Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Ministers are told any gifts worth more than £125 must be refused or handed over to the department . |
2 | A strangely-deserted sidewalk , Rex noted as he leapt out of the cab and stalked over to the fallen driver . |
3 | On seeking to patent his process , Castner discovered that a similar patent had been lodged in Germany by Karl Kellner and made over to the powerful Solvay Company in Belgium . |
4 | He broke off , almost grinding his teeth , and flung over to the window to stare out . |
5 | While it was charming I was not at all happy there so I gave up the grandiose life and moved over to the Peel Street YMCA . |
6 | Tight-lipped , Delaney nodded , and moved over to the radio desk . |
7 | He got up , casting her a smile that said women were never pleased , and moved over to the fridge , his back to her . |
8 | Curtis commented wryly and moved over to the bedside again . |
9 | My mum , as mums tend to do , had divined my state of mind rather shrewdly and moved over to the bed in a thoughtful kind of way . |
10 | On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee . |
11 | He left the vehicle and moved over to the rocks . |
12 | Willie rose and wandered over towards the entrance . |
13 | I bought myself some fruit and wandered over to the first tee where Brian Harley was about to drive off . |
14 | Blanche sighed , stood up and wandered over to the window . |
15 | Andrew put the leather helmet down and wandered over to the window . |
16 | He came back through then and she averted her eyes from the fire , and his face , and wandered over to the window , to sober herself by staring once again at the pouring rain . |
17 | The solid trapdoor lifted and crashed over onto the tiled floor , and his heart soared as the torch light revealed the wooden rungs of a ladder descending into the darkness below . |
18 | Mavis laid her knitting aside and came over to the bed , where , to my redoubled annoyance , she sat down and took my hands . |
19 | Today she closed the door quietly behind her , and tiptoed over to the polished wooden closet , as she always did , to look at her mother 's dresses . |
20 | The class struggle between bourgeoisie and proletariat became ever more intense ; mounting economic crises followed in rapid succession and spilled over into the catastrophe of world war . |
21 | He stood and strolled over to the box . |
22 | Then I switched off the music centre and strolled over to the window to take a last look at the night outside . |
23 | I stretched up and strolled over to the Transit . |
24 | Henry got out of the car and sauntered over to the Sierra . |
25 | Slipping it under a broad embroidered bracelet , she left her room and sauntered over to the business school . |
26 | If only such projects could be taken off the government 's books and handed over to the private sector , to get on with them . |
27 | We applied to hire it but were told it was not available until refurbished and handed over to the community association . |
28 | In August 1536 he was condemned as a heretic , publicly stripped of the vestments of priesthood , and handed over to the secular authorities . |
29 | Yet , on a formation basis , all these groups , including the Germans , were to be " treated as Soviet Nationals " and handed over to the Soviet authorities . |
30 | At the Restoration Potter was seized by a Roger Howcott and handed over to the authorities . |