Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 2 | Perhaps there was someone behind me who was just about to hit me over the head . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't worry … you can sleep alone — I can take a hint that I 'm not wanted without you having to hit me over the head with it , ’ he finished bitterly . |
| 4 | What do you want now , ah , that 's it push me over you are n't half cheeky , no wonder Mary tells me off the way I treat ya , ah ? |
| 5 | No , do n't pick for me , bring them over here . |
| 6 | Just bring them over here . |
| 7 | Sling them over here . |
| 8 | We did all right until we got to the last bit and I got my foot caught in Otley 's pocket when he tried to bend down , he fell and flung me over his head knocking my wig skew-whiff . |
| 9 | Sharon asked me over a slightly crackly line . |
| 10 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 11 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 12 | And so saying , he led me over the fields to his childhood home . |
| 13 | So that got me over the turkey . |
| 14 | Where he did have strong personal views , he proved less willing or less able to implement them over the opposition of others . |
| 15 | I like to sprinkle them over miniature salads and , mixed with fromage frais , either stuffed into small peaches or rolled up in smoked salmon with a tarragon aspic . |
| 16 | With a long journey ahead of me every morning and evening , I do n't hang about , and this is the first petrol-engined car I 've used that has given me over 45mpg on a run . |
| 17 | I am happy there at the moment , and I want to repay Yorkshire for all the support they have given me over the years . ’ |
| 18 | I 'll propose Emily 's report and , and in doing so I 'd like to say thank you to her for her sterling work this year , I think she 's done a terrific job erm and I 'd like to thank her personally for the help she 's given me over the year . |
| 19 | ‘ To drive them over the top ? ’ |
| 20 | Speaking after the presentation , Mr Ashwell said the Wedgwood Fine Dining Awards were coveted by restaurants around the world and appreciated by those who had received them over the years . |
| 21 | ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call . |
| 22 | The right to wear them over the left breast pocket instead of on the sleeve was granted to those who had taken part in three trips behind the lines . |
| 23 | Well of course they are and bringing them over here must cost them five hundred quid . |
| 24 | ‘ George read me over a list of CIA personnel who were in London in the late Sixties — ’ |
| 25 | For I remember us doing a flipping er a family came to Wyre once and we were on the same old coble we were er doing the flipping and we thought we had nothing to do but take the rope off their heads and push them over the side of the coble onto the side of the small jetty . |
| 26 | To disappear the young men into their own terrain , make use of every cave and wood ( and send them over the water if need be ) ? |
| 27 | It 's a move we have practised so many times in training and I always send them over the bar . |
| 28 | Whereas the three unbreakable makes of 1930 were distributed by record shops in the usual way , you ordered your Durium records from your newsagent , so a pair of new hits were delivered through your letterbox once a week , like magazines ( you could also buy them over the counter , of course ) . |
| 29 | Hon. Members can buy them over the counter in a chemist 's shop . |
| 30 | We all take drugs in some form or another , some are legal , you can buy them over the counter or your G P may prescribe , those are illegal , but still widely available and used at a price . |