Example sentences of "been [verb] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restart cyclamen corms that have been resting over the summer . |
| 2 | A preheated cupping glass would then have been placed over the wound and the cooling action of the air inside would have produced a vacuum capable of sucking the blood out . |
| 3 | Amongst other things , we were always finding used syringes that had been lobbed over the wall . |
| 4 | Sir , — I have been puzzling over the purpose of P. Cowan 's ‘ Democracy ’ letter . |
| 5 | Doctors have been puzzling over the cause of acne for many years and trying to find a cure . |
| 6 | He had been admonished over the incident , which happened in August 1991 near his home . |
| 7 | A great deal of ink has been spilled over the nature of indirect duties , to which I will return in the next section . |
| 8 | But the German church now supported the rival Alexander , as they had not been consulted over the appointment of Paschal . |
| 9 | It should have been completed over the weekend . |
| 10 | A man had been walking over the ground outside . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , Boyo , it 's either this or that , ’ said Taff , pointing to the alternative — a large piece of meat that had been roasted over a fire and looked most unappetising . |
| 12 | According to colleagues , whose judgment of distance had been honed over a day spent working on yardage charts , the sliver of wood was four centimetres long . |
| 13 | He has one of them , the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security . |
| 14 | That respect has been earned over the space of a 39- year career with the firm which has seen Grants take its Glenfiddich brand and turn it from a regional tipple in the north-east of Scotland into Britain 's and the world 's leading single malt . |
| 15 | About nine that morning a German pathfinder had been reported over the Firth of Forth . |
| 16 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Thousands of pounds have been collected over a number of years , resulting in items of new equipment that have each been featured in previous issues of Glenpatrick News . |
| 19 | This amount had been collected over the winter , with the proceeds of a weekly raffle also being added to the bottle . |
| 20 | I was disappointed that the water-wheel had gone — the kitchen had been built over the pit which had housed it . |
| 21 | ‘ He 'd been slumped over the freezer for some minutes before anyone realised anything was wrong , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , some 730 ‘ cables ’ had been transmitted over the line and so Field and his colleagues had proved that a transoceanic cable was not only feasible , but could also take a great deal of traffic . |
| 23 | ‘ One telephone call which could easily have been faked from any phone box , a letter which no one outside the family has seen , and a pay-off which will supposedly take place once arrangements have been made over a telephone number they refuse to disclose . |
| 24 | A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ . |
| 25 | No decision has been made over a youth coach , a position Hankin held before his sudden promotion to the manager 's office . |
| 26 | Stanley is obviously worried that his wife has been cheated over the sale of Belle Reve . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The cover had been zipped over the top of them . |
| 29 | Here and there water had fretted the walls into tracery , which glittered as the spear-light slid across it ; elsewhere , colours had been washed over the rock in a shifting mingle of greens , blues and reds . |
| 30 | They were standing by the desk in the library , where Theda had been going over the household accounts when the lawyer arrived , Hector , his wound still troublesome , laying at her feet . |