Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | " And I win over you in one way — I 'm going to have at least a weekend in Joanna . |
| 32 | Down here there is a metre of snow on the windward side of the lavvu , and I fall over a small rucsac that had disappeared . |
| 33 | ‘ Oh , my God , my God , ’ she said , ‘ I was showing Jack the view out there , and I leant over pointing to something and then suddenly the whole thing seemed to tilt and … ’ |
| 34 | ‘ I persuaded him to sell me the rights to manufacture the Seven and I took over everything except the Lotus name . ’ |
| 35 | In due course Vernon Hunt retired and I took over as Chief Inspector of Accidents on 1 January 1974 . |
| 36 | I got myself a couple of sausages on sticks , a hunk of crusty bread , and another Scotch , and I took over a pint of bitter for Seddon . |
| 37 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
| 38 | I gave him a pound coin and promised him another if he did his stuff and I walked over to Mrs Newton 's front door . |
| 39 | The man moved away , in surprise , and I walked over to the desk . |
| 40 | In a police statement Conley , of Park End , said : ‘ I saw Wayne by the fence and I walked over to him . |
| 41 | So we had chosen an exit at random , and I stepped over one of those high door-frames which are presumably intended to stop the sea water from sloshing into the saloon . |
| 42 | Patsy and I corresponded over a period of four months . |
| 43 | I was dialling it when I heard the door of Flat 2 open and I glanced over my shoulder to see Fenella , who had added pyjama trousers to her stripey shirt , and Lisabeth , in an ankle-length woollen dressing-gown , creeping down the stairs like they were doing a commercial for a new edition of A. A. Milne books . |
| 44 | I did n't want Mary to go because I thought I would n't see her for a long time , and I ran over to her and pleaded . |
| 45 | And by the end of the two weeks I was just slapping paint here , there and everywhere and I painted over all the locks and things like that , because I did n't really care too much about it . |
| 46 | So half-way through a take I saw this cigarette butt on the ground , and I went over to it and kicked the cigarette out of the way . |
| 47 | ‘ When Terry was coaching Barcelona and I went over to visit him , he asked me to bring a few pounds of good old English pork sausages because he was missing his bangers and mash for tea , ’ he explained . |
| 48 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 49 | We halted the camels when we drew near and Omar and the Adoimara headman and I went over . |
| 50 | ‘ The other day Thomas and I went over to look at the foundations of the first villa which your men have started to build , ’ she remarked , as they drank their coffee . |
| 51 | So I got out the car and I went over and I , turned it down , as it were turning down I saw it was n't pouring just out the tap , it was also pouring from the |
| 52 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 53 | so we put it under there and round here and everywhere and I went over to on Saturday and erm crumbs she said you look , you look really good , I thought |
| 54 | And I went over , I goes you alright ? |
| 55 | she says like er she says you know Jean she says well I just sat there and she says I 'm away and I went over she says because it was her |
| 56 | And I went over , and I like , I went , my skis stayed on , and I like somersaulted over and my skis stayed on and I pulled the whole of my leg , it was black from just above my knee to there and it 's like just black my whole leg . |
| 57 | There 's this doorway with no light on and I trip over summat and have to grab a hold of the side . |
| 58 | So that accelerated my own ideas and I came over to England with that in mind . |
| 59 | I was nearly home and I come over queer . |
| 60 | The cop and I rolled over and over , crushing each other , towards the precipice . |