Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , some who have for years looked after a spouse may sometimes have deeply resented the way that this has taken over their lives , particularly perhaps if this feels forced by cultural assumptions such as ‘ appropriate ’ roles for women in the domestic setting . |
| 2 | Merrill did n't hear the rest as he hurried away , before half turning to fling over his shoulder , apparently as an afterthought , ‘ Three minutes , Miss Stanton , and I 'll be with you . ’ |
| 3 | PAMELA : [ aside ] So happily did this storm blow over . |
| 4 | ‘ We just need some help to get over this short-term cash crisis , that 's all , ’ he informed the new financial controller , Welsh-born accountant , John James . |
| 5 | Gorbachev announced at the RSFSR Supreme Soviet on Aug. 23 that he and Yeltsin had each agreed to take over the other 's functions if an emergency so demanded . |
| 6 | There was a paymaster providing ready money to pay natives , and a signals officer controlling the flow of reports back to Australia and the incoming news of airdrops or bombing raids : essential organisation , for even the most independent force needed supplies , and these had to travel over hundreds of miles of mountain tracks before reaching some platoon areas . |
| 7 | To what extent do students study the history or sociology or economics of the discipline as a discipline , and the way in which these have changed over , say , the last century ? |
| 8 | And we 'll just check that out again , and make sure that that 's all got healed over . |
| 9 | Now it 's my turn to perform that task and I am sure you are all going to turn over a new leaf and make things easy for me . |
| 10 | We ca n't all go traipsin' over ter see Johnnie Buckram . ’ |
| 11 | Those tempted to wander over that dividing line can be forcefully reminded of it . |
| 12 | Middle-aged women working in the West German government have also been a favourite target for East German spies and several have passed over supposedly valuable information for a number of years before being caught . |
| 13 | There are changes in technology : electronic systems take over from the electromechanical mode typical of ‘ mass culture ’ ( just as that had taken over from the purely mechanical production and distribution methods of the earlier bourgeois period , epitomized by music printing ) . |
| 14 | We both went crashing over and a furious fight ensued until two big prefects dragged us apart . |