Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 3 | I propose to think over the situation of the Government generally during the week-end and I have not yet made any definite decisions as to possible changes of Ministers . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to ride over the next big bore at Stonebench . ’ |
| 5 | Chairman , the last speech was really explaining what I want to get over the fact that so many people want to talk on the issue and to complicate the issue . |
| 6 | The problem , as I began to discover over the years , does n't lie with the composer , it lies with the interpreters and what is expected from the interpreters by people who have dubious taste . |
| 7 | I had to strain over the table to pick up the words . |
| 8 | ‘ The roof has leaked for a year , ’ John said , ‘ and I had to cover over the electrics to protect them from the rain . |
| 9 | Because when I went up I had to climb over the steel plate . |
| 10 | Well I had to climb over the wall and fucking jump there . |
| 11 | Okay , have a go at it and we 'll come round and correct what you 're doing as you 're doing it , alright , so you want to pad over the wound to keep infection out and then try to get your bandage on top of that to keep the dressing in place . |
| 12 | She tried to gloss over the humiliation of it . |
| 13 | She tried to walk over the rich green grass towards them , but her feet seemed glued in place . |
| 14 | She seemed to skate over the next part of her story , but Julia grasped the salient part , which was that one of the English officers who fought with the Italians had fallen in love with her , promised to marry her and secretly made love to her . |
| 15 | On the way home from school that afternoon she began to mull over the various possibilities , and when at last the germ of a brilliant idea hit her , she began to expand on it and lay her plans with the same kind of care the Duke of Wellington had done before the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 16 | You decide to leap over the convent wall and hightail it to England to a new life , and you have the wit to do it on early closing day . ’ |
| 17 | She was lowering herself from the tip-toe that she needed to look over the panelled backing of the window display when something else caught her eye , further down the road . |
| 18 | When a bather wanted more hot water , he or she had to shout over the noise of filling baths and protesting bathers and the Duchesse singing , and depending on how this eccen-tric woman felt , she would either top up the water from a source outside the cubicles or tell the bather his time was up . |
| 19 | ‘ In the meantime you are free to do whatever you wish to do over the next few weeks . |
| 20 | How many re-fitted stores have you got now then how many are you planning to re-fit over the next year ? |
| 21 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 22 | The pound has been very strong recently , particularly in the United States , where they 've got a weak dollar , and we have to put over the message that there are tremendous deals to be had erm both in air fares and when you get here in terms of hotel rates erm and in terms of prices of food and so forth . |
| 23 | They lied at least four times last week as they tried to gloss over the seriousness of a plutonium spillage at the heart of their reprocessing operation . |
| 24 | They tried to leap over the sandbags , but were too slow . |
| 25 | They started to disagree over the clothes Ace insisted on buying her until she was almost overcome with embarrassment . |
| 26 | But at weekends , they attempt to rendezvous over the Oxford marmalade , and on this occasion had succeeded . |
| 27 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 28 | In the end they had to go over the Bishop 's head , obtaining the authorization they wanted from the Pope . |
| 29 | Taff was with the 3″ mortar team as they continued to send over the occasional mortar bomb , their target a crossroads at the other end of the village . |
| 30 | O&Y 's liquidity crisis meant it could not repay the holders when they refused to roll over the commercial paper . |