Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was put forward by his coach in recognition of the success he has achieved over the past year . |
| 2 | Yesterday saw Hopkinson in sad , frustrated mood , attacking the ‘ complacency ’ among many field sportsmen and bewailing the lack of support he has received over the past seven years . |
| 3 | Brian Clough , the Forest manager , said : ‘ His contract was not expiring but he deserved a rise for the contribution he has made over the last 12 months -so he earned himself a new deal . ’ |
| 4 | Armed with the techniques he has learned over the past months , he is free to combine them in whatever way he thinks suits his stature . |
| 5 | He had agreed to the live radio interview readily enough , probably expecting it to run the course of a dozen or so others he 'd done over the past couple of years . |
| 6 | Before an audience of 5,000 at the Royal Albert Hall , Harrison performed songs he had written over the past 25 years , and some Beatles classics . |
| 7 | He decided the wisest course was to pool all he had made over the last two years , enabling Julian to purchase the lease of a high street property . |
| 8 | He had grieved over the dead woman , and Sally-Anne had put her work-reddened finger on something which had frequently troubled him in his slum practice . |
| 9 | Yet she had to admit he had changed over the last few days . |
| 10 | Sometimes , during the ritual prayer , now he had got over the early stages of wondering when to get on the floor , when to rise , and exactly how to get the fingers up to the earlobes , he found himself begging to be excused any significance in his actions . |
| 11 | So , together with his engraving , etching and aquatinting materials and his pigments for colours which he always mixed carefully himself , it was in the summer of 1800 that he decided to go north ( to the Lakes ) to begin once again and to try to rid himself of all he had learnt over the last decade and ‘ to adhere as faithfully as possible to nature . |
| 12 | He spent his time putting down on odd scraps of vellum his different thoughts on what he had learnt over the past few weeks . |
| 13 | One reason he thinks he can do it is the help he 's had over the past six weeks of intensive Lilleshall training from England 's newly-installed bowling coach , the former Surrey and Sussex star Geoff Arnold . |