Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No — that would be too much to expect , she decided with a pang of misery that made her blink as she turned over the food . |
| 2 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 3 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 4 | Their common aim is to help introduce a more just and democratic society ; to bring into being the social transformation that was announced by the government as it took over the leadership of the newly independent Zimbabwe in 1980 . |
| 5 | I rousted Thessy out of his bed with a cup of tea , then went to my own bed as he took over the wheel . |
| 6 | If anything , his faith was strengthened in the mid-1950s , as he worked over the past to write his War Memoirs . |
| 7 | Then the dream had shifted to show him whistling as he worked over the bins . |
| 8 | ‘ In the beginning , Freddie did n't have all the powers that he wanted to have as a vocalist ; he worked to achieve those and improved as he worked over the years . |
| 9 | Mark asked , as he handed over the fish and chips . |