Example sentences of "run over by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On North went : ‘ I 'm really worried because I have the only copy and it 's in my safe , and I could cross the street tomorrow and get run over by a truck and so no-one would ever know . |
| 2 | But less than half a mile from his home in Witney , Oxfordshire , 42-year-old Mr Adams was knocked off his bike and run over by a van . |
| 3 | David Adams , 42 , was knocked off his bike and run over by a van driven by a suspected drink-driver as he made his way home . |
| 4 | In an instant the coldness of her fury evaporated and her heart was flooded with a tide of raw emotions — excitement , confusion and a desperate yearning that tore at her insides and left her breathless , as though she had been knocked to the ground and run over by a steam train . |
| 5 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 6 | The narrator , returning to the box shortly afterwards , finds that the signalman has been run over by a train . |
| 7 | I find it difficult to understand those who say they are planning for next year 's championships — what is the point , they could be run over by a bus before next year ? |
| 8 | The 41-year-old victim died instantly when he was run over by a Bedford van less than a mile from his home in Witney , Oxon . |
| 9 | ‘ It was pretty close for a while , but in the last two sets I got run over by a Mack truck , ’ said Navratilova , who told the crowd that next year will probably be her last year of competing on the tour as a singles player . |
| 10 | Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone . |
| 11 | PENSIONER Olive Smith was run over by a train — and escaped with just a small head cut . |
| 12 | What have drowning , suffocating , bleeding and being run over by a steam roller got in common ? |
| 13 | Now I have nothing against Terry as a person , although I do not think I would cross the road to help him if he were run over by a lorry , but that is neither here nor there . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For example , a collision between a pedestrian and a car is very likely to be described by a speaker as a boy being run over by a car , rather than as a car knocking a boy down . |
| 16 | I went to lunch with my mother , who told me giving birth was like being run over by a steamroller ; thanks for the reassurance , Mum . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It can be news of a member of the congregation 's promotion or someone 's marriage or — even better — someone being run over by a lorry , but there is always news . |
| 19 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 20 | One morning a person is found dead on the crossing as a result of being run over by a train . |
| 21 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 22 | An investigation has begun into the death of a woman run over by a coach . |
| 23 | Frances Maidment has vivid memories of the day she was run over by a stolen car . |
| 24 | A pensioner died in hospital after being run over by a car on the poorly lit Corporation Road , Redcar , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 25 | They they put him on the rail they tied him to the railway track so he 'd get run over by a train but I do n't think he did . |
| 26 | He gets run over by a truck . |
| 27 | He got run over by an articulated lorry . |
| 28 | What happens if you are run over by an iceberg ? |
| 29 | If either were run over by the proverbial bus , his replacement would carry on as before . |
| 30 | One farmer was killed when his tractor overturned ; another died when run over by the vehicle ; a third was crushed when the uncabbed tractor he was driving overturned ; and a fourth , a student home on holiday , died when thrown from the cab of his overturning vehicle . |