Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv prt] over the " 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 have to admit we let him down over the gearbox which was slipping out of sixth gear and we have apologised for that . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She rode him out over the last furlong and finished some six lengths behind Shine On . |
| 6 | Ian , 27 , broke his wrist when his Honda CBR 600 spat him off over the high-side during a race . |
| 7 | 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 . |