Example sentences of "which [vb past] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lines of enquiry suggested themselves from reported material which had accumulated over the years on possible energy effects at ancient sites . |
| 2 | As compulsory state education absorbed the higgledy-piggledy assortment of church , charity and board grammar schools which had emerged over the 200 or so years of industrial Britain , the essentially utilitarian character of schooling was never quite extinguished . |
| 3 | The report blamed appalling living conditions and prejudice within the police and legal systems for the discrepancy , which had widened over the years . |
| 4 | It was regarded by the authorities as the latest stage of a blood-feud which had begun over the purchase of a house , and which had already in March resulted in three deaths [ see p. 38840 ] . |
| 5 | The gangs had already been selected to work on the other three small coasters which had arrived over the past weekend . |
| 6 | The confrontation was symbolic of the accelerating polarization which had occurred over the previous five years , with the Popular Front calling for a determined re-application of the policies of 1931–3 and the right for radical constitutional revision . |
| 7 | Trudging through the leaves which had drifted over the path , sniffing the keen autumnal air with its hint of smokiness , and feeling the sun on his face , Massingham felt a surge of animal well-being . |