Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |
2 | The tobacco weighed out into the two separate tins he passed over the counter to her , he said , ‘ That 'll be one and tuppence ha'penny , eh lass ? ’ |
3 | I had agonised over its content , discussing it with Caroline , my wife , who knew the reservations I had over the job I was doing . |
4 | Enthroned in 1971 , in his last years he presided over the church 's rehabilitation by the Soviet authorities after decades of repression . |
5 | Regarding another feature ( AMNESTY , June/July ) — another excellent issue , by the way , as usual — I felt very much for David Bull in view of the rockets he collected over the India fundraising appeal . |
6 | Then Sir Beaumains … rode all that ever he might ride through marshes and fields and great dales , that many times he plunged over the head in deep mires , for he knew not the way , but took the gainest way in that woodness … |
7 | I still remember the names of some of the men we hired over the years — there was Billy Lockie , Mark Dent , and an Irishman called John Boyne . |
8 | When they get to Albany they 'll find the tickets they paid over the odds for wo n't take them any further . |
9 | Helen Atkins , the Council 's solicitor dealing with the issue , says the Authority has to act on the complaints it received over the summer , but admits there 's still a long way to go . |