Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 2 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 3 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 4 | Rod Porter peered at her over the top of his book , glancing at the other visitors . |
| 5 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 6 | There was a pause , than a woman 's reddened , raddled face squinted at him over the sill . |
| 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 | ‘ Are you married ? ’ he said at once , head turned toward the din from his workmen as he stepped past me over the rubble and put a key into the lock of the , I should have thought , not yet apt to be plundered building . |
| 9 | This time Mr and Mrs Dare were alone , and she enjoyed the half-hour she spent with them over the study fire . |
| 10 | Iris grinned at her over the rim of her glass of mineral water . |
| 11 | And er , see , my father , when they used to start the rounds , they used to start , go down the Fen on a Tuesday , er the man what worked for him over the road George worked for him there , a chap named George and my father used to go round Wicken , that 's three miles away from here . |
| 12 | He thought about it over the weekend and accepted . |
| 13 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 14 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 15 | She looked at him over the top of her glass . |
| 16 | She looked at him over the top of her cup . |
| 17 | I looked at him over the roof . |
| 18 | Elinor looked at him over the rim of her magazine . |
| 19 | She looked at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 20 | Ashley looked at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 21 | Malc reappeared round the door , looked at me over the top of his specs and reached out and I walked towards his outstretched arms on liquid legs . |
| 22 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 23 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |
| 24 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 25 | She smiled again and Mr Croydon leaned towards her over the desk . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The boss sounded agitated when I spoke to him over the phone . ’ |
| 28 | The children stood on the top step and spoke to him over the half-door . |
| 29 | But er when she says I 'm not talking to her she means she has n't spoke to her over the telephone |
| 30 | Margaret smiled at me over the table as if she had read my mind and was too happy to be anything but amused by the fact . |