Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His engineer would not take over as he had had a full day 's terror , so I volunteered to take over engine control in his place . |
| 2 | I was putting them round the back and sat thinking about it and I said well we ai n't got no peat , so we had to rush over to Hetford and bought some very good peat , and erm , by the time I got back and started digging hole for them to go in |
| 3 | The companies vied with each other to find new settings for the basic story-lines and messages that they had to put over . |
| 4 | Suddenly , one of the organisers called my number , I had to take off my socks and shoes as you had to do the jump in bare feet and I had to go over to get weighed again on different scales to make sure I was using the correct cord ( they were very safety conscious about every aspect of the jump ) . |
| 5 | I had much on my mind , and I wanted to ponder over my problems , real or imaginary . |
| 6 | Folly cast her eye down the column of names , but it ran off the bottom of the page and she had to turn over . |
| 7 | And erm Claire spoke to him first of all , and we decided to pull over and talk to this chap cos he was going on and on , and I said to her |
| 8 | If we had to play over a m7♭5 chord , I would use a Locrian scale . |
| 9 | ‘ I played for their club when I was touring in Germany , and they volunteered to come over and help us whenever they could . |
| 10 | ‘ The contractors had done a lot of the work , but we had to go over some of it again , including painting the wooden treads on the stairs just to make sure it was right , ’ he explained . |
| 11 | He said Washington decided against helping the rebels because they refused to hand over General Noriega and because the US doubted their democratic good faith . |
| 12 | He had been through it before and had already told the Captain he was sure that was the car , though he had n't looked at the driver and front passenger , having been distracted by the map and by watching the traffic coming from all three directions because he wanted to cross over . |
| 13 | They were all staying in this Florida hotel … where postman Keith Thompson was shot dead after he refused to hand over his money to muggers . |
| 14 | The House of Commons Employment Committee proposes the establishment of a ‘ decade of retirement ’ between the age of 60 and 70 , which would allow people to choose for themselves when they wished to retire over this period of time . |