Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 2 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 3 | ‘ I have to admit we let him down over the gearbox which was slipping out of sixth gear and we have apologised for that . |
| 4 | He had grabbed hold of Cliff and had him halfway over the ship 's side and would have dumped him into the dock had he not been restrained by a couple of his workmates . |
| 5 | Naturally he wanted a top man to carry his bag , a man who knew St Andrews like the back of his hand — someone young and capable of clubbing him perfectly over the home of golf 's fickle links , no matter what the weather . |
| 6 | He seized him by the waist and threw him bodily over the balustrade . |
| 7 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 8 | ‘ His business takes him all over the world . ’ |
| 9 | Flashback F M rewinds to December nineteen eighty three , from three meet former radio four Today presenter John Timpson with another of his wacky books which takes him all over the country looking at the unusual including some of the things you never knew existed in North Yorkshire . |
| 10 | He is conscious of Marjorie 's watery blue eyes scanning him speculatively over the rim of her teacup , inviting further discussion of Sandra , but he ca n't face it , not this morning , not with a day 's work ahead of him . |
| 11 | But he doubted if he could have stood her voice for a full evening ; it grated on him when she chatted him up over the counter . |
| 12 | In her panic , and to make sure he stayed unconscious , she hit him twice over the head with the base of the standard lamp . |
| 13 | A good-length ball was deposited over long-on into the George Headley Stand and in van Zyl 's next over , Simmons flat-batted him straight for four , smashed him imperiously over the extra-cover boundary for six and then drove another four through extra cover . |
| 14 | He wanted to hit him all over the face with his fists , to smash away his stupid smile , to stop him talking . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd have heard him all over the shop , ’ he said , ‘ and he came off the phone complaining that he 'd just lost 40,000 . |
| 16 | She rode him out over the last furlong and finished some six lengths behind Shine On . |
| 17 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |
| 18 | His weakness for girls from an escort agency run by an old friend of Jack 's had cost him dear over the years . |
| 19 | Ian , 27 , broke his wrist when his Honda CBR 600 spat him off over the high-side during a race . |
| 20 | I said I 'd been chasing him all over the world . |
| 21 | While the bull 's head was low , the bull-leaper might dive between the horns to land , head and hands first , on the bull 's back : momentum carried him on over the bull 's tail , to land on his feet behind the bull . |
| 22 | ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States . |
| 23 | Shiona eyed him challengingly over the bonnet of the car . |
| 24 | He looked up into her wide blue eyes which were scrutinising him intently over the mug of tea which she was holding with two hands . |