Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've lost four games , but have n't been playing that badly , whereas last season we got turned over at Aston Villa and Everton . |
| 2 | I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step . |
| 3 | Then , her arms under his and locked on his chest , she 'd drag my father 's dead weight from wherever he 'd fallen over to the cushions . |
| 4 | She 'd moved over into the makeup chair and had been studying her own face in the mirror . |
| 5 | She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped . |
| 6 | She 'd handed over to Madeleine . |
| 7 | He 'd gone over to the hedge that ran along each side of the white lodge and he 'd sat down . |
| 8 | But there 's a couple of guys in another division over there that they were quite keen on er aircraft and they spent weeks building these bloody things and then er , and experienced flyer he 'd taken over to the other , other side of the estate when he had a bit of runway over there |
| 9 | When he 'd started regaining his confidence he told us that he 'd taken over from Terry in the endless arguments with David Jacobsen . |
| 10 | He 'd taken over from Hercule Riquard as maître de chai , and he poured his whole life into promoting La Tour Monchauzet wines into a class of their own . |
| 11 | A few of them would have been a serious giveaway in any frontier search , but these she 'd covered over with postcard views bought from the Europiskaya Hotel . |
| 12 | And er course we went about three weeks before that then we got invited over for tea . |
| 13 | I was eating my tea that afternoon — they would n't let me go too — and I got called over to the Centre [ the prison officers ' operational centre within the prison ] . |
| 14 | I was really pissed off because I was watching the U21 England match , and when it finished turned over during the ‘ adverts ’ . |
| 15 | The puissant alien walked crouched over in a permanent posture of attack so that the horns along its spine projected highest . |
| 16 | ‘ It was pretty close for a while , but in the last two sets I got run over by a Mack truck , ’ said Navratilova , who told the crowd that next year will probably be her last year of competing on the tour as a singles player . |
| 17 | That time he played a yellow cab driver and got run over by his own cab . |
| 18 | He got run over by an articulated lorry . |
| 19 | Among the other guests lunching were Mr Paul Marmin the managing director of Boucheron , and Mrs Marmin ; Mr and Mrs Hamish Renton , he is a director of Boucheron ; Mr and Mrs Eric Arnott , he is one of the world 's greatest eye surgeons , and had flown over to America that Thursday on a professional trip and flown home on Saturday . |
| 20 | ‘ She had travelled over with her boyfriend and did n't know the system . |
| 21 | When she had aimed the bottle at Gazzer 's head , years of pent-up hurt and frustration had spilled over into violence : violence which she had previously directed against herself or had lived through only in her mind . |
| 22 | In early 1988 is seemed as if the conflicts of the Middle East had spilled over into the strange world of British fascism . |
| 23 | She found herself half listening to his gossip , her mind drifting away to Piers and Nicole , wondering whether the day they were spending together had spilled over into night , and whether her husband suspected anything about what was between them . |
| 24 | After the fighting had spilled over into Thailand , Thai forces responded with helicopter and fighter-bomber attacks against Khun Sa 's soldiers . |
| 25 | Adam had fallen over in the playground , hit his head on a bench , been taken to hospital . |
| 26 | Even Michael Bridges , the Echo man ( Kegan had leaned over to Briant and pointed him out as soon as he came in ) , sat sprawled in seeming boredom in his chair at the end of the front row . |
| 27 | Under the high side there was a grey Buick that I had seen Harvey driving and a long black Lincoln Continental that looked like the President of the United States had come over for pizza and beer . |
| 28 | Even when Liz had come over for Mr Harding 's funeral , which had taken place just over a year ago , Laura had n't felt able to explain all of the difficulties she had faced . |
| 29 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 30 | one of Mrs Tibbs 's boarders , ‘ an Irishman recently imported ’ who was ‘ in a perfectly wild state ; and had come over to England to be an apothecary , a clerk in a government office , an actor , a reporter , or anything else that turned up — he was not particular ’ . |