Example sentences of "[noun] he had [verb] over " in BNC.

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1 Bankruptcy sharply lowered Hooley 's social position , but made less difference to his lifestyle , not least because before his crash he had made over to his wife both Papworth and Risley Hall and their contents .
2 The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards .
3 He stared steadily outwards towards the ducks and flamingos while Kraal mantled his plumage , let out a harsh call or two and dropped down into the shelter to pick at the remnant of meat he had left over from the previous day .
4 The object he had tripped over was the pistol ; it was so heavy that it was all he could do to raise it .
5 That morning he had walked over to the Hoflin farm and asked Suzi to go to the cinema with him that evening , after her class .
6 Sometimes he would secretly watch other eagles whose territory he had trespassed over , to learn from them the art of quartering back and forth over an area to find prey and flush it out
7 Three times he had to pull over to examine the map .
8 Would he ever know which friends and fellows he had delivered over to the government in that one fatally careless moment ?
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