Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to go over there just to see how dockers worked over there , to see if I could improve it here , well I could n't because dockers would n't do what they , they were doing in Holland . |
| 2 | I had to strain over the table to pick up the words . |
| 3 | ‘ The roof has leaked for a year , ’ John said , ‘ and I had to cover over the electrics to protect them from the rain . |
| 4 | Because when I went up I had to climb over the steel plate . |
| 5 | Well I had to climb over the wall and fucking jump there . |
| 6 | When a bather wanted more hot water , he or she had to shout over the noise of filling baths and protesting bathers and the Duchesse singing , and depending on how this eccen-tric woman felt , she would either top up the water from a source outside the cubicles or tell the bather his time was up . |
| 7 | Lady James , you had to come over a water bridge at er , her stud . |
| 8 | It had upset him at the time , but you had to get over stuff like that or you 'd go to the wall . |
| 9 | In the end they had to go over the Bishop 's head , obtaining the authorization they wanted from the Pope . |
| 10 | In it , he was filmed diving overboard in one scene , and in order to get the sequence right , he had to dive over the side seven times . |
| 11 | He had to hunch over the wheel to see anything . |
| 12 | As the senior member of the Regency Council he had to preside over the disgrace , leading to execution , of his ally and friend Protector Somerset . |
| 13 | Well it will be upstairs cos there 's a pillow up no , no , hey listen he complained because he had to step over the pillow , that 's it ! |
| 14 | But if the defendant lost , he was ordered to pay his outstanding debt by instalments and if he defaulted on any one of them , he had to pay over the rest in one lump . |