Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray got over the difficulty by appointing a triumvirate in command : Steward , Constable and Sir Archibald , with the Flower of Chivalry as specific military adviser . |
| 2 | Covering the sprawled guards constantly , Mortimer hopped over the bodies and continued downwards , his men jabbing the bodies with bayonets to make sure . |
| 3 | Has your view of Harlow changed over the years ? |
| 4 | Then Holmes bent over the body and began to move it . |
| 5 | Ma bent over the stove . |
| 6 | As the result of lengthy investigations into the Duzme Mustafa revolt , Mehmed Sah was implicated in that affair ; and , Husameddin relates , " Molla Fenari grieved greatly that at the end of the investigations , in the year 832 , Mehmed Sah Efendi passed over the bridge of death together with Candarlizade Ibrahim Pasa and the Grand Vezir Haci Ivaz Pasa . " |
| 7 | The salesman and Hank , however , seemed to have reached some agreement and strolled towards the office , where fat old Josh presided over the financing section with the careful rapacity of a born moneylender . |
| 8 | During their stay the Juan Carlos and Salinas presided over the signature of a five-year treaty of friendship and co-operation in the context of which Spain was to provide aid to Mexico of 4,400 million pesetas ( about US$40,000,000 at current exchange rates ) over five years in the form of credits and investment in the private sector . |
| 9 | As acting President Frederick Gilby presided over the BDDA 's first post-war Congress , held in Glasgow in 1920 , where Ernest Ayliffe was elected as the next President of the Association . |
| 10 | Frankie peered over the top of his comic , unable to resist the temptation to join in . |
| 11 | Mairi was still shrieking and striking at Luch while Master Beaton bent over the bed . |
| 12 | Hawkins bent over the slave and examined the padlock . |
| 13 | Waving his arms to attract their attention , Rocky bellowed over the noise of the roaring flames , crying youngsters and throbbing water pumps . |
| 14 | Tilda clambered over the washboard , and clinging on by fingers and toes to the strakes , half slithered and half climbed down the side , gathered up the cat and skimmed across to Rochester . |
| 15 | For example , when Detroit triumphed over the San Diego Padres in the 1984 World Seriff , |
| 16 | A large , badly painted portrait of Mayor Donlevy hung over the desk . |
| 17 | Manville glanced over the driver 's shoulder , reading the meter . |
| 18 | I did not know how Dickie heard over the noise of the running taps , but at her ‘ He 's got it ! |
| 19 | Hari looked over the woman 's shoulder and the first thing she saw was the leather boots standing on the table . |
| 20 | Naturally , being worried , Toby chewed over the subject on Thursday before school with Penny Warlock . |
| 21 | Dudek flicked over the pages , found them to be a little better , but still somewhat hum-drum . |
| 22 | Grimma leaned over the plank . |
| 23 | On June 5 a spokesman for the NPFL denied over the rebel radio station at Gbarnga that the Front was holding any ECOMOG troops . |
| 24 | In between a shot from Ken Monkou whistled over the bar from ten yards when an equaliser looked to be a certainty . |
| 25 | Hauling himself higher up the brass serpent , Yeremi squinted over the helmets of Fists as three Land Raiders roared out across a ramp from the adjacent larger hold , on to a fossilised sea of undulating ebon lava . |
| 26 | " Later that evening , as El-ahrairah was urging his rabbits to growl more fiercely and run up and down in the marshes of Kelfazin , Prince Rainbow came over the river . |
| 27 | I 've been , I 've came over the handlebars , Ian came over the handlebars with the bikes , so it is rough terrain |
| 28 | Sylvia watched , mesmerised , as Estelle peed over the man 's face and into his open mouth . |
| 29 | In place of the major role which workers were demanding in running the factories , Lenin presided over the centralization of economic power and the establishment of managerial structures divorced from the rank and file . |
| 30 | Horatia trembled over the name . |