Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A girl came in and tried to haggle over a nineteenth-century vase , but Rachaela told her Mrs Mantini fixed the prices fairly and never reduced items . |
| 2 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 3 | Ross , who 'd taken over the industrial empire founded by his father , Sir David Wyndham , had been planning to develop and broaden the company 's overseas operations . |
| 4 | Above him , the ward 's Christmas decorations looped in colours of green , red , silver , gold and white , and his elbow threatened to knock over a small ornamental tree hung with miniature packages . |
| 5 | On June 22 , West Germany agreed to restructure over a 14-year period a debt of DM3,000 million due for payment by March 1991 . |
| 6 | She had not walked a hundred metres before she tripped over a loose stone and went crashing over a steep overhang . |
| 7 | Time and again , they came upon heaps of white shard-like bones or tripped cursing over a trailing white , skeletal arm or leg protruding from its thin veil of soil . |
| 8 | It is believed the money allegedly went missing over a long period , dating back to last season 's Cup Final . |
| 9 | A crisis may won develop over the late arrival of the board 's evidence on the manufacture of the pressure vessel , which will house the reactor core . |
| 10 | However , the two cardinals who did take over the musical reforms the Pope 's young nephew Carlo Borromeo and Vitellozzo Vitellozzi were men of intelligence and culture . |
| 11 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 12 | The girls from the brothel had taken over a small back room . |
| 13 | Humans were still doing these jobs : the robots had taken over the skilled elements of the task . |
| 14 | As Eleanor 's husband Henry II had taken over the old claim of the Dukes of Aquitaine to be lords of Toulouse . |
| 15 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 16 | Mattan , who had taken over the yellow jersey from Lillywhite in Leicester on Saturday , started yesterday 33 seconds ahead of Lillywhite but had dropped to fourth place overall by the end of the day . |
| 17 | The explosions were now occurring in the area they had just evacuated , probably inflicting casualties on the British troops who had taken over the German trenches . |
| 18 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 19 | The simultaneous news that the Commander in Chief of the Army , von Brauchitsch , had been relieved of his duties and that Hitler himself had taken over the direct military leadership of the army , together with the undeniable fact that the German advance had come to a halt and the Soviet counter-attack close to Moscow could only be staved off with partial retreats , and , not least , the entry of the United States into the war , combined to produce the first major shock to the German population during the Second World War . |
| 20 | The museum had taken over the northern end of the building but the main hall of what had been Damiani 's factory , with its vaulted roof and tunnels , was in semi-derelict condition , leased on occasion to a firm of Iranian-born Jews who dealt in Persian art . |
| 21 | There was the young woman and her baby who had moved into the space above the coach-house , and there was the noisy couple from Luton who had taken over the empty servants ' quarters up the back stairs . |