Example sentences of "had [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy Monroe was young and her wounds had healed over . |
| 2 | Forester could visualise the postman frowning at the interference with his sack , looking around angrily , seeing scuff-marks in the moss of the wall where Forester had stumbled over , the broken twigs and an undiscovered shoe or a sleeve glimpsed through the leaves ; he did n't dare even raise his head . |
| 3 | Among the other guests lunching were Mr Paul Marmin the managing director of Boucheron , and Mrs Marmin ; Mr and Mrs Hamish Renton , he is a director of Boucheron ; Mr and Mrs Eric Arnott , he is one of the world 's greatest eye surgeons , and had flown over to America that Thursday on a professional trip and flown home on Saturday . |
| 4 | Rather , when trouble had boiled over , which was pretty rare , they were the ones who stood and slugged it out . |
| 5 | There were two dry docks and if she had veered over , she 'd have gone into the oil storage area . |
| 6 | A voice that they had heard over and over again as they sat in Keith 's sitting-room . |
| 7 | Karen King — because she was English , Jessica insisted — had given over even thinking about them , let alone imagining what they might do with their hard , lean bodies and their tired , rope-burned hands , had given over bothering to deny she 'd had such fantasies . |
| 8 | Barry Glyn Ellis , 21 , of Somerset Road , Irby , had consumed over one-and-a-half times the limit . |
| 9 | ‘ She had travelled over with her boyfriend and did n't know the system . |
| 10 | When she had aimed the bottle at Gazzer 's head , years of pent-up hurt and frustration had spilled over into violence : violence which she had previously directed against herself or had lived through only in her mind . |
| 11 | The tears had come once more into Maria Jakob 's eyes , had spilled over . |
| 12 | In early 1988 is seemed as if the conflicts of the Middle East had spilled over into the strange world of British fascism . |
| 13 | She found herself half listening to his gossip , her mind drifting away to Piers and Nicole , wondering whether the day they were spending together had spilled over into night , and whether her husband suspected anything about what was between them . |
| 14 | After the fighting had spilled over into Thailand , Thai forces responded with helicopter and fighter-bomber attacks against Khun Sa 's soldiers . |
| 15 | Adam had fallen over in the playground , hit his head on a bench , been taken to hospital . |
| 16 | On the top side of the platform , Daak had fallen over . |
| 17 | The three androids had fallen over , too , but they were still functioning , and were beginning to aim their blasters . |
| 18 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 19 | She looked at him with a derision of her own , delighted to be able to go into battle , and she was just standing to leave when there was a noise in another room of the suite as if something had fallen over . |
| 20 | Even Michael Bridges , the Echo man ( Kegan had leaned over to Briant and pointed him out as soon as he came in ) , sat sprawled in seeming boredom in his chair at the end of the front row . |
| 21 | The traveller then saw that he was sitting right on the edge of a cliff , and if he had leaned over to get the log he would have fallen to his death . |
| 22 | The sky had clouded over ; the cloud coming up from the desert and spreading over the whole wide sky in a matter of minutes . |
| 23 | But his mind had clouded over again at the wrong moment and now it was too late . |
| 24 | Eric had rolled over and had one hand under his head , the other over his eyes . |
| 25 | He had rolled over just a little , and opened his eyes . |
| 26 | Maybe some other friends had come over ? |
| 27 | Home , alone , Jay played through the last time Dionne had come over . |
| 28 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |
| 29 | one of Mrs Tibbs 's boarders , ‘ an Irishman recently imported ’ who was ‘ in a perfectly wild state ; and had come over to England to be an apothecary , a clerk in a government office , an actor , a reporter , or anything else that turned up — he was not particular ’ . |
| 30 | Our older son had come over from San Francisco with his wife and the three children , so they were all here . |