Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shot hit the upright but Swindon , encouraged , at last began to make an impression and Bolton survived a narrow squeak as Simpson 's powerful effort was tipped over by a leaping Felgate . |
| 2 | But video installation calls the viewer into spatial relationship with the object , a relationship carried over into a sculptural understanding of even single monitor works . |
| 3 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 4 | Lissa drew her robe around herself in a protective gesture , her mind frozen over like a bleak winter landscape . |
| 5 | The result was that when impatience to reach out to the peasantry boiled over into a significant movement in the early 1870s there was minimal planning and organization . |
| 6 | Moreover , many of the issues have spilled over in a marked renewal of interest in the state in the last twenty years . |
| 7 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 8 | Or should development be given over to a broad church of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of architects working in a number of complementary styles ? |
| 9 | Every Thursday is given over to a drop-in day , which is open to the previous year 's group to come back or to any girl on home-teaching , and sometimes girls from three or four years back may also drop in for a chat or advice . |
| 10 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) came to believe , after studying these frescoes intensively , that the West Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth in particular was given over to a whole programme of initiation rites and ordeals . |
| 11 | For the rest of the week it is given over to a different selection : good second-hand clothes , useful but redundant household articles , outgrown children 's toys plus almost anything that someone no longer needs and someone else might use . |
| 12 | But the walls themselves were constructed with an infill of mud bricks , set in mud mortar , and smoothed over with a beautiful mud plaster . |
| 13 | The booby-trapped tin was handed over at a nearby checkpoint after the woman , dressed all in black , smiled and wished the soldiers a happy Christmas . |
| 14 | Money for clients therefore should normally be handed over at a pre-arranged appointment in the office setting ( it is recognised that home helps may collect pensions for housebound elderly clients ) . |
| 15 | For the past five years members of the Durham Concert Secretaries Federation have held fund-raising events on behalf of the Wareham Wood Memorial Fund for cancer relief and the latest cheque was handed over at a special ceremony at Osborne Social Club , Chester-le-Street . |
| 16 | So the flask was handed over to a nice woman who would fill it with soup , probably ‘ potage de Jean-Claude speciale au tomat de can ’ , in the morning . |
| 17 | Most difficult to resolve in the struggle for jurisdiction over clerks who were charged with crimes was whether they could be tried twice , as clause three of the royal Constitutions of Clarendon ( 1164 ) outlined , first in the king 's court and then in the church court , and whether , if found guilty , they should be handed over to a civil court for the passing of the sentence . |
| 18 | In a statement the W.Midlands Regional Health Authority said they needed vacant possession for the property to be handed over to a private housebuilder for development . |
| 19 | This led to doubt as to the effectiveness of the decree , which also ordered the colony 's property to be handed over to a Methodist church , even though much of it had been sold to individual members of the colony , who were not themselves to be subject to specific government action . |
| 20 | But peasants also complained when what they called ‘ doctors ’ came out to inspect their cattle and sanitary arrangements , or when two peasants who had murdered their wives had to be handed over to a visiting ‘ social court ’ ( obshchestvennyi sud ) set up by a shefstvo team . |
| 21 | Three thousand tabs of Ecstasy were handed over for a thick wad of notes . |
| 22 | Above left : Large silk bows adorned with trailing gold stars are watched over by a golden cherub and help to liven up the staircase |
| 23 | When I arrived at the course , there they were in a rack being watched over by a young man , who , in turn , placed them in a buggy . |
| 24 | Eventually , they came to a large set of steel doors , watched over by a single guard . |
| 25 | What had happened in Dungannon , he suggested , was no different from what had happened in Prague : ‘ We ordinary people have been walked over by a militant force . ’ |
| 26 | When everyone is happy with the page , the metal is wheeled over to a large proofing press , which makes a positive impression of very high quality . |
| 27 | I dropped my right wing suddenly as if I were turning into the cloud and immediately swung over into a steep left hand turn . |
| 28 | ‘ This area is to be gone over with a fine tooth-comb . |
| 29 | The room was already warm and the furniture shone as if all the pieces had been gone over with a damp cloth . |
| 30 | Frances Maidment has vivid memories of the day she was run over by a stolen car . |