Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [pers pn] [vb past] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the lobby revolt , ‘ No one could have been in any doubt that if they went over to [ the rebel papers ' ] side , they would cook their goose with Number Ten . ’ |
| 2 | She had the sensation that if she looked over her shoulder she would find Rohan Saint Yves watching her from the shadows … |
| 3 | Her body-was so slim and fragile one got the feeling that if she fell over she would smash into a thousand pieces , like a porcelain figure . |
| 4 | Castro later admitted to Herbert Matthews that when he took over the refineries he did not know whether or not Moscow would supply Cuba with oil ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |
| 5 | I pointed to the fact that I was younger than when he took over . |
| 6 | And although women were n't provided — it was n't a brothel or anything — you could bring them in if they were good fun , and if they stayed over , a blind eye was turned . |
| 7 | N not as it is today , beautiful green grass and we used to play er cricket , football , marbles er pitch card , ring tor , er duckie stone , and all that of course the village in those days was divided into two parts and if you lived over 's Hill you was a downtowner . |
| 8 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 9 | And when I went over to standard two , Miss was the name of the teacher with the the middle classes . |
| 10 | And when I took over the magazine I said let's just use the typefaces that they use in the newspaper and supplement them for some headlines , but try to make it belong in the New York Times . |
| 11 | He loved his ‘ Jocks ’ without a trace of condescension , and when he took over the regiment as lieutenant-colonel in North Africa and Italy , his double-barrelled beer name earned him the affectionate sobriquet of ‘ Colonel Screwtop ’ . |
| 12 | Under Sole 's command Scotland won 14 times , and when he took over from Finlay Calder as captain in 1989 he continued a sequence that was to lead to another record : 13 successive victories at Murrayfield . |
| 13 | ‘ This is quite delicious , ’ she remarked to her host , and when he looked over at her quite affably , with no sign of the fury that had enveloped him at lunchtime , she felt that she could , and should , bring the matter into the open . |
| 14 | and when she went over she says er school being off , she heard er David saying something about well nobody 's keeping me from my ironing . |
| 15 | Much later , it seemed , she awoke and when she turned over and looked towards where the chanting had come from the African men and women had eaten and were packing away and decamping . |
| 16 | We took that hill at a cracking pace , and as we handed over at the crest , and dropped back to the end of the column , Fr Courtney called out ‘ Well done I ’ to us . |
| 17 | The young copper rushed bull-like at Sam , swung a terrific right which landed above the head , just displacing a lot of air ; lost his balance , fell to the ground — and as he rolled over quickly to make a scramble to his feet , Sam pounced with his booted feet . |
| 18 | But once she took over the directorship of the Institute for Chemical Research in Bucharest ( ICECHIM ) , she began to purge those scientists who had been foolish enough to cast doubt on her credentials or to refuse to ‘ co-operate ’ with her research . |
| 19 | But when they took over the firm they were always called " Mister " to distinguish them from the other captains , perhaps . |
| 20 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 21 | But when I looked over those I had kept , I decided I could not do so . |
| 22 | Well , go on , do n't stop there , I 'm sure the rest is just as fascinating — presumably that , yes , you knew Ryan , but when you flew over to find out why the hell he could n't get something so simple as planning permission you decided to do something about it yourself , and there was gullible little Hilary , all ready and waiting to fall into your arms . |
| 23 | But when he looked over his shoulder , expecting Eve to be doing much the same , she was heading in quite a different direction . |
| 24 | Because when we took over this room it had actually two extra floors in , one where you see the joists and one higher up . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ It was a struggle at first , because when we took over , we discovered that most of the team had left , so we had to find players quickly . |