Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] over in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ponds were frozen over in the London parks and a thin but icy fog concealed the raw branches of the winter trees . |
| 2 | Brothers Ernest and Michael Robinson of Thompson Grove , Hartlepool , were bound over in the sum of £100 to keep the peace for six months after a fight with another man in York Road . |
| 3 | Knives and forks clattered down and forms were kicked over in the uproar which followed . |
| 4 | The entire ‘ BRIDGES ’ section fell on top of a bunch of frantic pupils and Tock and his protective case were knocked over in the confusion . |
| 5 | As a production of the Ministry of Town Planning much of its message clearly trespassed on the domain of the Ministry of Transport , so that it was scarcely surprising that some intractable transport problems were glossed over in the euphoria for a brave new world . |
| 6 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 7 | The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it . |
| 8 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |