Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tea was a substantial meal of eggs , bacon , sausages , even chops , provided by ourselves and cooked over a gas ring in the passage . |
| 2 | Jehan uncoiled himself and went over . |
| 3 | He tried to compose himself and go over in his mind the details of what had taken place almost a month before . |
| 4 | But Nicola 's husband recovered himself and padded over from the settee to switch off the television . |
| 5 | She must have been looking for me because a few seconds later she spotted me and came over . |
| 6 | when we us the last two and that one exploded on me I had this and it goes and exploded all over me and went over |
| 7 | I decided that it was not for me and moved over to accountancy — I had always been reasonable at maths — working for the Co-op and attending college part time . |
| 8 | Marie comes behind me and looks over my shoulder . |
| 9 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 10 | The chair was rolling towards the railings , and in another moment or two it would strike them and go over . |
| 11 | She had met him in the Coupole the night before when she was sitting with her friends from the atelier , and he 'd known one of them and come over . |
| 12 | This was true , in its way , but that did not prevent great-nephews and great-nieces becoming irritated when Auntie babied them and fussed over their clothing or over whatever they happened to be doing . |
| 13 | He spotted them and walked over . |
| 14 | I thought of what my Dad called them and replied over my shoulder , ‘ It 's them two vultures . ’ |
| 15 | And then suddenly , its rhythm catches you and takes over , and you know you are in the presence of a deliberate art that seems completely right and natural . |
| 16 | Now make a circle with your head , let it drop onto your chest , roll the head over the left shoulder , let it drop behind you and roll over the right shoulder and back onto the chest . |
| 17 | Earlier , on April 11 , the UN Council for Namibia , set up as an alternative to South Africa 's illegal rule , holding its first meeting on Namibian soil , voted to dissolve itself and to hand over its assets to the government . |
| 18 | Marc murmured something and turned over , and Sarella sat up with a gasp of embarrassment . |
| 19 | I follow him and peer over his shoulder . |
| 20 | Jake gathered her to him and rolled over on his back , so that she was lying on her stomach on top of him . |
| 21 | She came up behind him and looked over his shoulder . |
| 22 | Tom stood behind him and stared over his head into the shop . |
| 23 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 24 | Cranston glared back at him and waddled over . |
| 25 | She twisted away from him and backed over to the door , and then cracked it open , and peered out into the hall . |
| 26 | One by one , people come up to him and jump over the stick or crawl under it . |
| 27 | But even as her heart , for no known reason , gave a ridiculous flutter , he saw her and came over . |
| 28 | Instead he swung away from her and strode over to the far side of the room . |
| 29 | He opened it and said over his shoulder , ‘ I 'll call for you at seven-thirty . |
| 30 | Then she replaced it and went over to see to Mrs Mitchell who lay on the top of the bed dressed only in a calico nightgown groaning as she writhed about . |