Example sentences of "[being] [verb] over by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes we went to the Cours Mirabeau and watched the debris from the daily market being picked over by the local dogs . |
| 2 | ‘ At the very least , ’ says Ian Hawkins ‘ it avoids their being crawled over by the competition . ’ |
| 3 | Derek Douane was being cooed over by a pair of predatory women in their fifties , not minding their tanned fingers in his hair , on his face or twanging his braces . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Labour consumer affairs spokesman Nigel Griffiths said : ‘ The Chancellor is being walked over by the manufacturers . |
| 6 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 7 | What have drowning , suffocating , bleeding and being run over by a steam roller got in common ? |
| 8 | For example , a collision between a pedestrian and a car is very likely to be described by a speaker as a boy being run over by a car , rather than as a car knocking a boy down . |
| 9 | I went to lunch with my mother , who told me giving birth was like being run over by a steamroller ; thanks for the reassurance , Mum . |
| 10 | It can be news of a member of the congregation 's promotion or someone 's marriage or — even better — someone being run over by a lorry , but there is always news . |
| 11 | One morning a person is found dead on the crossing as a result of being run over by a train . |
| 12 | A pensioner died in hospital after being run over by a car on the poorly lit Corporation Road , Redcar , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 13 | ‘ We built it up , it is our baby , ’ he said , adding that if the family allowed its interest to fall below 50 per cent it would risk being taken over by a hostile bidder . |
| 14 | In Modern Masterpiece there is the idea of people being taken over by a force greater than themselves and dancing themselves to death , and that seems to tie in a bit with what is going on |
| 15 | JAGUAR and General Motors were last night locked in crucial talks over a deal which would safeguard the luxury car maker from being taken over by the rival US motor giant Ford . |
| 16 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 17 | You never hear of groups being taken over by the drummer . |
| 18 | By the late twenties and early thirties , ‘ bus travel had taken over most of this lucrative Friday traffic ; Basfords of Towcester ran two ‘ buses and The Buckingham Orange did two return journeys from Buckingham with Jelley 's of Cosgrove , the latter two being taken over by the United Counties Bus Company in the mid-1930s . |
| 19 | As only the better-off members could afford the piece of silver , this can be seen as the first sign that the classless Society of Archers was being taken over by the wealthier members . |
| 20 | After being taken over by the Catuvellauni they had a right to expect some restoration of their territories . |
| 21 | It 's now being taken over by the new Historic Chapels Trust . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | An eight-year-old boy spent the weekend recovering after being knocked over by a car on Hollyhurst Road , Darlington . |
| 24 | She needed guts to face always being passed over by the boys for her gorgeous sister Gloria . |
| 25 | No one likes streets covered in dog excrement , or being bowled over by a powerful dog pulling on its leash . |