Example sentences of "which [vb past] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most fundamental need was to increase the area of water by the provision and enlargement of wet-docks and basins , the total acreage of which doubled over the last quarter of the eighteenth century as a prelude to a much greater expansion between 1800 and 1830 . |
| 2 | The war , which arose over the two countries ' rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea , was widely regarded in Russia as the product of intrigue at court and among a handful of entrepreneurs , and aroused little patriotic enthusiasm . |
| 3 | Most notable among them were a Louis XVI ormolu-and-Wedgwood porcelain mounted clock thermometer and its companion barometer-thermometer attributed to Adam Weisweiler ( est. $150–200,000 ) which sold to a telephone bidder for $250,000 ( £138,900 ) and an amusing pair of painted jeux de loto ( essentially eighteenth-century bingo cards in their holders ) , which sold over the telephone for $60,000 ( £33,300 ) ( est. $20–30,000 ) . |
| 4 | He rode the rocking-horse , which moved over the lawn without effort . |
| 5 | The outer layer of the Earth was seen as consisting of a rigid lithosphere , composed of several ‘ plates ’ , which moved over the underlying more mobile asthenosphere . |
| 6 | As regards the US domestic market , these changes in profitability are opposite to those of concentration , which rose over the period . |
| 7 | Look back at any crises which occurred over the last few years . |
| 8 | The 54-year-old monster , which towered over the garden , was cut down on television by professional contractors , who safely lowered its limbs one be one . |
| 9 | Out of every hundred aircraft which ventured over the border , eighty-seven returned safely . |
| 10 | PARIS — The pilot of the UTA DC10 which exploded over the Sahara desert on 19 September , killing all 171 people on board , had previously complained of lax security on the Libreville to Paris route , according to a report in Le Canard Enchaine , writes Patrick Marnham . |
| 11 | A RUGBY fan broke her leg after ending up at the bottom of a ruck which spilled over the sideline . |
| 12 | Eric Cantona went as close as anyone when he tried a 40 yard lob which sailed over the goalkeeper 's head only to hit the bar and bounce into the grateful arms of Dmitri Kharine . |
| 13 | It was a dignity which triumphed over the unsightliness of the long upturned hooves , the fleshless ribs , the broken-down udder almost brushing the cobbles . |
| 14 | The Woman turned , pulling the whole of the little group round with her so that they faced the house , towards the mirror which hung over the sofa . |
| 15 | There was a bar selling alcoholic drinks and two milk bars , one at floor level , one in what had once been the balcony , and a huge multi-faceted glass ball which hung over the dance floor . |
| 16 | Tea had been laid in the blue drawing room , a vast room dominated by two huge chandeliers and an enormous portrait of Henry VIII after Holbein , which hung over the fireplace . |
| 17 | The rain slowed to a fine drizzle which hung over the countryside like a dirty curtain . |
| 18 | Harriet gave him her portrait , which hung over the chimney-piece at Croisset ; but it was of Gertrude that he was fonder . |
| 19 | Out here he fog bank which hung over the city had thinned to non-existence . |
| 20 | Matthew had acquired a tank which trundled over the carpet emitting small but sharp percussive explosions accompanied by a shower of sparks . |
| 21 | Hopes that harvesting which started over the weekend would continue , though , were thwarted by mid-week rain and a shortage of crops fully fit . |
| 22 | They set to sea in boats and cruisers ; one newspaper even hired a Lear jet , which flew over the area day after day . |
| 23 | Flag of the Irish Republic which flew over the GPO during the fighting . |
| 24 | The first Targa Florio was held on 6 May 1906 and that race , like all subsequent ones , was over a difficult and testing winding Sicilian course which varied over the years . |
| 25 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 26 | ‘ Love apples , ’ she had said to Mark , and the words ‘ love apple ’ had somehow given a name to the district , strange and different as it was from the rest of the parish which lay over the other side of the main road , far from the railway line . |
| 27 | Part of the track which went over the river Wey was supported by a ferro-concrete bridge — revolutionary in its day . |
| 28 | This is an ancient road , the middle one of the three Roman roads which went over the Pyrenees , though it is worth pursuing all the way to the frontier , in my view , only if you want to enter Spain ( the small , walled town of Jaca , half an hour or so 's drive down the other side , is extremely attractive ) . |
| 29 | This was the railway which crossed over the Corporation tramway just short of the Selby Road boundary . |
| 30 | He had rooms in the beautiful Pepys building , at the end which looked over the River Cam and across the river to some slum-like warehouses . |