Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | On June 22 , West Germany agreed to restructure over a 14-year period a debt of DM3,000 million due for payment by March 1991 . |
| 2 | Farag tried to look over his shoulder . |
| 3 | Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job . |
| 4 | His eyes seemed glazed over and the smile was stretched and impenetrable . |
| 5 | Some outside force seemed to take over Patrick 's body . |
| 6 | One of them reached over the moat to wrench hunks out of the hedge : I jumped backwards when the great muddy wrinkled trunk came swinging over , but Vern did n't , he just went on standing there , staring . |
| 7 | When factory industry began to take over , however , the mills were built at Hebden Bridge below , to take advantage of the water-power provided by the river and the transport facility of the canal , so Hebden Bridge grew fast into a busy mill town whilst Heptonstall remained as it had always been . |
| 8 | ‘ I felt pretty much the same , ’ she explained as his lips began to run over her forehead . |
| 9 | Already however , the Luftwaffe had been reduced in strength in Sicily as units began moving over to Libya to support the new German Afrika Korps , which was being assembled in the Tripoli area . |
| 10 | But slowly another emotion began to take over — anger . |
| 11 | On the way home afterwards , the engine of his car started boiling over and he was stranded on a motorway junction in a thunderstorm . |
| 12 | On July 6 Palestinian fighters started handing over their weaponry to the army . |
| 13 | Dogs and cats , of course birds , and er since the war , erm second war erm in the fifties , er the aquatic side started to take over and er people kept fish . |
| 14 | Several weeks before reunification , Bundeswehr units started taking over former NVA bases and re-training NVA soldiers , before quietly slipping into West Berlin , from where they had previously been banned by the 1969 Four Power agreement . |
| 15 | I was sticky with mud , and my mind kept going over and over the extraordinary events of the afternoon and evening . |
| 16 | As it was , however , the administration had taken over responsibility for this war ; and it had to work with what it had , making a just cause as best it could . |
| 17 | After the fighting had spilled over into Thailand , Thai forces responded with helicopter and fighter-bomber attacks against Khun Sa 's soldiers . |
| 18 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 19 | After the execution of Xavier de Chavigny , the German High Command had taken over the house and gardens at St-Cloud and used the beautiful late-seventeenth-century mansion to quarter troops . |
| 20 | Noticing the way the young woman 's eyes had glazed over with undisguised longing , while he appeared faintly bored with the proceedings , Shannon had mentally given thanks for the fact that she was n't drawn to gorgeous , self-centred hunks like this one . |
| 21 | Monks ' curry-coloured eyes had filmed over lasciviously at the vision of London , of freedom and promotion and advance . |
| 22 | The car had pulled over , then he had heard another car . |
| 23 | But his mind had clouded over again at the wrong moment and now it was too late . |
| 24 | On Nov. 18 it was reported that Chadian National Front ( FNT ) fighters had handed over their weapons to the Sudanese authorities on the border under a reconciliation agreement with the Déby government . |
| 25 | Under the high side there was a grey Buick that I had seen Harvey driving and a long black Lincoln Continental that looked like the President of the United States had come over for pizza and beer . |
| 26 | Auguste was promptly frogmarched into Mr Multhrop 's office , Mr Multhrop trotting along behind torn between a certain loyalty to Mr Dee and relief that officialdom had taken over . |
| 27 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 28 | Whether Branson had taken over Virgin Atlantic or it had overtaken him was difficult to tell . |
| 29 | It did not last long and had largely petered out by early 1972 , when budgie gear , baggies and flares with turn-ups , glamrock and other new influences had taken over . |
| 30 | Home , alone , Jay played through the last time Dionne had come over . |