Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] over [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes clouded over with the pain of the memories being allowed to surface after so many years of being ruthlessly suppressed . |
| 2 | Kebbel 's eyes drifted over to the window . |
| 3 | Blake 's work for MI6 included not only gathering intelligence from the Russians but tracking down and watching Communist spies sent over into the West . |
| 4 | One of them said : ‘ When the Communists took over after the war , some of the Fascists became the best Stalinists of all . |
| 5 | The handles were generally fixed first , also by plain rivets burred over on the shield 's front , at right angles to the grain of the wood ( Leeds and Shortt 1953 , p. 56 ; Jarvis et al . |
| 6 | By 1953 , the stiffener works had gone , the buildings turned over to the manufacture of various inks and dyestuffs . |
| 7 | My pursuers swarmed over into the lane and seized me . |
| 8 | One of the youths walked over to the group , looked at the black girl and said , ‘ By the way , you are a nigger too . ’ |
| 9 | One of the girls walked over to the time traveller and smiled a genuine welcoming grin . |
| 10 | As he watched , the two men wandered over to the door that led through to the garden . |
| 11 | Willie was left with Mrs Black and she and the remaining children filed over to the school . |
| 12 | In fact , he managed perfectly well if you did n't count a certain lack of variety in his evening meals and the fact that he was forever missing the lunch that the boys brought over from the mensa dead on twelve-thirty . |