Example sentences of "[v-ing] over and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The the thing is Yeah , I mean anything Rather than travelling , telephone , because you have to run up an awful lot of telephone calls before it 's worth driving over and doing it |
| 2 | Should you not suspend the sitting until there is someone on the Tory Benches who is capable of walking over and picking up the notes to the Minister ? |
| 3 | He was also ordered to forfeit £150 from a previous binding over and bound over again for a year in the sum of £250 . |
| 4 | Use to cover the cake drum , smoothing over and trimming away excess around the base . |
| 5 | Roll out half the marzipan on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to a circle for covering the cake , and press on , smoothing over and trimming away excess around the base . |
| 6 | He had just time to form them up and move a little way forward himself from their hiding-place , to where he could see the ford and its approaches on either side , when the first fleeing riders came pounding down , splashing over and racing on . |
| 7 | As Bob looked at it , the hand performed a sudden evolution like a conjuring-trick , turning over and producing from nowhere a pack of American cigarettes , with one of the cigarettes extended towards Bob . |
| 8 | ‘ A nice fresh herring , ’ he murmured , turning over and going back to sleep . |
| 9 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Blake ! ’ she said with enthusiasm , going over and plopping herself down on the bench beside him . |
| 11 | instead of sort of going over and saying what a marvellous job we did here er and then saying yeah fantastic |
| 12 | It 's happening now , it 's always progressing and it 's always going on and you 're never going to reach an end point , you 're never going to reach a final point , whereas with something like history , I find it 's interesting , but you 're always going over and analysing what 's happened , it 's that much more backward looking , whereas science applied has got more constructive . |
| 13 | ‘ So how 's about moving over and letting me get on with it , eh ? |
| 14 | And there it teetered for a few seconds before finally toppling over and falling with a sharp tinkle on to the desk-top . |
| 15 | I would be flying over and staying with Angie for a couple of weeks at The Sherry Netherland , and Angie and I would go with Zowie in the daytime and then we 'd stay up all night with David because he functioned at night . |
| 16 | He was there ; she saw the Alsatian first , it came flying over and knocked Magnus sideways . |
| 17 | Sleepily she tried to adjust for this situation , flipping over and snuggling into the heated surface of his chest . |
| 18 | I 'm quite amenable to people coming over and using my phone for making business-related phone calls . |
| 19 | But you 've put the finishing touch to my Christmas , Linda , coming over and sparing the time when you 're so busy . |
| 20 | It 's no good coming over and looking at me like that Rick . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's always the case of black people having to go mainstream to be accepted , instead of us doing our shit how we wan na do it and them coming over and taking a look , ’ says Roger D. ‘ We 're doing it for ourselves now . |
| 22 | ‘ A servant ? ’ said Miss Mates , coming over and taking Sally-Anne 's hand . |
| 23 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 24 | And then David 's coming over and having three weeks , so she 'll be over seven weeks |
| 25 | You can soon go and ask them cos some git 's gon na be coming over and hitting you for taking the |
| 26 | Magnus and the Alsatian , attracted by the noise , came running over and began leaping up at them and barking in wild excitement , their panting mouths leaving clouds in the chill air . |
| 27 | ‘ Ross … ! ’ she cried , running over and throwing herself into his arms . |
| 28 | She gave a little shriek of surprise , then felt herself tipping over and grabbed at his jacket to save herself . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's right , ’ said Connon , reaching over and taking the tickets . |
| 30 | Skipping ropes are popular and can be used for many activities as well as skipping , jumping over and crawling under . |