Example sentences of "be [vb pp] over in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each month 's results are picked over in the business 's board meeting , with a head-office manager present in a non-executive role . |
| 2 | If , for instance , you are pushed over in the playground , would it be all right to push the aggressor in return ? |
| 3 | A third defendant , Keith Bunting , 23 , of Ashley Road , Dovercourt , denies using threatening or insulting behaviour and resisting arrest while a fourth , Damon Wait , 17 , of Victoria Road , Dovercourt , agreed to be bound over in the sum of £50 to keep the peace for 12 months . |
| 4 | This concept has played the leading role in the development of the modern law but the question of definition has tended to be passed over in the cases with little analysis . |
| 5 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
| 6 | Ponds were frozen over in the London parks and a thin but icy fog concealed the raw branches of the winter trees . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Knives and forks clattered down and forms were kicked over in the uproar which followed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A production assistant hot-footed it round to Camera 3 's position and came through with : ‘ Jeez , boss , three 's crook — he 's fell over in the heat . ’ |
| 12 | She says he 's er he 's fell over in the , you know , and er , he he 's al , he were always running , he gets on left side onto us runs to this corner , calls out to the missus |
| 13 | The second CD is given over in the main to what I think of as Mark Goodier bands ( not a breath of criticism implicit in that , by the way ) . |
| 14 | The general effect is taken over in the first red-figure ( fig. 87 ) ; but the black line which replaces incision is drawn with a brush , so by nature more malleable and fluid . |
| 15 | The loftier tone of these words blends with a certain tendency to affectation ( the gallicism gants de Suede ) , and to euphemism ( payment is referred to by terms and remuneration , the child 's ill-health is glossed over in the noun weakness and the negative phrase " not robust " ) . |
| 16 | About a quarter of exchequer support is paid over in the form of specific or supplementary grants . |
| 17 | Stone carvings and whimsies had been plastered over in the nineteenth century , but some had now been uncovered . |
| 18 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |