Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ali is so large I have to stand on my toes to reach over and across the huge expanse of his back to slip the tie under his collar . |
| 2 | In January the National Party ( NP ) government outlined its plans to hand over sovereignty to a power-sharing administration . |
| 3 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |
| 4 | The younger man dived between her thighs to gorge upon her wet muff , while the older man stood astride her hips to piddle over her breasts and belly . |
| 5 | It provides , secondly , that long elusive missing link , decision taken on 5 Corps ' signal on 23 May reiterating that it could only carry out its orders to hand over the Cossacks if it was given authorization to use force . |
| 6 | She opened her eyes , kept her gaze fixed on Ward 's face and allowed her hands to glide over her smooth skin back down towards her pubic mound . |
| 7 | Today , most high street shops use photographs of their clothes to win over customers but in the early Seventies , the concept was startlingly new and original and Jane 's work was highly acclaimed by other professionals . |
| 8 | Although the exiled Decembrists worried local officials and prompted a Governor-General to recommend that they be sent elsewhere because they were " gradually disseminating their ideas and … might be harmful " , they were far less militant than exiled Poles , whose plans to take over Omsk in 1833 seem to have given the authorities their largest Siberian scare of the reign . |
| 9 | Criminal proceedings could be started in Libya , but this had so far proved impossible because neither the USA nor the UK authorities had responded to his requests to hand over copies of the evidence in their possession . |
| 10 | As it was she stored his words to mull over in her room . |
| 11 | Congressmen and senators did not like being bombarded with an estimated eighty legislative proposals in Carter 's first year and were unim-pressed by his resistance to compromise , his aversion to bargaining and his threats to go over their heads directly to the people . |
| 12 | The INPFL 's withdrawal followed severe criticisms by interim government officials of Johnson 's action in ordering the execution of a senior commander whose offence appeared to be that he unilaterally complied with provisions of the peace agreement , arranging for his men to hand over their arms to troops of the 7,000-strong Ecowas Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) . |
| 13 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 14 | They would they would never allow our men to go over but they would be there to take it . |