Example sentences of "[verb] over [coord] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stool on which the boy had been sitting tipped over and hit the floor with a loud crash . |
| 2 | Blanche tiptoed over and remembered the face from the photograph of Tatyana 's that she had borrowed . |
| 3 | We all keeled over and hit the ground . |
| 4 | Benjamin hastened over and grasped the woman 's shoulder . |
| 5 | Doyle came over and inspected the newspaper . |
| 6 | The Doctor walked over and played the torch over the large stone . |
| 7 | She walked over and kicked the snake . |
| 8 | He walked over and pulled the blanket off the body . |
| 9 | They pressed IBM on these issues and the company took over and worked the land of fifteen surrounding farms . |
| 10 | She reached over and balanced the candle , which was dripping wax down one side . |
| 11 | Most everybody in the house had gone to work , or whatever it was they did during daylight , and as I was only two feet away I reached over and slipped the lock , taking the phone receiver with me . |
| 12 | The Mason reached over and snatched the purse , emptying about half of the contents into his own hand . |
| 13 | And as Pete was standing , she reached over and closed the scrapbook . |
| 14 | He leant over and pushed the door open , shoved her out as the engine died . |
| 15 | The pot of face relations in the US has been simmering and bubbling furiously , until it finally boiled over and hit the burner . |
| 16 | Betty went over and locked the door , and Lydia looked out of the window at the shadows that were gathering under the trees . |
| 17 | To his surprise , the man went over and kicked the bag towards him . |
| 18 | She jerked her head at the boy and he went over and turned the knob . |
| 19 | He moved again , and gladly she leaned over and pressed the bell on the wall beside the cot and got up to get the breast tray . |
| 20 | Mandeville leaned over and tapped the book . |
| 21 | At her first move to get up he leaned over and lifted the bike from her , but before she could get to her feet he was beside her , sitting on the grass and looking down into her flushed face . |
| 22 | Corbett leaned over and gripped the porter tightly by the shoulder . |
| 23 | She leaned over and rang the bell for Gerard . |
| 24 | Pascoe leaned over and opened the passenger door . |
| 25 | He leaned over and opened the passenger door so he could yell at me . |
| 26 | She stretched over and pulled the material off the torn metal . |
| 27 | And of course the old man was there and he come over and grabbed the bloke by the throat and he said do n't you ever shout at my son like that again . |
| 28 | She ran over and pulled the door . |