Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] over the " in BNC.

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1 By using the back heel placed on the centreline , pull the back of the board towards you thereby making it infinitely easier for the rig to pull you over the board .
2 Frankie backed away as the animal 's snarling head and powerful front legs hooked themselves over the top of the gate and her back legs struggled for a foot-hold on the curves of wrought iron .
3 We had dinner with Jochen and Ingrid and Jochen showed us over the school .
4 He should be back by now ! ’ ran through his mind as the wheel threw them over the top again .
5 He half stood up as Myeloski came towards him , when an aircraft called him over the radio .
6 His predecessor , Centwine , abdicated on his conversion to enter a monastery , but of the details of the process by which Caedwalla established himself over the western Saxons nothing is known .
7 In any event , a few particularly strident voices denounced me over the agreement .
8 Richard Branson saved us over the boredom .
9 He must have a suitcase of handkerchiefs , Trent thought as he met the Latino 's cold eyes studying him over the crisp white linen barricade .
10 Murren has a huge variety of signposted walks to take you over the hills and into the mountains .
11 ‘ The commission took into consideration their record over the past five years , ’ said Graham Kelly , the FA 's chief executive , ‘ but they also noted that they had taken steps to improve it over the last 18 months . ’
12 Elsewhere , individual protesters were being held down while Mosley 's guards beat them over the head and about the face .
13 It was reproduced in the Boston underground paper , and the following year , when Jean Luc Godard came to England to film British Sounds , Rowbotham read it over the soundtrack .
14 Ant : You do n't like school discos " cos your mum turned up at the last one at nine o'clock to take you home , and Fungus announced it over the mike .
15 At one point they fell out and Schine chased Cohn through a hotel lobby swatting him over the head with a rolled-up magazine , to the delight of the large Press corps , who wrote stories headlined after the dialogue of the famous duo , ‘ Positively , Mr Cohn ! ’ and ‘ Absolutely , Mr Schine ! ’
16 Another added a series of syllables which sounded like yumyumyum to help him over the blocks .
17 The Fat Controller addressed me over the sounds of her orgasm , paying no attention to them at all .
18 Mean Malcolm whistles at him , an old lady helps him over the road , teacher expects his writing to be tidy and he has to read the part of the spineless Rapunzel .
19 The trip home took them over the Bay of Biscay , and they descended ‘ on the deck ’ as planned , flying no more than 100 feet above the water .
20 Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them .
21 The right to wear them over the left breast pocket instead of on the sleeve was granted to those who had taken part in three trips behind the lines .
22 With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing .
23 The success rate of lawyers was consistently better than that of trades union representatives and of individuals representing themselves over the four years from 1979 to 1982 covered ( DoE , 1984 ) .
24 The Court of Appeal held that his dismissal was fair and that it was not vitiated by a failure to consult him over the reorganisation .
25 Despite being filled with an overwhelming love and compassion for her husband , who was single-handedly fighting off one of the world 's largest corporations , she 'd also been swept by a strong desire to bash him over the head with his own fax machine !
26 The first time Nathan knew for certain that something was n't right was when Donald smashed him over the head with a can of beans .
27 ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain .
28 A spokesman said : ‘ The damage may have been caused by the surf dragging them over the rocks .
29 And if they are criminals , Israel has no right to push them over the border into a neighbouring land .
30 Rebecca West , representing the polite world of letters at this proletarian scene of retribution , was being told by an elderly man how he had come back from viewing his grandchildren 's bodies at the public mortuary and heard the voice of the condemned criminal mocking him over the radio .
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