Example sentences of "been [verb] over [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the monks were thrown out of Prague in 1954 , the cloisters of the monastery have been given over to a display of Czech illuminated manuscripts , printing techniques and modern literature . |
| 2 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 3 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 4 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 5 | What had happened in Dungannon , he suggested , was no different from what had happened in Prague : ‘ We ordinary people have been walked over by a militant force . ’ |
| 6 | The narrator , returning to the box shortly afterwards , finds that the signalman has been run over by a train . |
| 7 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |
| 8 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 9 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 10 | The room was already warm and the furniture shone as if all the pieces had been gone over with a damp cloth . |
| 11 | ‘ One moment he 's on cloud nine , and now when I tell him all that 's gone on he 'll feel as though he 's been knocked over by a juggernaut . |
| 12 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |
| 13 | The popular explanation of his condition was that his mother , in late pregnancy , had been knocked over by a runaway circus elephant , and the shock had imprinted itself on the unborn child . |
| 14 | To my dismay , the whole entrance to Clonmacnoise had been concreted over in a multi-lane car park that was almost totally empty . |
| 15 | have been taken over with a vengeance and put into the anthropological perspective which in the poem Eliot has applied to so much past literature . |
| 16 | In the open intellectual milieu where Catholic exegetes and theologians now move among colleagues of other traditions of faith or of none , the traditional term ‘ hermeneutics ’ ( the art and the principles of interpretation ) has been taken over for a mode of philosophical discussion so technical that its products are usually baffling even to a well-educated reader . |
| 17 | Parts of it have been taken over for a secondary motor road , but much of it remains remote and quiet , rarely disturbed by a human voice . |
| 18 | Spitalfields , once a wholesale fruit and vegetable market , has been taken over as a leisure venture with around 200 stalls selling crafts and bric-a-brac plus sporting attractions in a covered area larger than Covent Garden . |
| 19 | Nelson 's column unexpectedly has now been taken over by a large , bearded Welshman , called Davydd . |
| 20 | Struggling Second Division Wigan Athletic have been taken over by a London-based consortium . |
| 21 | Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl . |
| 22 | Of course the company did n't pay any dividend , and has now been taken over by a firm making china and porcelain goods . |
| 23 | The work of fostering and supporting such groups has now been taken over by a national organization called Cope , which works closely with local social services departments and adult education departments to spread the approach across the country . |
| 24 | It had been taken over by a new contingent of tourists . |
| 25 | Perhaps the company has been taken over by a larger group which is not interested in building it tip . |
| 26 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |
| 27 | Or rather the house in Mouncy Street had been taken over by a succession of dead bodies . |
| 28 | Has been taken over by a stagecoach . |