Example sentences of "been [verb] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But if you look at their records they have been knocking over leading Test match sides in this way for years . |
| 2 | Sudden plagues of these creatures have been occurring over recent years which settle upon living reefs and devour the coral polyps . |
| 3 | From the start of this week the savings institutions have been handing over magnetic tapes to the Inland Revenue giving details of all interest-earning accounts , however small . |
| 4 | Most notably , the concept of ‘ social control ’ has been taken over wholesale by radical criminologists with little apparent sense of embarrassment ( see Cohen , 1995 ) — but for radicals ‘ social control ’ is usually a term of abuse denoting capitalist repression . |
| 5 | Various measures have been taken over recent months to help to improve traffic safety on the sites . |
| 6 | Records have also been taken over varying periods from a range of widely spaced localities , including ( sporadically ) outlying stations such as St Kilda . |
| 7 | Talks broke down today between the Soviet and Japanese delegations who have been negotiating over recent territorial clashes over culture-krill-harvesting operations off the island of Sakhalin . |