Example sentences of "was [adv] over [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The game was effectively over by the interval , with Celtic having built up a four-goal lead through Graham Nichols ( 2 ) , Kevin Messenger and Tom Shepherd .
2 He had thought it was all over for the Bookman and that the acid had not worked .
3 THEY thought it was all over at the BBC 21 years ago when they switched off the most famous football commentating voice of all , Kenneth Wolstenholme .
4 it was all over at the start of the second half … it took Millwall just 17 seconds and ten touches to win the game …
5 Even with more time lost , it was all over before the last hour .
6 The collapse of the Empire in 1814 and the fall of Napoleon I brought about a dispersal of the Imperial House and although the return of Napoleon from Elba in 1815 led to a restoration of the family fortunes , it was all over in the Hundred Days .
7 It was all over in the 10th .
8 As the fighting was apparently over by the time he attended the German emperor Conrad II 's imperial coronation in Rome in March 1027 , the most likely year for Holy River therefore seems to be 1026 , or conceivably , if operations were protracted , 1025 .
9 The court held that the theft was not over by the time the lady was tied up .
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