Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulls the top part of the metal cover further up , and the lower half sinks at the same time ; he reaches in and gathers an armful of logs , bringing them over to the hearth . |
| 2 | After that , it took the agents four days to extract a confession from their prisoner on the USS Butte before turning him over to the US Navy for the 13 hour 10 minute flight to Washington , a new solo record for a carrier-based aircraft carrying a second-hand car dealer . |
| 3 | All the Official Custodian was doing was receiving the income and paying it over to the charities . |
| 4 | But I was awoken from my daydreaming by her calling me over to the large chest which stood beneath the window . |
| 5 | No wonder they 're sending him over to the mad house for th ’ electric . ’ |
| 6 | Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring . |
| 7 | Many schools were established by communities on a self-help basis , with the intention of handing them over to the government . |
| 8 | A new Bill was presented , on similar lines , but instead of handing everything over to the L.C.C . |
| 9 | Some of the near contemporary songs which have survived from the period describe Rodrigo himself as capturing Garcia and handing him over to the brothers . |
| 10 | I managed to scrounge some tobacco at Brigade H.Q and was soon handing it over to the Frenchman . |
| 11 | To give themselves ready cash , some American airlines want to keep a 10% ticket tax for up to a year before handing it over to the government . |
| 12 | The Germans , defeated , suffering every form of deprivation , were not and could hardly be expected to be enthusiastic about dismantling the only source of their livelihood and handing it over to the hated Russians . |
| 13 | And when we remember what Eliot did with the gibe , taking it over in the title of Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats , that collection of whimsical fireside charades in verse , we may well think again about Auden 's comment that in English family life ‘ it is becoming to entertain each other with witty remarks , hoaxes , family games and jokes ’ . |
| 14 | And you say , today we 're , tonight we 're talking you over to the hub and we 're going to show you all this , and I take them and get over there about ten o'clock , and we go along there to , to look at the , the slats and the trays and there are all these masters flying around being terribly excited about this , terrific noises , and they say , God this is great , but how many parcels will go through tonight ? |
| 15 | For a brief moment later , he had picked her bodily up in his arms , and , as if she weighed less than nothing , was carrying her over to the bed . |
| 16 | She drew the pan of milk off the fire and carrying it over to the table , quickly poured it into a pint pot into which she had already spooned a generous measure of treacle . |
| 17 | There was considerable leeway in deciding which services should be subsidized and the ‘ right ’ allocation would be determined by ‘ talking it over between the railway managers and the official ’ ( Joy 1973 : 127–31 ) . |
| 18 | stopping this slaughtering shipping them over to the France or anything any more he 's burnt their |
| 19 | Much credit is due to the quick thinking of his jockey John Buckingham riding in his first Grand National , in steering him over to the wide outside and popping him through a gap . |