Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to [pers pn] over the " in BNC.

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1 For the simple reason that we have no debt to finance , we have no debts to finance , and if we 'd listened to you over the years , on our sur surplus land and property .
2 It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind .
3 But Leopold soon found another source of grievance — the fact that Wolfgang had lied to him over the money he had earned .
4 In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years .
5 The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so .
6 How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist .
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