Example sentences of "[pron] had [to-vb] over " in BNC.

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1 I had to bend over , parallel to the body , to get the nail file under the nails .
2 As she did this , she told me a chant I had to say over and over again .
3 Yeah , but , I had to take over , where she left off .
4 I had to go over to them and say , I 'm sorry but we 're going to have to close for a bit .
5 Of course , I had to go over and see to them . ’
6 Suddenly , one of the organisers called my number , I had to take off my socks and shoes as you had to do the jump in bare feet and I had to go over to get weighed again on different scales to make sure I was using the correct cord ( they were very safety conscious about every aspect of the jump ) .
7 I had to go over and get it in person .
8 No , I 've had , no I 've go , I had to go over to shit !
9 Yeah well I could n't so I had to come over and and buy them a flipping new one !
10 I had to jump over a hedge , ’ she said , ‘ and I tore my bloomers . ’
11 Folly cast her eye down the column of names , but it ran off the bottom of the page and she had to turn over .
12 In the event she had to step over one of its feet .
13 ‘ The contractors had done a lot of the work , but we had to go over some of it again , including painting the wooden treads on the stairs just to make sure it was right , ’ he explained .
14 I was putting them round the back and sat thinking about it and I said well we ai n't got no peat , so we had to rush over to Hetford and bought some very good peat , and erm , by the time I got back and started digging hole for them to go in
15 If we had to play over a m7♭5 chord , I would use a Locrian scale .
16 No you could n't I mean er at you know the the doors would n't be open be I mean you know , you could picture a wardrobe without a door , but you were working you were sandpapering that on the inside and er maybe brushing it up and down and then sandpapering that again and then they had to go over with what we call the rubber .
17 The companies vied with each other to find new settings for the basic story-lines and messages that they had to put over .
18 They had to travel over extremely bad terrain on the way but by 13 December they were in place .
19 The further they got from the rave the more bodies they had to step over .
20 Elsham signalbox is situated in a very remote part of the Lincolnshire countryside and thus evokes more strange happenings that baffled John Daubney when he had to take over the box as a relief signalman .
21 To do this he had to lean over and push the bolt firmly into place .
22 Three times he had to pull over to examine the map .
23 Going through the rock gardens , he had to climb over and climb under the trunks of fallen pine trees ; he found he was weak .
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