Example sentences of "had [vb pp] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 2 | The corrosion emanated from the joint between the bottom of the pressure dome and the fuselage and there was nicotine tar staining on the edge of the corroded area indicating that it had developed over a relatively long period . |
| 3 | Dr Bob Tait in presenting the cup complemented all the teams on the high standard of their project presentations which they had completed over a six week period . |
| 4 | And to Carole 's annoyance , Hyacinth Scragg had not turned up , despite the reminder she had received over a cup of tea at the conference centre . |
| 5 | It was important , for instance , to know how the salary profile of Company A or the age profile of Division B had altered over a particular period . |
| 6 | After Peter Russell had slotted over a neat dropped goal on the Dungannon 22 , McGarry , before going off with a nose injury swung the game again in Dungannon 's favour with his final penalty of the match . |
| 7 | For an instant he thought he had rolled over a stone protruding from the turf of the clearing , then he realised what it was and his heart leapt . |
| 8 | For Marx and Engels the French Revolution marked the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism , which had occurred over a century earlier in England during the civil war . |
| 9 | I had got over a particularly traumatic childhood and adolescence and looked set fair for a modicum of stability as an adult . |
| 10 | To pass the time , the conversation had ranged over a variety of topics , from sport to current affairs , then had finally settled after some time on shop-talk — inevitable when any group of cops got together anywhere in the world . |
| 11 | There , in the middle of nowhere , he found a copy of Tom Waits 's début album , Closing Time , which had melted over a disused railway track . |
| 12 | It was no longer that he had been a member of the murder gang , but that he had presided over a meeting of UDA officers in order to plan it . |
| 13 | Eisenhower had presided over a period of grim Cold War tension which he , like most Americans , believed had been caused by the ambitions of world communism . |
| 14 | In that capacity he had presided over a campaign against corruption , and more positively over a relaxation of the restrictions upon private trade and local government . |
| 15 | Following Barr 's ruling , Judge Marvin H. Shoob , who had presided over a criminal case arising from the BNL affair , criticized the Attorney General on the grounds that plea bargaining within the case had denied any opportunity to probe the affair fully and had left unanswered numerous crucial questions concerning the government 's role . |
| 16 | There , he had presided over a society only slightly less diverse than that of the Caucasus and had fostered its development without trespassing dangerously on local sensibilities . |
| 17 | Palladius had presided over an already organised congregation , probably along Ireland 's south-eastern coast . |
| 18 | The king withdrew in great weariness and exasperation of mind from his son 's manor of Kennington , where he had presided over an anxious council on Wales , and took refuge in mid-June in his castle of Berkhamsted , with only his intimate household about him . |
| 19 | Even though Turtons ' had selected their file indiscriminately from stock to do battle with the French champion , even though the French company had brought over a special engineer to manipulate their product while Turtons ' had picked a man at random from the Sappers and Miners at the Exhibition , the French file had been humiliated . |
| 20 | Six had minor gunshot wounds , the seventh had tripped over a fallen tree and broken an arm . |
| 21 | ( 18 ) About four months before the time I am writing of , my Lady had been in London , and had gone over a Reformatory … |
| 22 | This girl was too used to getting her own way , but now she had stepped over an invisible line and she did n't even know it . |
| 23 | One policeman from an area outside Easton once stated that he had ‘ sort of fixed it ’ for a lorry driver who had run over a lady 's leg because ‘ the lady was n't very nice but the lorry driver was dead on ’ ( FN 22/2/87 , p. 1 ) . |
| 24 | Christopher Hart told police he did not stop because he thought he had run over a cardboard box . |
| 25 | He told his girlfriend he thought he had run over a box . |
| 26 | He had drunk over a bottle and a half already but showed little outward sign of over-consumption , except for his accent curdling into a thicker Scots . |
| 27 | What was less obvious was the effect on the system as a whole , which had evolved over a long period of time influenced by a variety of political and economical pressures , and not necessarily in a methodical manner . |