Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 2 | You 'd have known so well that when you turn over a stone all kinds of creepy-crawlies come clambering out . |
| 3 | Alison , from Aberdulais , West Glamorgan , was walking to a restaurant with her boyfriend when she tripped over a kerb and fell headlong into the Georgian-style leaded windows of a shop . |
| 4 | Alison , from Aberdulais , West Glamorgan , was walking to a restaurant with her boyfriend when she tripped over a kerb and fell headlong into the Georgian-style leaded windows of a shop . |
| 5 | And the videotape of Cal and me playing Bottom and Titania in A Midsummer Night 's Dream last year , with us collapsing in giggles when she tripped over a cobweb and brought down half the lights . |
| 6 | Right from the beginning , we argued that the revolutionary process in El Salvador could only be carried out through a popular war in which the incorporation of the civil population is essential When we take over a village or settlement and the enemy forces are ousted … we begin the work of consciousness raising about the situation of the country together with the work of organizing the local population . |
| 7 | Unfortunately this was damaged on the way when they ran over a mine and had to be abandoned . |
| 8 | The jail breakers , all remand prisoners , were among 80 prisoners being supervised by 2 officers in the exercise yard of Gloucester Prison when they escaped over a perimeter wall using a rope made of bedsheets . |
| 9 | Everyone is aware of the sensation experienced in a lift as it starts to descend , and in a car when it goes over a humped-back bridge . |
| 10 | Every golfer in the world experiences that awful feeling of helplessness when he stands over a putt and knows that he has not the slightest chance of getting the ball near the hole , let alone into it . |
| 11 | THE Mayor of Middlesbrough , Coun Eddie Bolland , supported pedal power when he handed over a tandem to a group helping blind and partially-sighted people take part in cycling and sport . |