Example sentences of "they have been [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 2 | On the fifteen-mile drive , they had been instructed over the radio to stop on the outskirts of St Petersburg , where the woman was transferred to an unmarked car . |
| 3 | In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops . |
| 4 | Copeland found that more tubers were infected after they had been passed over an elevator digger which was lifting stocks of heavily infested tubers . |
| 5 | They have been revised over time — usually downwards — and they vary significantly from country to country . |
| 6 | They have been targetted over recent years . |
| 7 | By contrast , I make it clear that Labour believes it is right and just and should be the first priority for pensioners to get an increase of £5 a week for a single pensioner and £8 a week for a married couple , given the mean and miserable way in which they have been treated over the past decade . |
| 8 | You might think the only safe course is straightforward , sound , economic government and you might wonder therefore why so rarely in recent years Governments have practised it , except when they have been hit over the head by external forces and events that they could n't resist . |