Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sow was very angry when we took her little boys away and tried to clamber over the wall of the sty . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 3 | ‘ A couple of blokes tried to go over the wall about a year ago . |
| 4 | They tried to leap over the sandbags , but were too slow . |
| 5 | The boys were waiting to cross the road here and the horse came down this lane , galloped straight across the road in front of the traffic then onto the pavement , tried to jump over the boys and jumped onto the boys . |
| 6 | Bourassa 's view of the package was overwhelmingly endorsed by a special 4,000-member Liberal Party convention in Quebec on Aug. 29-30 , at which the provincial Premier gave a powerful performance and promised to win over the population of Quebec at the October referendum . |
| 7 | She tried to walk over the rich green grass towards them , but her feet seemed glued in place . |
| 8 | She passed Seb Smith 's house one evening in the spring , taking a new route when exercising Midnight , and stopped to look over the hedge ( too high for nosers on foot ) into the Smith grounds . |
| 9 | The UK nevertheless intended to submit its own proposed amendments in January 1991 ( on the basis of Major 's June proposals for a parallel " hard ecu " — see p. 37521 ) , prompting European Commission President Jacques Delors to warn on Dec. 15 of a political crisis if the UK tried to stall over the issues of a single currency and a central bank . |
| 10 | Eventually Maidstone tried to scramble over the bar but he slipped and fell heavily onto the floor . |
| 11 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 12 | They lied at least four times last week as they tried to gloss over the seriousness of a plutonium spillage at the heart of their reprocessing operation . |
| 13 | She tried to gloss over the humiliation of it . |
| 14 | Are shoppers now expected to hover over the vegetable counter at the supermarket , stricken with anxiety trying to remember which greens cause cancer and which do not ? |
| 15 | But he could not resist holding the bird up to his desk lamp , so that the light ran across the surface and seemed to flow over the edges in crimson flame . |
| 16 | He came to stoop over the trussed man , tested his bonds with a fierce and agonising tug . |
| 17 | Even in death their lips were curled in a snarl ; their wizened faces and staring , blank eyes seemed to gloat over the evil they had planned . |
| 18 | Sancho meanwhile had himself crowned king of Leon , and thus came to rule over the most extensive kingdom in the whole of Christian Spain . |
| 19 | I meant to be at the station , but these people came to look over the house and I could n't get away . ’ |
| 20 | The machines in the spring department gave off choking fumes and a grey pall seemed to hang over the department … about 90 per cent of the work force are coloured , many of whom can not speak English . |
| 21 | The rest of the day was n't very clear to Benny because of the heavy cloud of disappointment that seemed to hang over the whole proceedings . |
| 22 | She seemed to skate over the next part of her story , but Julia grasped the salient part , which was that one of the English officers who fought with the Italians had fallen in love with her , promised to marry her and secretly made love to her . |
| 23 | Mum , Dad , Roland and Heather all came to stay over the Easter weekend which was really good fun . |
| 24 | But the plans failed because Adams and McGuinness failed to win over the IRA leadership . |
| 25 | Maidstone handed the photo back and turned to lean over the balustrade again . |
| 26 | He sought to negotiate over the following issues : |
| 27 | On the way home from school that afternoon she began to mull over the various possibilities , and when at last the germ of a brilliant idea hit her , she began to expand on it and lay her plans with the same kind of care the Duke of Wellington had done before the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 28 | It began to flow over the top . |
| 29 | — It was hard going at first , but after a while her hands began to flow over the keys in an easier , more assured style , and Laura found that she was able to relax , the soft chords and harmony having a soothing effect on her lacerated emotions . |
| 30 | The problem , as I began to discover over the years , does n't lie with the composer , it lies with the interpreters and what is expected from the interpreters by people who have dubious taste . |