Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice . |
| 2 | Having a bit of a rest in the winter , I was able to relax a little bit more , so I think I came over a lot fresher than I normally do for the start of the season . |
| 3 | I handed over a coin : that meant I 'd only got two left , but it was the fattest and quickest-gobbled 10p I 've ever spent . |
| 4 | I handed over a plethora of retirement gifts from her colleagues and wished her a long and happy retirement . |
| 5 | I handed over a Ford transit van and its human contents to the Sussex constabulary . |
| 6 | Superintendent Mercer arrived shortly afterwards and I handed over the key of the Biology Lab to him . " |
| 7 | Reluctantly I handed over the axe and made way for him , then stood , stretching my back . |
| 8 | With a trembling hand I turned over the paper which was face down . |
| 9 | I turned over the ashes , found the glow within the crust , added some kindling and a log , then stood to stretch with my hands in the small of my back because it was aching . |
| 10 | I knocked over a candle . ’ |
| 11 | I spent over an hour checking out all those that were for sale but the only one I kept coming back to had displayed in blue on gold down its sides , ‘ The biggest barrow in the world ’ . |
| 12 | I stumbled over a couple of boxes on the floor . |
| 13 | Giddy , weak , no longer interested in the inedible , and with even my fear of meeting again with the Mamba overridden by ravenous hunger , I stumbled over a heap of damaged hassocks towards a door marked in red letters , FIRE DOOR — KEEP CLOSED . |
| 14 | In the rush to get to the tail of the pool , I stumbled over a rock , and in putting out a hand to save a bad fall , dropped the rod and line into the water . |
| 15 | It took several layers of slightly thinned fold acrylic paint to get the effect I wanted , then , as the final touch , I worked over the parts I have previously painted red , now visible only as a dull tonal value within the fold , using well thinned films of the different pearlescent colours . |
| 16 | Naturally I talked over every aspect of it with Elizabeth and the family ; and in the end I concluded that if- and only if-convincing evidence was brought to me that a substantial majority in both Houses wished me to take on the job I would do so . |
| 17 | Here as in the Colca I looked over a valley where utility and design had given the landscape rhythm — row upon row of perfect terraces , smoothed and buttressed , rising to the highest , green handkerchief . |
| 18 | I tripped over a root , half lost my balance , shoved the new factors into oblivion . |
| 19 | I used to love riding , but I went over a jump seven years ago and the horse stopped , but I kept on going , and I fractured my back , so I thought , I 'm too old for that . |
| 20 | ‘ I took over a part in A Midsummer Night 's Dream . ’ |
| 21 | I told you in another part of this saga of mine that I took over a Night in No 7 Squadron from a Flight Commander . |
| 22 | I got myself a couple of sausages on sticks , a hunk of crusty bread , and another Scotch , and I took over a pint of bitter for Seddon . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Opinions about timetabling motions have altered massively since I took over the chairmanship of the Select Committee on Procedure nearly nine years ago . |
| 25 | The latest and most thorough had been completed just before I took over the chairman-ship . |
| 26 | Well I took over the beginning of the year did n't I ? |
| 27 | I took over the chair previously occupied by Angus Maude , who since 1979 had carried out the impossible job of overseeing Government information . |
| 28 | I took over the family . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I took over the poling . |