Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I put my hands out to explore what I had tripped over . |
| 2 | I had to bend over , parallel to the body , to get the nail file under the nails . |
| 3 | As she did this , she told me a chant I had to say over and over again . |
| 4 | Yeah , but , I had to take over , where she left off . |
| 5 | I had to go over to them and say , I 'm sorry but we 're going to have to close for a bit . |
| 6 | Of course , I had to go over and see to them . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to go over and get it in person . |
| 9 | No , I 've had , no I 've go , I had to go over to shit ! |
| 10 | Sometimes , after I 'd given them back their money , the customer would open the palm of their hand and I would discover that one of the coins I had passed over had suddenly disappeared so I ended up having to give them even more bees and honey . |
| 11 | Yeah well I could n't so I had to come over and and buy them a flipping new one ! |
| 12 | Compasses capable of drawing arcs of this size are rare , so I used a thin strip of 7x1mm mahogany I had left over from some modelling , it 's available at most model shops and is excellent stuff , if a trifle expensive . |
| 13 | I painted all mine white with some paint I had left over from an Airfix model of Apollo 11 but all I managed to do was clog up the mechanism . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to jump over a hedge , ’ she said , ‘ and I tore my bloomers . ’ |
| 15 | Folly cast her eye down the column of names , but it ran off the bottom of the page and she had to turn over . |
| 16 | ‘ She had travelled over with her boyfriend and did n't know the system . |
| 17 | There were two dry docks and if she had veered over , she 'd have gone into the oil storage area . |
| 18 | When the food was all served and before the entertainments began , she had gone over to speak to him . |
| 19 | Susan had evidently found some coal and sticks and had lit the range ; then the heat had overcome her , and she had toppled over — and her jumper had caught fire . |
| 20 | All the children , except Millie , scrambled from the room : she had staggered over to a side wall and was leaning against it , her hands hanging by her side , her mouth wide open to let her gasping breath free . |
| 21 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |
| 22 | For Jay , many things in life had been easy , a walk-over , ; she had leapt over and through the academic hurdles and hoops of childhood and teenage with a lazy facility that she only realised later . |
| 23 | Still in her wrap , she had hurried over to the drawer where the letters were kept . |
| 24 | She herself had never aspired to a career , finding complete satisfaction in acting as her husband 's typist and research assistant in the time she had left over from gardening and housekeeping . |
| 25 | She had driven over to him after the metamorphosis had been completed to her satisfaction — not just the punk hair-do , short spiky , crimson-dyed and outrageous — and the make-up , orange domino mask and a curve of ochre on the cheeks — but clothes , too , tight , tarty , as far removed from the Victorian image as possible . |
| 26 | Once clear of the cloud , she had handed over the controls to him and taught him how to use the power and propeller pitch levers , how to bank the plane sharply , how to descend and climb with power and nose attitude . |
| 27 | She had taken over Nigel 's old bike . |
| 28 | She had taken over the caravan and his life . |
| 29 | It was almost the first news story she had taken over the newsroom headphones and she knew the absolute importance of accuracy . |
| 30 | She rose early and spent the morning with Aunt Emily or visiting the kitchen and garden and orchard and doing the household accounts and the correspondence she had taken over from her aunt . |