years , and that they will be coloured by the person 's present mood state , particularly by the existence of any psychiatric disorder . |
| 4 | While Dylan 's is the voice of death , despair , loss , wrack and ruin , Young 's call , seemingly polished and matured over the years , speaks of hope , regeneration and humility , reaching a peak on the heartbreaking beauty of ‘ Such A Woman ’ . |
| 5 | In Cambridgeshire , Jack Ravensdale has been able to show from documentary references how the village plans of Cottenham , Landbeach and Waterbeach have changed and developed over the centuries . |
| 6 | One tree in a school near Worcester has remained in its original position , while the buildings around it have been demolished and rebuilt over the centuries . |
| 7 | Outside the Barbican , the National Gallery is mounting ‘ Edvard Munch : the Frieze of Life ’ ( 12 November to 7 February ) which focuses on the cycle of paintings of that name which the artist codified and modified over the years . |
| 8 | The numerous fissures there , which came to be known as the Back Strings , represent these early excavations upon the vein outcrops , though they have been modified and deepened over the years . |
| 9 | Housed together under one roof from the early 1800s , and arranged and rearranged over the years ( but always with the Elgin Marbles at the centre ) , the collection was the raw material from which scholars wrought theories of the ‘ Progress of Antiquity ’ that culminated with the Ancient Greeks or , in direct opposition , that of cultural relativity accepted today . |
| 10 | The criteria for listing have changed and broadened over the years to include more Victorian buildings and , subsequently , more twentieth-century buildings . |
| 11 | Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that his approach to the Eighth Symphony has broadened and mellowed over the years , losing in the process much of its Russian accent and instead seeking out more refined , more purely musical nuances . |
| 12 | And is n't that just the case with everything you gone and done over the centuries of black oppression ? |
| 13 | It spilled from the safety deposit boxes and washed over the floors of the rooms . |
| 14 | Because of debts they are often forced to sell their land and therefore lose the means of livelihood that their family has known and understood over the generations . |
| 15 | Theresa rubbed her hands together to bring some life back into them and bent over the sheets of paper laid out on her work table , trying to forget the cold and concentrate on her designs . |
| 16 | I climbed up through one of the thirteen gates and clambered over the piles of collapsed masonry blocking the way to the top of the citadel . |
| 17 | The King 's horse , given all the conditions described above , could well have slipped and tumbled over the cliffs , taking his rider with him . |
| 18 | Deep tan , good body , jeans that were tight and bleached over the thighs but not looking like they were sprayed on . |
| 19 | Various other formats have come and gone over the years , but these are the ones which have become established and likely to remain for the foreseeable future . |
| 20 | Few people can appreciate Basil 's contribution for none of the present generation started with him in the County , and none of those who have come and gone over the years has ever had the same influence with the teachers for he had a diffidence and a modesty which helped then , a lot . |
| 21 | In fairness to the young girls who had come and gone over the years , he had deliberately picked well-stacked , dimwitted types whose only claim to fame was the fact that they were a good lay . |
| 22 | This resulted in the need for protective piers and breakwaters which required to be extended and strengthened over the years to allow further development . |
| 23 | A modern village hall was built in 1976 replacing a First World War army hut , originally purchased and maintained over the years by the Women 's Institute . |
| 24 | Concentrating on the poems themselves , she traces a network there , constantly reproduced and extended over the decades , of specifically female genital images . |
| 25 | He conquered the still-surviving British kingdom of Elmet ( HB ch. 63 ) and extended over the men of Lindsey ( among whom the missionary Paulinus baptized at Lincoln and Littleborough ( HE II , 16 ) ) , a lordship which must soon have come to embrace the Mercians north of the Trent and , no doubt by slower degrees , those south of it . |
| 26 | The present school , 1862 , has been greatly altered and extended over the years . |
| 27 | Formulated originally in the mid sixties for use in large commercial marine set-ups and improved over the years . |
| 28 | The white blanket rolled down the hillside and lapped over the roofs of the dwelling and outbuildings of the little farm . |
| 29 | Over the past six months or so you appear to have taken a leaf out of the Aquarian book and aired your grievances in such a manner that you now face the possibility of a complete break from the past , which in turn would alter so much you have built up and established over the years . |
| 30 | I was spellbound by the brass bedstead and all the knick-knacks , but what held my attention most were the knitted bedspreads that were on the bed and draped over the chairs . |