Example sentences of "was [verb] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1950 it was devoting over a third of its space to sport with particular emphasis on football . |
| 2 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
| 3 | I think he 's , he 's like the other day when he was here he was talking about how he was turning over a new leaf and stuff . |
| 4 | A huge vat full of oil was bubbling over a monstrous bonfire and , bound hand and foot inside , stood a criminal being boiled to death . |
| 5 | I was doing over a hundred k.p.h. then through a miasma of mist , the Pacific glimmering opaquely away to our left and the light fading . |
| 6 | Somehow the virtual reality had overflowed the confines of that simulated chamber , and was taking over the entire broadcast . |
| 7 | I do n't think so because it 's in the main street called street and I was taken over the first day . |
| 8 | She slapped a handful of cold cream on her face and tissued off the exaggerated make-up she 'd worn for the showing , pulled her hair back into a ponytail , laced on her canvas sneakers , and stalked back to the showroom where Raimondo was hovering over a glowering Nicolo . |
| 9 | Under an agreement signed by Gqozo and South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , the South African government was to take over the key ministries of economic affairs , finance and justice and a fourth ministry concerned with agriculture , public works and transport . |
| 10 | This transformation provided the skeleton for the Christianity which was to take over the Germanic world , to mould it and modify it in turn . |
| 11 | He was to hand over the French Vexin ( as the remainder of Margaret 's dowry ) and endow Alice with Bourges . |