Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulls the top part of the metal cover further up , and the lower half sinks at the same time ; he reaches in and gathers an armful of logs , bringing them over to the hearth . |
| 2 | Er very often Australian Aboriginal societies you meet men the corroborees at these ritual gatherings and if you 're one of the club , then in the ritual they 'll tell you , they 'll say hey , you know , you know you know you say where did you get all these kangaroos you know oh we got them over at the so and so ranges or down at the so and so water hole that 's where they all are this week , and this is very important information for man . |
| 3 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 4 | you do is hang it over on the clothes line , stand back a few inches , just give it an even spray , |
| 5 | Lucy was left to kick around by the unmanned Reservations desk for a couple of minutes , and then a waiter appeared to lead her over to the table . |
| 6 | erm but ea she would n't bring him over to the phone , she said oh he 's too weak to come to the phone . |
| 7 | Maybe I should have turned it over to the locals … ’ |
| 8 | Do n't bring it over to the first character , leave it exactly where it is . |
| 9 | Just ask the porter would you help me carry it over to the next platform . |
| 10 | This feller said , ‘ I did n't alter me beat book ’ , and chief constable said , ‘ All right , we 'll send it over to the Forensic Department . ’ |
| 11 | He meets us over on the far side of the town at nine thirty P.M. ’ |
| 12 | When he handed them over to the Syrians , the major received a special word of thanks from representatives of the country which would , ten years later , help the Americans to bomb Libya . |
| 13 | On each overseas train , a team of fitters and lifters from the Works accompanied them to their destination and handed them over to the RAMC coupled up , and ready for use . |
| 14 | He denounced the entire coven of Slaanesh worshippers , including his mother , and handed them over to the Phoenix King . |
| 15 | He was nicknamed ‘ The Resurrection Man ’ because he would row up and down the river by night , fishing up floating bodies — and picking their pockets before he handed them over to the police and claimed his reward . |
| 16 | He then slowly pulled out some bank notes and furtively handed them over to the large man , who patted him on the back and quickly got off at the next station . |
| 17 | Together they rode across Hodge Beck and gathered up the flocks to look them over before the onset of winter . |
| 18 | Then , deciding she was no political , just another stroppy trucker , they 'd handed her over to the locals , which was a big relief . |
| 19 | She 'd been given a rail warrant to Lowestoft , where the RTO had handed her over to the navy . |
| 20 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
| 21 | After that , it took the agents four days to extract a confession from their prisoner on the USS Butte before turning him over to the US Navy for the 13 hour 10 minute flight to Washington , a new solo record for a carrier-based aircraft carrying a second-hand car dealer . |
| 22 | They caught a suspicious individual one evening , and turned him over to the police ; but he turned out to be a frightened bilberry-picker who had lost his way . |
| 23 | Oddly , much credit for this advance has also to be given to Pius X who , in 1909 , founded the Biblical Institute ( the Biblicum ) in Rome and handed it over to the charge of the Jesuits , the Dominicans having earlier founded the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem . |
| 24 | Er they went , had a look , took the appropriate action and er phoned the police and handed it over to the police . |
| 25 | ‘ Surely Maurice would have known what it was — and handed it over to the kidnappers accordingly . ’ |
| 26 | Harland 's chairman , Dr John Parker , was n't sad to see the ship go this week when he handed it over to the Navy in a ceremony at Cammell Laird shipyard on Merseyside . |
| 27 | The poet picked it up and handed it over to the Time Lord . |
| 28 | I turned it over to the studio and went to work on The Roots of Heaven , and apparently John Wayne took over after I left . |
| 29 | I I turned it over in the end . |
| 30 | All the Official Custodian was doing was receiving the income and paying it over to the charities . |