Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italians fought with great courage , especially in 1917 when they stopped a superior axis force that threatened to take over the whole of the northern part of the country . |
| 2 | But , though Jerome 's intemperate denigration of the married state met with little sympathy , Augustine did not manage to dispel the sombre cloud that continued to hover over sexual relations . |
| 3 | then one day she rang and asked to come over — and we went to collect her and she 's been with us ever since . |
| 4 | But she did n't want that either and tried to smooth over any awkwardness by saying : |
| 5 | He said , ‘ What ? ’ and tried to look over his shoulder , as if not sure who was there . |
| 6 | A girl came in and tried to haggle over a nineteenth-century vase , but Rachaela told her Mrs Mantini fixed the prices fairly and never reduced items . |
| 7 | At the end of Salvation Street he paused and seemed to hesitate over whether to return to the town or take the road in the direction of Moorgate and the house on stilts . |
| 8 | His gaze left her face and began to roam over her figure , and her nerve gave out entirely . |
| 9 | Rohmer turned away from Cardiff and began to walk over to them . |
| 10 | She moved to another part of the studio and started to turn over a number of stretched canvases , all of them blank . |
| 11 | ‘ This guy got fed up with it , threw his skis over one ridge and started to climb over when it collapsed . |
| 12 | I was now able to breathe properly and started to feel over my body with both hands . |
| 13 | He got off his bed at five and decided to ride over into Grasmere that afternoon . |
| 14 | Do you think that if we had a pensions regulator , er it might deal with some of the exploitations by Robert Maxwell er and some of the er aspects of where he breached the law and managed to take over pension funds . |
| 15 | He took conservative ideas on privatisation and land reform , gave them a populist anti-government bent and managed to woo over many poorer voters - especially in northern Mexico — who previously feared that the PAN represented only business interests . |
| 16 | One of the German pilots saw the state of their clothes and offered to fly over to Mudros with a message for the British to bring some of their personal belongings over to the camp . |
| 17 | Michael was looking over the top of a cliff at them and had to fall over , hanging in mid-air . |
| 18 | And those breasts Dan ogled her innocently and unashamedly as he approached her , and continued to gawk over his shoulder after passing . |
| 19 | The ethos of the '70s would leave everybody in equally drab council estates ; denied the chance that high quality schools used to offer ; offered ‘ permissiveness ’ in place of standards and values ; and left to quarrel over how to divide an ever- diminishing cake . |
| 20 | I was terrified but had to go over . |
| 21 | They often provided a general back-up throughout the year but had to take over completely in the absence or incapacity , through illness or accident , of their husbands . |