Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preindustrial aristocratic attitudes were carried over into an industrial age . |
| 2 | On Jan. 13 Azerbaijani anger boiled over into an anti-Armenian pogrom in Baku , when some 70,000 people at a rally in the city centre were told that an Armenian resident of the city had attacked two Azerbaijanis with an axe , killing one of them , when they came to evict him from his flat . |
| 3 | The paper is clipped together by firm bulldog clips at the top edge of the required piece of hardboard , so allowing the charts to be turned over in an upwards direction . |
| 4 | From 1969 the direction and administration of programmes was handed over to an African organisation ( SEPA ) with its headquarters in Accra , though training for Science Educators is offered under its auspices at Njala , Sierra Leone . |
| 5 | The cathedral was begun by Russian architects in 1471 but part of the building collapsed in the earthquake of 1472 so the work was handed over to an Italian architect and engineer , Aristotele Fioravanti from Bologna . |
| 6 | Bent over at an ungainly angle , trying to wrench the thing free , Bernice was acutely conscious of the picture that she must be making . |
| 7 | He got run over by an articulated lorry . |
| 8 | Sadat had ordered photographs of the Shah , left over from an earlier state visit , to be mounted along the route . |
| 9 | Two hundred and fifty workers at a factory recently taken over by an American company have been given their redundancy notices today . |
| 10 | French PABX manufacturer Barphone SA , which holds 25% of the French market for PABXs of less than 25 ports , has said it is close to being taken over by an un-named foreign industrial group . |
| 11 | Doyle had taken over from an unsuccessful coach and in no time had turned everything round . |
| 12 | Charity opened her mouth to say that a Mercedes was really not on her list of aspirations , but at that moment they approached a sharp twist in the path and were almost knocked over by an electric golf cart careening around it . |
| 13 | Japan has , for the last twelve hundred years and more , been reigned over by an imperial house which claims descent from the Yamato clan , whose control of the central part of Japan long predates written record . |
| 14 | The greater abundance of mare basalts on the maria , their smaller ages than most highland rocks , the possibility of deriving the highland type rocks and the mare basalts from a common source material in the mantle , and many other compositional relationships , are glossed over in an unsatisfactory manner . |