Example sentences of "[conj] had [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the days before floodlighting it was obvious that a game starting at five o'clock could not possibly run its full course , but the referee went ahead , fearing trouble from a crowd that had waited over two hours . |
| 2 | You 've seen it on the one that had gone over . |
| 3 | They had checked similar seats that had been subjected to the rough and tumble of Metropolitan Police life , and ones that had supported over 70,000 miles , and they were all right as rain . |
| 4 | We have the president of the board of trade and industry making a stirring speech and saying that four hundred and forty proposals as a result of the booklet called cutting red tape were either being implemented or under active consideration and he talked about the explanatory guide to the bill , the new scrutiny committee that might be set up in each house , he spoke about the business task forces that had made over six hundred recommendations the debate I thought heralded was er er I thought the debate heralded er er a new age where over zealous officialdom would be a thing of the past . |
| 5 | Oh the by-pass road , you know the north northern part of Ipswich , along the by-pass and of course had ordered trolley buses , because you had to order 'em about two years ahead of time , erm , to take care of that but it did n't materialize and we had a surplus of buses and some of them were sold off , I think some went to Walsall , some to Wolverhampton and er I , I think it was one of those that was sold to Wals Woolwich , figured in the national newspapers that had toppled over . |
| 6 | The eighteen morning survivors in 1989 were the remnants of an army that had numbered over fifty in 1900 . |
| 7 | And although Bryan Forbes made a stab at backing British filmmakers as head or production for EMI , the company that had taken over ABPC in 1969 , announcing 14 projects within months of taking over his new post , the line-up did not give the impression that he was in touch with any new sources of cinematic excitement . |
| 8 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 9 | Among the other guests lunching were Mr Paul Marmin the managing director of Boucheron , and Mrs Marmin ; Mr and Mrs Hamish Renton , he is a director of Boucheron ; Mr and Mrs Eric Arnott , he is one of the world 's greatest eye surgeons , and had flown over to America that Thursday on a professional trip and flown home on Saturday . |
| 10 | They had been flying for 16 hours 12 minutes , had survived two bad storms and had flown over 1,800 miles of ocean . |
| 11 | Michael was looking over the top of a cliff at them and had to fall over , hanging in mid-air . |
| 12 | For six years up to the war , they had raised millions to help their German cousins and had absorbed over 60,000 refugees , not all of them living off charity by any means , but with the great majority owing thanks to Jewish organisations for giving them a new start . |
| 13 | The CVR , also known as the Rettig Commission after its chairman Raúl Rettig , a former Supreme Court judge , had been set up in April 1990 and had taken over 4,000 testimonies during its research . |
| 14 | Later , on July 25 , Blix said that three inspection teams had so far visited more than 30 sites in Iraq and had taken over 300 samples of nuclear material , but that " there are many more things to answer " . |
| 15 | Yakovlev had been editor of Moskovskiye novosti , a newspaper which had extended the boundaries of freedom of speech during the perestroika period , and had taken over the chairmanship of All-Union Television and Radio ( which became Ostankino in December 1991 " see p. 38655 ) in August 1991 after the failed coup [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 16 | But as well as indicating strong loyalist sympathies in the town , he had to inform that these were evidently not shared by Bruce 's own nephew , the new Earl of Carrick , Edward Bruce 's second son , who was lord there now and had handed over the castle , with his allegiance , to the usurper . |
| 17 | Jerry Rawlings ( who had also staged a successful coup in June 1979 against the then military rulers , and had handed over power to President Hilla Limann in September of that year ) . |
| 18 | Complete results of the July 29 elections were not available as of mid-August , but according to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Aug. 16 the MPRP had received at least 60 per cent of the votes and had won over 340 of the 430 seats in the People 's Great Hural . |
| 19 | one of Mrs Tibbs 's boarders , ‘ an Irishman recently imported ’ who was ‘ in a perfectly wild state ; and had come over to England to be an apothecary , a clerk in a government office , an actor , a reporter , or anything else that turned up — he was not particular ’ . |
| 20 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 21 | I was terrified but had to go over . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It had started as a game but had taken over their lives , almost . |