Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [pron] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was meant to be the moment of her greatest satisfaction , when she unleashed on him all the bitterness and resentment that she had carried inside her over the years . |
| 3 | He was enthusiastic about the paper being located in Manchester , whereas Pilger had clashed with them over the move . |
| 4 | But Leopold soon found another source of grievance — the fact that Wolfgang had lied to him over the money he had earned . |
| 5 | It was not until a few weeks after her father had been installed that Dorothy began to realize the fortitude with which her mother had cared for him over the years . |
| 6 | The amount of power ministers had seized for themselves over the development of young people was also worrying . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She saw the long sheds , and the wooden posts , shining and smooth where the cows had rubbed against them over the years . |
| 10 | Few words had passed between them over the past week , and now she could see that it was with an effort he said , ‘ Your mother tells me about this idea of hers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The wind surged around the little car , streaking past across the expanse of long brown grass still flattened from the snow that had lain on it over the winter . |