Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] over [art] [noun] " 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 | Among the tepid metal and tile of the locker room , or slumped over the paper cups and coffee balloons of the commissary-Johnny 's there , with unspeakable skidmarks all over his smock . |
| 3 | What happens when you introduce something new to his familiar environment — for example , placing a brightly coloured cloth or jacket on the paddock fence , or hung over the pole of a small jump . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But there are also thousands of people walking around in a semi-drugged state day after day because they are in the habit of taking tablets , whether prescribed or bought over the counter . |
| 6 | Despite the deficiencies in the present system we believe that child resistant closures should be used now for all medicines whether dispensed or bought over the counter . |
| 7 | It is well settled that such a grant or demise will … impliedly confer on the grantee or lessee … easements over the land retained corresponding to the continuous or apparent quasi-easements enjoyed at the time of the grant or demise by the property granted or demised over the property retained … |
| 8 | The arguments for and against their management styles seem likely to be won or lost over the brandy and cigars at dinners before tomorrow 's monthly meeting of the BBC board . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've put Mr Trumper 's things in the bedroom and checked over the flat . |
| 11 | a fiery fellow ( the salamander was popularly supposed to be able to live in fire ) ; also , a circular iron plate which is heated and placed over a pudding or other dish to brown it ( OED ) . |
| 12 | Half-way along it , Ember whipped round to yell , ‘ Go , Jez ! ’ and vaulted over the hand-rail . |
| 13 | The man burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter to snatch £90 in cash . |
| 14 | Police issued the photofit of a man who burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The message Macedo carried to the villages — most of them accessible only by boat or along tortuous jungle trails and scattered over an area larger than England — was that the forest 's people should , in uniting , take control of their own destiny . |
| 18 | Chunks of blue-green stuff flaked off and scattered over the floor . |
| 19 | ‘ The average number of vehicles passed through the shops for repairs annually is 8,100 … . there are 3,200 employed at Wolverton , while outside we have 2,000 at Crewe , Carlisle and Willesden , and scattered over the line ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That battle had been fought and won over the Beveridge report . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | To give a suitably ‘ thick ’ appearance to the painted plaster surface applied over the new brickwork of the chimney , ‘ Sirapite ’ plaster was mixed with wallpaper paste and smeared over the overprecise profiles of the new work . |
| 26 | The criteria for listing have changed and broadened over the years to include more Victorian buildings and , subsequently , more twentieth-century buildings . |
| 27 | ‘ If Alain was murdered and pushed over the edge the way I figured , then it could easily have been torn off . |
| 28 | The Prosecution alleges that it was here , on a night in November two years ago that Pauline Leyshon and her boyfriend Ivor Stokle were bundled into a car which was then set alight and pushed over the edge of the hill . |
| 29 | There the court heard they were forced into a car which was set alight and pushed over the edge . |
| 30 | 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 . |