Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week , he was relief-managing a pub in Rotherham and I 'd arranged to drive over to see him after 11 p.m . |
| 2 | None seemed to begrudge handing over the thousands of dollars in tolls payable in cash by each ship to the Canal Commission , which brought in more than £150 million in 1988 . |
| 3 | The hire car would be running up a heavy bill , but apart from the advance that he 'd had to hand over Forester had no intention of paying it . |
| 4 | He was wearing a blue fleecy sleeping suit embroidered with ducks from which his round face seemed to have spilled over , still and pink as a porcelain , Painted doll , the delicate lashes brush-tipped on the plump cheeks . |
| 5 | He seemed to have slid over nearer to me , though I had n't seen him move . |
| 6 | Now Dan seemed to have taken over . |
| 7 | They both came under the orders of the elderly Lambert , who seemed to have taken over the running of the stable almost entirely from his master . |
| 8 | The Commission had taken seriously its constitutional role of initiating proposals , and seemed poised to take over some of the work load allotted by the treaty to the Council of Ministers . |
| 9 | And Arianna had been in love with him , or at least , she 'd thought she was , until he 'd begun taking over her life . |
| 10 | He thrust his hands deep into his pockets , hunching his shoulders as he continued , ‘ I met her at the party I threw to celebrate taking over control of the company . |
| 11 | The Duma defied the Tsar , who suspended them , and formed a government , which they declared to have taken over all power in Russia . |
| 12 | As the time for the funeral approached , so the RUC began to arrive to take over on point duty from the UDR , who then merged into the background but nevertheless maintained a discreet but ever-watchful presence . |
| 13 | But on Thursday he will be given the chance to resurrect an international career which looked dead and buried , and urged to start knocking over Australian wickets in more orthodox fashion ! |
| 14 | We can not let them get too far ahead as it will become too great a gap to close even if they did happen to fall over their showlaces again . |
| 15 | Over the next few days considerable numbers of Croats in smaller groups did manage to cross over into Austria at various points along the frontier . |
| 16 | At length , I did manage to roll over and sit up . |
| 17 | Antonia said if Mr Mellor had intended resigning over their affair ‘ he would have done so long ago — or would have been forced to do so long ago ’ . |
| 18 | Sometimes I would hear conversations about the war when some of the older men in the dale came to chat and have a cup of tea in the kitchen with Uncle Tommy , who had come to take over Low Birk Hatt after Father died . |
| 19 | Women had come to take over men 's jobs as platform , goods , and parcel-porters , ticket-collectors , and engine cleaners . |
| 20 | Victoria had been playing gin rummy with her , and Shelley had come to take over . |
| 21 | In the eighth century , as the Franks had imposed their domination over those they called " subject peoples " , Frankish kings had come to rule over many regna , not only far west as well as east of the Rhine , but beyond the Alps and beyond the Pyrenees . |
| 22 | Another American writer , Walter Lippmann , argued that in the liberal democracies " mass opinion " had come to dominate over governments , and that this represented " a functional derangement of the relationship between the mass of the people and the government " . |
| 23 | In the meantime various troubles had flared up throughout the world -America had become involved in Korea ; France was involved in both Algiers ( who were seeking independence ) and Indo-China ; whilst Britain became involved in retaliation against the Egyptian government which had threatened to take over the Suez Canal . |
| 24 | The restoration of the monarchy , he said , would bring back the communism and anarchy which had threatened to take over the country before the Civil War . |
| 25 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 26 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
| 27 | The tax on all registrations was eventually repealed in the October of 1794 , but in the meantime Charles the Cheesemonger had had to hand over ninepence of his hard-earned money to have his little brood 's details entered in the Anglican parish register , having already spent sixpence in the same way for Mary and Sarah in the October of 1784 . |
| 28 | She had no idea how he knew Kattina was in police custody , or that she had agreed to take over the job . |
| 29 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 30 | Balfourier 's ‘ Iron ’ XX Corps had now reached the front in its entirety ; two further corps were on their way , and a third standing by ; Haig , with rather ill grace , had agreed to take over a further sector of the line from the French , so an adequate supply of reinforcements seemed assured . |