Example sentences of "[prep] him over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bursting from the trees ahead of him , three black shapes came hurtling towards him over the pine needle floor of the clearing . |
| 2 | It crept stealthily towards him over the mud , advancing , retreating , advancing again like a living creature stalking its prey . |
| 3 | It stands on the site of Wedgwood 's first factory , and has a statue of him over the porch , as well as a series of elaborate reliefs and friezes . |
| 4 | In deference to the apparent madness of King George III he agreed to the Lord Chamberlain 's proposal , as play censor , to omit Shakespeare 's King Lear from the repertory which told of a monarch similarly afflicted ; but clashed with him over The School for Scandal , the objections to which , however , he managed to resolve , bringing him a period of near prosperity . |
| 5 | She lived there with him over the shop , did n't she ? |
| 6 | When the restorer was driven out of Bohemia in 1945 , he managed — and this was truly a miracle — to take the picture with him over the frontier into Bavaria . |
| 7 | The governors had placed great trust in him over the period of ten years ‘ during one of which it pleased its liberal Grand Visitor to take me with him to Ireland ’ . |
| 8 | And er , see , my father , when they used to start the rounds , they used to start , go down the Fen on a Tuesday , er the man what worked for him over the road George worked for him there , a chap named George and my father used to go round Wicken , that 's three miles away from here . |
| 9 | Armed with FARMERS WEEKLY information ( read out to him over the telephone ) I was able instantly to negotiate a return to quarterly charging with my branch manager and a reduction of ½%; in the cost of my borrowing over base rate . |
| 10 | ‘ Thank you ! ’ she called out to him over the hubbub . |
| 11 | But Leopold soon found another source of grievance — the fact that Wolfgang had lied to him over the money he had earned . |
| 12 | But the Mirror article , read to him over the phone while he was in Korea , was a personal attack . |
| 13 | The boss sounded agitated when I spoke to him over the phone . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Carter , who is business development manager at ICI Billingham , says he knew the instant it was described to him over the phone that the property was just what they were looking for . |
| 15 | It 's a rare person who can ignore a letter sent personally to him over the signature of Clint Eastwood or Charlton Heston , saying ‘ I need your help ’ . |
| 16 | The children stood on the top step and spoke to him over the half-door . |
| 17 | It seemed to Joe that his mother was waiting behind the hall door for him , because no sooner had he entered the house than there she was , staring at him over the distance . |
| 18 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 19 | She narrowed her eyes at him over the coffee-table . |
| 20 | There was a pause , than a woman 's reddened , raddled face squinted at him over the sill . |
| 21 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 22 | His father shouted at him over the noise of the engine , ‘ I want you to see , Alexei . |
| 23 | Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed . |
| 24 | Ma peered at him over the top of the evening paper , Her eyes were shifty with guilt . |
| 25 | She looked at him over the top of her glass . |
| 26 | She looked at him over the top of her cup . |
| 27 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 28 | I looked at him over the roof . |
| 29 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 30 | She smiled at him over the table napkin , which was removing a minute trace of profiterole . |