Example sentences of "[vb past] it over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dinah queened it over the teapot , smiling bravery , Nathan Holland at her elbow . |
| 2 | ‘ What I regret is that we did n't force the bank into this situation 15 months ago when we first approached it over the demerger . |
| 3 | He pushed her back into the room and , seizing the case , opened it and upended it over the bed . |
| 4 | He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip . |
| 5 | So it would start the timing mechanism running at the moment it dropped it over the side . |
| 6 | Taking off her jacket , she dropped it over the back of a chair and picked distastefully at the damp folds of her burgundy skirt . |
| 7 | Yes and I thought it was mucking it up so I just swapped it over the way it was . |
| 8 | Er Webb , Webb missed the first one blasted it over the top and Giggs missed one at the end . |
| 9 | In the twenty seventh minute , Abingdon scored their second when Darren Hickey played an excellent ball through to Aries and Aries lobbed it over the advancing keeper into the back of the net with Kevin Connelly following up to make certain . |
| 10 | And he booked it over the phone , said Is it a standard flat ? which was a silly thing to ask cos to everybody who lives in a house , they 've a standard amount of furniture . |
| 11 | She lifted it over the fence and set off across the little meadow , gathering speed and thoroughly enjoying it . |
| 12 | ‘ These people got abusive because we would n't take their drugs so I just grabbed this bag of s*** and poured it over the floor . |
| 13 | Alida hauled up the eiderdown from the floor , threw it over the width of the bed , And I , she thought bitterly , I am not young , not a girl , to bend and stoop and struggle with making and tidying this great bed . |
| 14 | Mrs Taylor gave Frankie and me a piece of bread pudding each but we did n't like the smell of it so we threw it over the wall on the way back to our house . |
| 15 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |
| 16 | He raised it , threw it over the small postbox gate . |
| 17 | Theodore Lawton ejected the cartridge , took another one , and fired it over the side . |
| 18 | In the heat of the kitchen she had removed her costume jacket and hung it over the back of a nearby chair . |
| 19 | There was a rustle beside her as Gladys removed a shapeless cardigan and hung it over the back of the adjoining chair . |
| 20 | By ten-thirty , Beth had cleared away the breakfast things , washed the dishes and stacked them into the big dresser , wiped down the kitchen table , taken the coconut matting from the floor and hung it over the line outside where she beat every speck of dust from it before replacing it over her freshly scrubbed quarry tiles ; all that done she was now enjoying a cup of tea , before setting about the drawing room . |
| 21 | She removed her jacket and hung it over the hook on the kitchen door , and did the same with her hat , then warily walked into the living-room . |
| 22 | When at last I came to the start of the mad little road to Lochinver , I followed it over the bleak moorland , Stac Polly now appearing as a black spire in a halo of sunlight . |
| 23 | I heard it over the radio . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Alex Household must have said it just before he shot the gun ; Micky heard it over the deaf-aid and just repeated it . ’ |
| 25 | Well well I do , I heard it over the weekend in fact , that I can er , have er , another BUPA medical to start with . |
| 26 | Raised from Lock Oich in the Scottish Highlands in July , the Hurricane crashed there on August 31 , 1941 after an engine fire disabled it over the Highlands . |
| 27 | Lee took hold of the bike and pulled it over the fence . |
| 28 | The pimp took the strip and placed it over the other girl 's mouth . |
| 29 | But one evening after a day 's shooting on Sergeant Ryker in 1963 , Marvin was continually baited by a drunk until Marvin grabbed a banjo from somewhere and smashed it over the other man 's head , drawing blood and knocking out his teeth . |
| 30 | When the crew proposed to surrender , Ferrar persuaded them to fight , ‘ firing the most phlegmatic by recounting how our ancestors lorded it over the sea and were renowned over all the world for their naval victories ’ : they were saved by the arrival on the scene of another vessel . |