Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politics constantly tended to take over and remould such pre-political elements for its own purposes . |
| 2 | Also Whittaker , the English master , must have suffered with my transposition of a simple sentence in basic english , but nevertheless seemed to enthuse over anything I did in the manner of an essay . |
| 3 | But it pissed me off no end when he finally decided to change over because he shut up shop while he did it , leaving me with no Saturday job and no money . |
| 4 | Obliged to give her full attention to the crowd around her , Rory felt a stab of annoyance dagger-sharp when she finally managed to glance over towards the mystery man 's table , only to discover his seat was empty . |
| 5 | MR BOB Reid , head of Shell UK , yesterday agreed to take over the chairmanship of British Rail under a deal that will bring him £2 million over five years . |
| 6 | And if he ever decided to stay over when he had n't told me in advance , he 'd always ring and tell me where I could reach him . |
| 7 | He also agreed to hand over to the US government $7,300,000 which was frozen in a number of Swiss bank accounts . |
| 8 | Both of them now wanted to hurry over to Athena Gardens . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , working class women could still filter out useful information from a visit to a School for Mothers , and as the local authorities increasingly came to take over the Schools and Babies ' Welcomes and turn them into infant welfare centres , so they became more acceptable to working class women . |
| 10 | He even offered to come over in person to explain them . |
| 11 | Sir Claus pointed out that allegations of political interference in statistics are not new , and revealed that he twice threatened to resign over attempts to change or suppress reports under Labour governments . |
| 12 | I wrote up the notes , made myself some scrambled eggs , then decided to walk over to the post office to see if my brother had telephoned last night with any message . |
| 13 | To her astonishment the intruder kicked the door shut behind him with a thrust of one foot , then proceeded to saunter over to where she was still sprawled in amazement across the bed . |
| 14 | She half turned to look over her shoulder ; when he followed her gaze , he saw that Sophie was standing in the doorway . |