Example sentences of "[adj] man [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABBERLEY : In a part of Greece , a remote part , a man who kills another man takes over the dead man 's wife . |
| 2 | There were a dozen mourners from the family in the front pews — women with grey curls and mild glasses , an old man bent over a stick , his head projecting forwards from the unoccupied collar of his overcoat like a tortoise 's ; a schoolboy in a neat navy-blue trenchcoat , holding a maroon cap . |
| 3 | An old man sat over a half pint of stout . |
| 4 | He had reluctantly agreed " to let the old man come over " . |
| 5 | The second man handed over his saddle-bags to the highwayman and both men were immediately waved on their way , the robbed man supporting his companion . |
| 6 | One bedraggled , beaten-up man comes over to warn us . |
| 7 | Sir Richard turned and called the man 's name and a small , bald-headed man wandered over . |
| 8 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 9 | During the meal , " The poor man bent over his plate , drinking but not eating … |
| 10 | The skinny man walked over to me and stuck out his hand . |
| 11 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 12 | I 've landless men to send over to take the places of the dead , and fowls and beasts to get them started again . |
| 13 | It was fairly quiet , just one or two elderly men conversing over a pint . |
| 14 | The tall man towered over his father , vigorous and proud . |
| 15 | But a long time ago I was writing a television play about Irish men coming over to England to collect their brother 's body , and I could n't imagine how they 'd talk . |
| 16 | The daunting confines of the Crucible Theatre have been known to make strong men tremble over the simplest of pots , but after what has happened to the unassuming Thai in recent weeks , it will be a shock of seismic proportions if the occasion affects him — even on his debut . |
| 17 | Police said three armed men took over a house at Garvagh Road , Dungiven , last night and hijacked a white Transit van which they abandoned with the bomb on board . |
| 18 | Police said three armed men took over a house at Garvagh Road , Dungiven , last night and hijacked a white Transit van which they abandoned with the bomb on board . |
| 19 | ‘ The shout of ‘ Freeze ’ from the door and the sight of the big crew-cut man crouched over a Colt.45 aimed straight at his chest caused the burly man to stop . |
| 20 | The other man moved over to join them , gripping Connelly 's right arm so that his hand was groping at empty air . |
| 21 | Hansen was leaving the gym , guitar in hand , when a young man came over and said , ‘ Who do you think you are , Jimi Hendrix ? ’ |
| 22 | Then a young man came over and spoke to her . |
| 23 | In the spring of 1938 the old doctor who had attended her died suddenly and a young man took over the practice . |
| 24 | and with a leprous man came over and began doing a to him saying , Lord if you just want to you can make me clean , and so stretching out his hand he touched him saying , I want to be made clean and immediately his leprosy was , vanished away , then Jesus said to him , see that you tell no one , but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses appointed for the purpose of a witness to them when he entered into Calpurnia that 's the other two , that the other |
| 25 | To his surprise , two men came over and joined him . |
| 26 | As he watched , the two men wandered over to the door that led through to the garden . |
| 27 | One of the two men leaned over . |
| 28 | As a 13-year-old child , I was sitting on a train when a middle-aged man came over and started talking . |
| 29 | A tall urbane man comes over and ruffles her hair . |
| 30 | He looked around from force of habit , but the spooks from the Mukhabarat were too disorganized and demoralized to pay any attention to a couple of middle-aged men crouched over a whisky . |