Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early spring , Peckham will meet the health minister , William Waldegrave , to present him with a set of firm plans developed over the past months . |
| 2 | There are simple spinelets scattered over the dorsal surface of the disk although they are often rubbed off in preserved specimens . |
| 3 | When I looked carefully I could see lots of orange fragments scattered over the sodden grass and glistening brown earth of the field . |
| 4 | He wore a gold watch on his wrist ; fine , gold hairs curled over the white , nylon strap . |
| 5 | He was keeping his head pointed firmly downwards , but he could feel a disresonance and his eyes searched over the stencilling shading of rock , scrub and moor . |
| 6 | She gasped as his lips closed over the taut mound of her breast , her body sensitised , waiting , begging for his caress . |
| 7 | The girls were now too close to their exam , too anxious to do more than lift their faces to him , but out of the tiredness and filth of lime he could be seen looking often at their heads bent over the lamplit pages in what looked close to melancholy and sunken reflection . |
| 8 | While the Blackpool cars ventured over the ex-Company tracks as far as the Cabin , soon after the Gynn junction was completed , it was not until 1926 that double-deckers reached Bispham . |
| 9 | Some accounts also suggest that these waves swept over the low-lying parts of St Pierre , near the waterfront , causing some damage and casualties . |
| 10 | Repeat the process for squares 91 to 135 then 136 to 180 and you will have the first 38 rows of squares printed over the full 180 needles , complete with your colour key . |
| 11 | A GRE spokesman said the changes were not in reaction to the losses incurred over the past three years , as the life business had remained profitable . |
| 12 | He stood with the carving implements poised over the ruined saddle . |
| 13 | In the darkness ( for obvious reasons , approach marches were usually made at night ) the columns trampled over the howling wounded that lay underfoot . |
| 14 | At West Croydon , the wires crossed over the main road into Station Road and terminated in a loop at a triangular widening at the entry to St. Michael 's Road , opposite the old station building . |
| 15 | Who could deny the passions stirred by that spectacle , let alone the emotions generated over the only way to view the tournament from the UK ? |
| 16 | Secondly , the phrases extended over the entire utterance thus causing a potential combinatorial explosion of partial interpretations at higher levels of processing . |
| 17 | Success in biomedical careers has long been associated with authorship of publications in peer reviewed journals , and this association may partly explain the exponential increase in the number of articles published over the past two decades . |
| 18 | They were full of movement , the maids , but the strange girl was as still as a hunting cat , her fingers closed over the cheap pin and her eyes open now . |
| 19 | * Based on unit costs spread over the whole year . |
| 20 | For me , the moment of realisation that something more must be done to identify the aggressor and to hold him to account came last week , when I was invited to open an exhibition of photographs at the building centre in Store street , London , of some of the Croatian buildings destroyed over the past few months . |
| 21 | Two rivers enter the loch : the River Inver , coming down amongst trees from the hills behind , has a pleasant path alongside much used by anglers , with fishing platforms built over the rushing waters . |
| 22 | Eventually all the machines manufactured over the past 30 years were divided by the CCITT into three groups , imaginatively designated as Groups One , Two and Three . |
| 23 | But perestroika came late to the Soviet Academy of Sciences , and the reforms introduced over the past two years have yet to take effect . |
| 24 | Some of the coins found over the past month . |
| 25 | The girl let go of my hand and moved away into the gloom behind me , where she must have put the screwed-up five-pound notes on to the chest of drawers with the magazines , the small framed photograph , the towel , the box of paper tissues , the jar of Vaseline , the baby 's dummy and all the other odds and ends spilled over the varnished oak top . |
| 26 | An even larger protest was held the following year when 10,000 people gathered , many of them climbing a staircase of straw bales built over the ten-foot high barbed wire fence around the site . |
| 27 | This was not a controlled trial but a retrospective assessment of the patients seen over the previous seven years . |
| 28 | They argue that isotopic variations in lavas produced over the past 100 million years by the Kerguelen mantle plume require a cycle time of much less than a thousand million years . |
| 29 | How many weekday trains run over the complete Central Wales line ? |
| 30 | The school librarian is provided with a monthly total of items borrowed over the previous two years and a running total of items on loan to each year group . |