Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've obviously enjoyed your career very much and we 've all enjoyed you over the years , would you be pleased if your grandchildren went into acting ? |
| 2 | Then , with delicate movements of his webbed hind feet , toes distended so that they form a fan , he gathers up the eggs and gently spreads them over the female 's back . |
| 3 | The model does not make it over the top of the loop and starts to fall inverted . |
| 4 | ‘ If you want to throw up , at least you can just do it over the side . ’ |
| 5 | Yes and I thought it was mucking it up so I just swapped it over the way it was . |
| 6 | ‘ Could n't you just drop it over the edge ? ’ suggested Patrick . |
| 7 | that was cos of the fat , the fat so as they just lay it over the top and put the potatoes and onions |
| 8 | it 'll only be until I should think erm next Tuesday will be the last batch , cos we 've got these bank holidays fortunately in the , in the way where I T still work but we do n't and so they 're gon na fix , they 'll carry on fixing it over the weekend . |
| 9 | Barbara once asked her over the phone . |
| 10 | It 's a move we have practised so many times in training and I always send them over the bar . |
| 11 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 12 | Defries could hardly hear her over the rain . |
| 13 | ‘ But if that had been somebody else doing that to you … ’ she says softly , so that I can hardly hear her over the quiet thunder of the shower . |
| 14 | Whereas the three unbreakable makes of 1930 were distributed by record shops in the usual way , you ordered your Durium records from your newsagent , so a pair of new hits were delivered through your letterbox once a week , like magazines ( you could also buy them over the counter , of course ) . |
| 15 | Once you are satisfied that the glass is spotless , carefully place it over the top of the design . |
| 16 | Using your hands and arms dusted with icing sugar to support the fondant , carefully drape it over the cake . |
| 17 | I nearly hit him over the head , I thought it was Jason . |
| 18 | He 'll probably take them over the Carron and put them into the coille torr , the forest there , for the night . |
| 19 | She thought fleetingly of the weapon he might have picked up to strike her over the head as she sat at his mercy . |
| 20 | For example , the child who has been taught and has learned to make his babysitter laugh whenever he plays with her can not also hit her over the head with a toy when he is playing with her . |
| 21 | They also really used me over the T-shirts which got them busted — and persuaded them to change the shop name from Sex to Seditionaries . |
| 22 | What 's really moved me over the last three or four years , as AIDS has become a major threat in this country , and especially since spring 1985 with the rising public hysteria about it , is that it 's brought out tremendous reserves of strength in lesbians and gay men which show the importance of the achievements of the previous fifteen years . |
| 23 | Mike , an ex-philosophy student , was going off to Germany in the New Year ; Naomi from Bristol was about to embark on a Museum Studies course at university ; Liane , a weights and measures official , was one of the many volunteers who had helped at Uppark after the fire ; and Hugh , a quantity surveyor currently between jobs , set out to astound us over the next few days with his minimalist clothing ( some ancient jeans which were fashionably ripped at the crotch and a pair of lurid , exceedingly short shorts ) . |
| 24 | I might even throw you over the battlements myself when I 've finished with you . |
| 25 | ‘ What 's so urgent and private that you could n't discuss it over the telephone ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't discuss it over the phone . |
| 27 | Dick said something , but she could n't catch it over the din from the engines . |
| 28 | There were so many mistakes I could n't do it over the telephone . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't send you over the wall , you realize that ? ’ |
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