Example sentences of "over by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She raised the barrel skywards , and was tumbled over by a breaking wave . |
| 2 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 3 | The idea of a political kingdom was something as easily understood then as now : a territory ruled over by a king to whom its citizens are subject . |
| 4 | Popes , especially such as Clement , found men like Winchelsey — all inflexible integrity and principle — a political embarrassment , and what Clement sought was a unified realm ruled over by a king who was prepared to go on crusade , assisted by a primate who would readily raise the papal taxes to pay for it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He gets run over by a truck . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The group was set to be taken over by a company owned by Pat Robertson , an American televangelist and former right-wing presidential hopeful . |
| 9 | What have drowning , suffocating , bleeding and being run over by a steam roller got in common ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Student Vivienne Wilson , 18 , from Purley , Surrey , said she would never be won over by a salesman — but a President would be another matter . |
| 12 | They denied the allegations and last month three were bound over by a Liverpool stipendiary magistrate , despite the CPS successfully appealing against a decision that proceedings against the four be stayed . |
| 13 | 1970 saw another change when the canteen was taken over by a catering company , and vending machines for hot and cold drinks , and snacks were provided . |
| 14 | An investigation has begun into the death of a woman run over by a coach . |
| 15 | Surely she could not be stupid enough to be falling in love , be bowled over by a man 's charm again , and so strongly this time ? |
| 16 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 17 | over by a metro train at various er |
| 18 | Thus there came into being a national jurisdiction which had forsworn Catholicism , ruled over by a queen who refused to abandon her Catholic faith . |
| 19 | Under a deal signed the following year , EPSI was taken over by a consortium formed by the Finnish chemical company Neste with the Portuguese companies Cortesi and Quintas & Quintas . |
| 20 | In the exercise of his remaining prerogatives the king was watched over by a Council of State — a miniature second chamber chosen by the king from a list submitted by the Cortes . |
| 21 | On the grandfather 's death , the farm was taken over by a bachelor son who set about founding a Clydesdale stud . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was pulled over by a policeman who verbally abused him after he had challenged the officer 's authority . |
| 27 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 30 | Derek Douane was being cooed over by a pair of predatory women in their fifties , not minding their tanned fingers in his hair , on his face or twanging his braces . |