Example sentences of "be [verb] [coord] [verb] over " in BNC.

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1 Clear direction has to be given and control over colleagues exercised .
2 All surrendered personnel of established Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces . "
3 ( iii ) The third paragraph of Robertson 's signal directed that " all surrendered personnel of established Jugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces !
4 And this might help to explain why Gen Robertson devoted such a significant part of his signal to the order that " all surrendered personnel of established Jugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces " .
5 This implies that Robertson 's response to Kirk 's querying of the definition of " Chetniks " had been to remove the term altogether , and simply to word his instruction in general terms that " all surrendered personnel of established Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Yugoslav forces . "
6 Toby checked carefully through the boarding annexe after school , and then there was nothing to be done but hand over to Hilary Frome .
7 When she demanded whether there were any suspicious circumstances he refused to be drawn and took over the questioning : ‘ Why did n't you say Ayling was here on Friday ? ’
8 A demolition site in a Wear Valley village is to be tidied and grassed over .
9 And so since that was going to be demolished and built over by a a housing estate anyway , we ripped it out and put it back down here .
10 Heysham Harbour , near Lancaster , will be the operating base from which the field will be supplied and maintained over its estimated 40 year life .
11 The value of A 2 will tell us whether or not the size of the polymer coil , which is dissolved in a particular solvent , will be perturbed or expanded over that of the unperturbed state , but the extent of this expansion is best estimated by calculating the expansion factor α .
12 Ministers are told any gifts worth more than £125 must be refused or handed over to the department .
13 It stood on a mossy hill , and was environed by an expanse of peat soil and many stacks of the dark-coloured fuel ; and in reaching it , many most forbidding sloughs had to be rounded and jumped over .
14 Even the ground is affected , and instead of producing food plentifully it has to be coaxed and sweated over .
15 His pupil , D'Eslon , formulated laws under which animal magnetism seemed to operate : it was a universal , continuous fluid , which was subtle in that it had an ebb and flow ; it was concentrated in the human body like a magnet ; and could be accumulated and communicated over a distance .
16 After the Reformation it was not unusual for these charnels to be cleared and taken over by prominent local families as their burial vault , as happened at Saffron Walden and Thaxted , both in Essex .
17 Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another .
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