Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] he over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 2 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 3 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 4 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 5 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 6 | There was a pause , than a woman 's reddened , raddled face squinted at him over the sill . |
| 7 | But Leopold soon found another source of grievance — the fact that Wolfgang had lied to him over the money he had earned . |
| 8 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 9 | It was not until a few weeks after her father had been installed that Dorothy began to realize the fortitude with which her mother had cared for him over the years . |
| 10 | Disagreeing with him over the patients ' preparatory period before inoculation , which he proposed to reduce from a month to eight or ten days , and recommending an open-air regime instead of confinement indoors following inoculation , Sutton left to set up his own practice at Ingatestone , Essex , in October 1763 . |
| 11 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |
| 12 | And er , see , my father , when they used to start the rounds , they used to start , go down the Fen on a Tuesday , er the man what worked for him over the road George worked for him there , a chap named George and my father used to go round Wicken , that 's three miles away from here . |
| 13 | It seemed to Joe that his mother was waiting behind the hall door for him , because no sooner had he entered the house than there she was , staring at him over the distance . |
| 14 | Tattling about him over the teacups . |
| 15 | Bursting from the trees ahead of him , three black shapes came hurtling towards him over the pine needle floor of the clearing . |
| 16 | If Amaranth was not going to be accepted as the candidate , and if she refused to co-operate with him over the new motorway , and if she rejected his amorous advances , what was the point of pursuing her ? |
| 17 | Michael Rosen 's collection of Rude Rhymes ( Signet , £3.99 ) sent to him over the years by members of the public are rather lavatorial — and that 's probably the best place to keep it . |
| 18 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 19 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 20 | Elinor looked at him over the rim of her magazine . |
| 21 | She looked at him over the top of her glass . |
| 22 | She looked at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 23 | I looked at him over the roof . |
| 24 | She looked at him over the top of her cup . |
| 25 | Ashley looked at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 26 | In deference to the apparent madness of King George III he agreed to the Lord Chamberlain 's proposal , as play censor , to omit Shakespeare 's King Lear from the repertory which told of a monarch similarly afflicted ; but clashed with him over The School for Scandal , the objections to which , however , he managed to resolve , bringing him a period of near prosperity . |
| 27 | The boss sounded agitated when I spoke to him over the phone . ’ |
| 28 | The children stood on the top step and spoke to him over the half-door . |
| 29 | She smiled at him over the table napkin , which was removing a minute trace of profiterole . |
| 30 | She beamed at him over the rim of her glass . |