Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb -s] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island . |
| 3 | What else , after all , was Christ in his death but the keenest image of abjection and arrogance , the epitome of that transgressive masochism which has played such an important part in making and unmaking our culture , not least in the figure of the martyr , and which figures over and again in the cultural depictions of the crucifix ? |
| 4 | I mean , if somebody says , ‘ Do n't step on my blue suede shoes ’ , and somebody comes over and steps on his blue suede shoes , what does that guy think is gon na happen to him ? ’ |
| 5 | James pushes Sandra and she falls over onto the cake that Sharon has just baked in cookery . |
| 6 | Isabelle 's lids grow heavy and she falls over , her head cocked to one side . |
| 7 | They embrace , then separate , and one goes over to a woman in the crowd with a child cradled in her arms . |
| 8 | And Eddie goes , let's use sellotape so he got all this sellotape all over him and he 's like like mummified in sellotape and then they , he goes right , we 're the hard men and we 're really gon na tell him who 's boss so erm and he goes over to him and he goes hello , erm , and he goes what are we going to say ? |
| 9 | and the other girl and they go to this very chichi Chinese restaurant and when they walk in the manager of the restaurant recognizes his father who is obviously a very important man in China before the revolution and he goes over , chats so in honour of the Mr Moo Bing , you know |
| 10 | I say yes and he keels over , being asleep before his head reaches the floor , his shoulders and arms still out of the bag . |
| 11 | ‘ The very first night I played with him , he 's up there blowing and he walks over to me and says , ‘ Play somethin' , Robben . ’ |
| 12 | And he rolls over and then he sort of put his legs up . |
| 13 | Then we 're at the desk and he leans over all cocky like and actually gets hold of my chin and says , ‘ Why so glum , my fair one ? ’ |
| 14 | You scramble on to it and it topples over ; you feel you will never learn the strange , simple secret . |
| 15 | You only have to look at a prole in this book and it rolls over to have its tummy tickled . |
| 16 | Richards holds that in poetry the function of " feeling " tends to dominate that of " sense " , while Jakobson identifies a special " poetic " function , which can be found in many uses of language , but which dominates over other functions in poetry . |
| 17 | I turn away so I ca n't look at her , but she leans over and looks me straight in the face . |
| 18 | Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind . |
| 19 | This is a useful Bill , but it papers over only one crack . |