Example sentences of "[conj] he had [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shocked driver assumed that he had run over and killed someone on the line , but on investigation there was no injured person to be found . |
| 2 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 3 | External Affairs Minister Madhavsinh Solanki resigned on March 31 after admitting that he had handed over a note to his Swiss counterpart , René Felber , requesting the Swiss government to slow down its investigations into pay-offs to high-ranking Indian officials allegedly deposited into Swiss bank accounts by the Swedish armaments company AB Bofors [ see pp. 35336 ; 35382 ] . |
| 4 | This Mr Kravchuk did late on Monday night , announcing that he had taken over all forces in Ukraine apart from strategic nuclear missiles , and with a reported order from Ukrainian air force command banning all flights by the fleet 's planes . |
| 5 | That he had taken over Joe the Fish 's businesses and made a name for himself among the villains . |
| 6 | Although he had made it a condition of his NBC appearance that his whereabouts not be disclosed , Neal Miller called next day to say that he had taken over as his handler and to reprimand him for doing the broadcast without permission . |
| 7 | He managed to hide his hysteria until he had handed over my mail . |
| 8 | The traveller then saw that he was sitting right on the edge of a cliff , and if he had leaned over to get the log he would have fallen to his death . |
| 9 | On Christmas day they stopped sending aid to the country , because he had taken over its government yet again . |
| 10 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 11 | He first noticed a young boy early one summer , about a year or so after he had taken over Entwhistle Halt . |
| 12 | It had been knocked from its cradle when he had gone over with the first shot . |
| 13 | She had blushed a fiery red as he had walked over , dressed in his race gear , to talk to her brother . |
| 14 | He has become an expendable symbol of the 21 years lost by Czechoslovaks since the invasion of August 1968 , for he had taken over , apparently without compunction , from Mr Alexander Dubcek as Communist Party leader when the latter was humiliated at the beginning of 1969 . |