Example sentences of "it [vb past] over [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time warm air came from the south , hotting up as it passed over warm land . |
| 2 | New Zealand has another Irish pub — and it sold over 50 kegs of Guinness in its first three weeks , well ahead of any other beer it stocks . |
| 3 | A massive , grey stone Victorian building , it housed over 1600 inmates , twice its allotted amount . |
| 4 | and he made it , you see I mean i it cost over twenty years ago told me I think those were too small . |
| 5 | In 1988 , it attracted over 15,000 visitors ; in 1990 , more than 200 artists took part . |
| 6 | Isobel stepped out into the corridor , quiet except for the ever-present low murmur of the station 's output as it played over unobtrusive speakers . |
| 7 | Vienna , Virginia-based America Online Inc said that it added over 25,000 subscribers to its bulletin board service in the last month : Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has plans for the company . |
| 8 | Its success — when founded it claimed over 700,000 members — reflected the failure of conservative Republicans to bring Spanish Catholics into the bosom of the Republic . |
| 9 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 10 | The company said it shipped over 90,000 Sparc processors during the quarter , 57,000 of which were systems , the balance being upgrades and multiprocessors . |
| 11 | Derives its name from the central Persian village where it evolved over 200 years ago , and is a more delicate and sensuous variation of the mina-khani composition . |
| 12 | He had taken his jacket off ; it trailed over one shoulder , held in the hook of one finger . |
| 13 | Just 19 months later it achieved the dubious distinction of being the only Royal Commission to be wound up without producing a report when it collapsed over internal differences as to the scope of its report and how it should proceed . |
| 14 | So absurd was the idea to Weinberger that he seems never to have understood the hold it acquired over other people , including the President . |
| 15 | So much so that we took out insurance er if it went over twenty percent we were covered . |
| 16 | It took over 10 months to take a case through the ABTA conciliation and arbitration scheme and over a year through the one run by the Glass and Glazing Federation ( GGF ) . |
| 17 | The actions of Timex in Dundee exude an air of pre-meditation rather reminiscent of Rupert Murdoch 's at Wapping : even down to the fortified perimeter installed by the new management team after it took over 18 months ago . |
| 18 | Ferranti is now convinced that it was the victim of fraud perpetrated by International Signal and Control which it took over two years ago . |
| 19 | It took over two years of treatment and months of distress before 28-year-old Bethan Roberts found a cure for acne |
| 20 | WH SMITH has dropped its legal action against five directors it dismissed in August from Our Price Music , the record retailing chain it took over three years ago . |
| 21 | In Germany the most important aspect of the reorganisation of the foreign ministry after the war was the creation of a new department to foster and supervise foreign trade , the Aussenhandelstelle , so large that it occupied over 120 rooms . |
| 22 | It seems that the centre flourished and that by the early 1980s it had over 300 pupils and 31 part-time teachers . |
| 23 | It stretched over several hectares of land , its one-storied buildings lying bland and soulless under the surrounding hills . |
| 24 | This monster had eight heads and eight tails and was so long it stretched over eight hills and eight valleys . |
| 25 | None of their trees had been coppiced , so that knolls of tall beeches and huge , spreading oaks delayed the eye as it swept over rolling pastures and ploughed fields . |