Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told her I 'd seen you over the weekend , ’ she relayed . |
| 2 | ‘ To a certain extent you 'll have free rein , ’ he 'd told her over the telephone . |
| 3 | Speaking after the presentation , Mr Ashwell said the Wedgwood Fine Dining Awards were coveted by restaurants around the world and appreciated by those who had received them over the years . |
| 4 | But for the generosity Dysart had shown him over the years , he might even have approved of his actions . |
| 5 | And oh , we loved the intimacy of having them so close , close enough that when I rode my bicycle for ‘ Committee ’ through the ‘ vomitarium ’ separating one wedge of audience from the next I was able to steady myself by grasping the leg of a gentleman who had stretched it over the side . |
| 6 | For another , it was the opportunity to take proper revenge for the discomfort that Private Eye had caused him over the years , a revenge more satisfying than that afforded him by the Music Box April Fool 's joke . |
| 7 | He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet . |
| 8 | He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers . |
| 9 | But for all that , in its basics it was indisputably the same Indian-made version of the 1956 Morris Oxford that had lorded it over the roads of India for some thirty-odd years now . |