Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [pron] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came out with a wonderful phrase which has stayed with me over the years . |
| 2 | And other players will be added to the list after Keegan has spoken to them over the weekend . |
| 3 | Everything that has happened to her over the past year has been genuine , from breaking her thumb to the operation , not to mention all the hassle she has had from standing by her father . |
| 4 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 5 | This short article is to let you know what has happened to us over the last few months . |
| 6 | I 've had a wonderful run , and I 've enjoyed it hugely and I just ca n't say what it has meant to me over the past four marvellous Ryder Cups . |
| 7 | Since he refuses to talk to me over the phone , he 'll have the pleasure of talking to me in person instead ! |
| 8 | Bursting from the trees ahead of him , three black shapes came hurtling towards him over the pine needle floor of the clearing . |
| 9 | For the simple reason that we have no debt to finance , we have no debts to finance , and if we 'd listened to you over the years , on our sur surplus land and property . |
| 10 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 11 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 12 | This was meant to be the moment of her greatest satisfaction , when she unleashed on him all the bitterness and resentment that she had carried inside her over the years . |
| 13 | Ellen Jebeau brought her lips tightly together and drew them inwards between her teeth before she said , with deep bitterness , ‘ I do n't know about it being a time for plain speaking , I can only say that time has shown your ingratitude for what I 've done for you over the years . ’ |
| 14 | He was enthusiastic about the paper being located in Manchester , whereas Pilger had clashed with them over the move . |
| 15 | But Leopold soon found another source of grievance — the fact that Wolfgang had lied to him over the money he had earned . |
| 16 | It was not until a few weeks after her father had been installed that Dorothy began to realize the fortitude with which her mother had cared for him over the years . |
| 17 | The amount of power ministers had seized for themselves over the development of young people was also worrying . |
| 18 | In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years . |
| 19 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 20 | She saw the long sheds , and the wooden posts , shining and smooth where the cows had rubbed against them over the years . |
| 21 | Few words had passed between them over the past week , and now she could see that it was with an effort he said , ‘ Your mother tells me about this idea of hers . |
| 22 | His voice went away again , and I heard doggy noises-puppy noises , come to think of it over the phone . |
| 23 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 24 | The wind surged around the little car , streaking past across the expanse of long brown grass still flattened from the snow that had lain on it over the winter . |
| 25 | he 's not , he 's not , he 's not a , he 's not stupid , Christopher , he , he 's certainly not stupid , and er he must have seen , I mean I assume he keeps his bank statements , I mean I 'm afraid we have one or two bank statements which show thousands of pounds that he 's received from us over the last year erm and , you know , he ca n't blind because they 've all gone through his bank account , you know , he must |
| 26 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 27 | ‘ So many people have said to me over the years that it is very sad I never bore Norman a child , that I only ever had stepchildren to love . |
| 28 | After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating . |
| 29 | Thank you , QP , for all the kindness you have shown to me over the time of my mother 's illness and death . |
| 30 | The hotel leaflet ends a few paragraphs on : ‘ The Newton has had many celebrities who have stayed with us over the years , including the late Harold Macmillan and Charlie Chaplin … ’ |