Example sentences of "been run over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The narrator , returning to the box shortly afterwards , finds that the signalman has been run over by a train . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 5 | The popular ‘ explanation ’ for these pitiful remains is that the hedgehogs have been run over by motor cars . |
| 6 | 2.27 There must also be a discount for the uncertainties of life : the fact that the deceased might have been run over by another bus on the following day or that he was involved in a particularly hazardous occupation . |
| 7 | If I 'd been standing here fifteen years ago I 'd have been run over by now because there were four lanes of traffic running around here . |