Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [pers pn] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got the top off and a cup poured before lowering himself gingerly back into the driving seat and passing it over to Catherine . |
| 2 | He pulled a sheet from one of the beds , spread it on the floor , opened up wardrobes and drawers , scooped up armfuls of clothes — there was no time to make any kind of selection and even if there had been he would have been unable to pick and choose , they were all women 's clothing — dumped them on the sheet , tied up the four corners , lugged the bundle up the companionway and handed it over to Riley . |
| 3 | At the end of July , with Responsions successfully behind him as well as a happy celebratory birthday outing for Helen spent with Harry and Janet , Edward was still as hesitant as in his early letters to Hooton : ‘ May I bring a paper in manuscript and talk it over with you ? |
| 4 | Macmillan , the publisher , had a quantity of ‘ sheets ’ left over from the first printing and shipped them over to Appleton & Co. , the American publishers . |
| 5 | The Germans , defeated , suffering every form of deprivation , were not and could hardly be expected to be enthusiastic about dismantling the only source of their livelihood and handing it over to the hated Russians . |
| 6 | Mr Jarvis grinned and , as she picked up the squirrel and took him over to the recovery cage , he followed and stood watching as she settled her patient down . |
| 7 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |
| 8 | All the Official Custodian was doing was receiving the income and paying it over to the charities . |
| 9 | The woman took the money — understood to amount to several thousand pounds — to a pre-arranged drop-off point and handed it over to a member of the gang . |
| 10 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
| 11 | Is n't it time you either made a charge and got it over with , or you damned well got out of here , and Mister Bloody Hamilton with you ? ’ |
| 12 | It is working with Intel on the project but has to wait for silicon before it attempts to actualise the product and turn it over to LSI Logic for manufacture . |
| 13 | Delving into her bag , Cara extracted a few cards from her wallet and passed them over to her , and while Fabia , who knew her sister went by her maiden name in her job , was looking at the printed cards that announced ‘ Cara Kingsdale , Verity magazine ’ , Cara was suggesting , ‘ Keep those by you just in case Mr Gajdusek wants proof that you represent Verity . |
| 14 | ‘ I was aiming for a Mediterranean feel , ’ she explained , filling a plastic mug with orange juice and taking it over to Thomas . |
| 15 | The candlelight had taken his cheap suit and made it over in some priceless fabric . |
| 16 | All I had to do was to train chicks on either methylanthranilate or water and hand them over to Roger , who would disappear into the neurophysiology lab with them and emerge many hours later with reams of paper which he would begin to analyse . |
| 17 | A major offensive was launched on Aug. 22 in an attempt to relieve the siege , after the government had abandoned its earlier suggestion that it might evacuate the fort and turn it over for use by the International Red Cross . |
| 18 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
| 19 | Curtius took his drink and carried it over to the corner . |
| 20 | He had written something on a scrap of paper and folded it over at the bottom . |
| 21 | There you will see the sign , a big board … that 's where … he smiled his big smile again as he tore off the piece of paper and handed it over to me . |
| 22 | She got up and picked up the frame and brought it over to Meredith . |
| 23 | Diane filled in an order form for a Jenner Clinic catalogue and took it over to be processed while Reynolds waited , arms folded and leaning against a pillar by the card files . |
| 24 | You could remove the pages from the catalogue and fax them over to Jack you see |
| 25 | He raised an eyebrow and looked her over from head to toe . |
| 26 | With much huffing and puffing , the beetles managed to lift the pebble and carry it over to the professor 's circle . |
| 27 | The next February he awakened his bride from her melancholy sleep and carried her over to the window , where , on looking out , she saw the landscape covered in white . |
| 28 | ‘ Just open the stupid thing and get it over with . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ How do you mean , you wrote this ? ’ demands Howard , taking the book and turning it over in his hands . |
| 30 | Just pick up the receiver and get it over with . ’ |