Example sentences of "it [vb past] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , this performance measure is somewhat crude ; it measures whether the correct word was chosen or not , irrespective of the score or margin by which it succeeded over the other candidates . |
| 2 | That was , that , but it got over the main point of the story . |
| 3 | While it passed over the flat surface four hard pointed styli engraved the foil , sometimes in a continuous line and sometimes with a series of indentations , several times a second , each stylus responding to the quantity of the parameter concerned . |
| 4 | I was once on the ridge with my wife , taking photographs , when the silence was shattered suddenly by the scream of a low-flying jet aeroplane ; in a matter of seconds , it skimmed over the full length of the loch , rose a little in the upper valley and then appeared to turn sharply into the mountain wall , passing from sight and sound . |
| 5 | This morning the water was clear and silvery , chuckling a little as it lapped over the smooth , oval , brown stones . |
| 6 | It was admirably researched , hut it glossed over the important questions while pointing up the trivial ones . |
| 7 | Incidentally , the working pattern of these bodyguards , so it transpired over the following days , entailed one or the other of them going up to sleep at unusual hours so as to ensure at least one was on duty throughout the night . |
| 8 | It was a perfect summer dawn and the red flames matched the red disc of the sun as it rose over the misty hedges . |
| 9 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 10 | It was an Arctic blast screaming from the east , picking up extra degrees of cold as it drove over the frozen white surface . |
| 11 | The Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was discontinued since it was considered that the very marginal improvement that it had over the Standard programme was not worth the relatively more substantial increase in running costs . |
| 12 | As it banked over the Cambrian Mountains , the reservoir which featured in the first party political broadcast sparkled far below . |