Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 2 | Perhaps there was someone behind me who was just about to hit me over the head . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't worry … you can sleep alone — I can take a hint that I 'm not wanted without you having to hit me over the head with it , ’ he finished bitterly . |
| 4 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 5 | So that got me over the turkey . |
| 6 | Where he did have strong personal views , he proved less willing or less able to implement them over the opposition of others . |
| 7 | I 'll propose Emily 's report and , and in doing so I 'd like to say thank you to her for her sterling work this year , I think she 's done a terrific job erm and I 'd like to thank her personally for the help she 's given me over the year . |
| 8 | ‘ To drive them over the top ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ George read me over a list of CIA personnel who were in London in the late Sixties — ’ |
| 10 | For I remember us doing a flipping er a family came to Wyre once and we were on the same old coble we were er doing the flipping and we thought we had nothing to do but take the rope off their heads and push them over the side of the coble onto the side of the small jetty . |
| 11 | To disappear the young men into their own terrain , make use of every cave and wood ( and send them over the water if need be ) ? |
| 12 | It 's a move we have practised so many times in training and I always send them over the bar . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Hon. Members can buy them over the counter in a chemist 's shop . |
| 15 | We all take drugs in some form or another , some are legal , you can buy them over the counter or your G P may prescribe , those are illegal , but still widely available and used at a price . |
| 16 | For some reason though , the evil Krip does n't have the sense to smash all the records and has instead scattered them over the island . |
| 17 | She would need them over the weekend , God willing . |
| 18 | When you 've done that , open the saloon deck hatch and put the sweaters on hangers , then hook them over the coaming . |
| 19 | I heard the noise , and had my hand halfway to my gun when somebody beat me over the head with the Empire State Building . |
| 20 | Many of them just lie there helplessly until somebody manhandles them over the side of the boat . |
| 21 | But I met a man on the road to the other village — I 've pursued them over the mountain from Keswick and you know the road divides two ways — and he swore they had come this way . ’ |
| 22 | Your father did the right thing by you did n't he , he helped you over the court case . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then the orderly beats him over the head , pumps a couple of .38 's into Mahoney with a silenced gun , turns round and walks out . |
| 25 | Her husband lowered his paper and regarded her over the top of it . |
| 26 | He regarded her over the rim of the brandy glass , captivated by her looks . |
| 27 | She paused and regarded him over the top of her glass . |
| 28 | Then , as he simply smiled , she regarded him over the top of it . |
| 29 | 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 ! ’ |
| 30 | Bent her over the bathroom stool , whipped out the Novocaine cream and Bob 's your auntie . |