Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [pron] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if you might have seen either of them or heard from them over the past few days . ’ |
| 2 | And he said , Well what would you prefer , go to school quietly or come with me over the hedge to have a spanking . |
| 3 | There 's something special about things that come to us over the centuries . ’ |
| 4 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 5 | He again knew what it was to feel embarrassed when , on the Monday dinner time , he went into the NAAM , and looking at her over the counter , he said , ‘ Hello there , ’ and she answered , ‘ Hello , yourself . ’ |
| 6 | She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister . |
| 7 | After about five minutes a middle-aged woman appeared in the doorway and , seeing Lucy , stopped and frowned at her over the top of her glasses . |
| 8 | ‘ Sweet … shy … sad ’ … the same words are echoed when you speak of Hannah to those who lived and farmed alongside her over the years . |
| 9 | Some 30 sacks were taken by six cars to the factory 25 miles away and thrown into it over the main gate at three o'clock in the morning . |
| 10 | The children stood on the top step and spoke to him over the half-door . |
| 11 | But Karajan 's will was superhuman where music is concerned and he always had in his hand a trump card : a capacity for inner detachment that left him free of bitterness or rancour for all that has been written and said about him over the years . |
| 12 | In deference to the apparent madness of King George III he agreed to the Lord Chamberlain 's proposal , as play censor , to omit Shakespeare 's King Lear from the repertory which told of a monarch similarly afflicted ; but clashed with him over The School for Scandal , the objections to which , however , he managed to resolve , bringing him a period of near prosperity . |