Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times . |
| 2 | They helped me over the next road , me nearly tripping as I crossed the far kerb . |
| 3 | After starting the day a stroke behind Stewart , the USPGA champion , Langer overhauled him over the seventh , eighth and ninth holes . |
| 4 | He moved closer , delving in the pocket of his dinner jacket to lift out a carton of cigarettes and light one , his pale eyes gleaming as he studied her over the glowing tip . |
| 5 | But Faldo has reserved his most barbed comments for Alliss and the press , even though the publicity afforded him over the last 16 years has brought a £2 million home and bulging bank account worth more than £10m . |
| 6 | He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip . |
| 7 | In the twenty seventh minute , Abingdon scored their second when Darren Hickey played an excellent ball through to Aries and Aries lobbed it over the advancing keeper into the back of the net with Kevin Connelly following up to make certain . |
| 8 | When the Mirror confronted him over the damning documents , he said : ‘ Somebody could easily falsify records . ’ |
| 9 | He showed her over the nearby castle , took her for long drives , and on the last day of his — as he called it — ‘ snatched holiday ’ , seemingly relaxed and happy to be playing truant from the demands of his busy life , he drove to Bettystown . |
| 10 | He raised it , threw it over the small postbox gate . |
| 11 | David 's long fingers plucked carefully at two of the lines , swung them over the outlying strings and took the whole pattern back from her hands to form a new one within his . |
| 12 | In 1223 Richard was once again in the retinue of William Marshal and followed him over the next few years into Wales , Ireland , and Brittany . |
| 13 | When at last I came to the start of the mad little road to Lochinver , I followed it over the bleak moorland , Stac Polly now appearing as a black spire in a halo of sunlight . |
| 14 | The pimp took the strip and placed it over the other girl 's mouth . |
| 15 | But one evening after a day 's shooting on Sergeant Ryker in 1963 , Marvin was continually baited by a drunk until Marvin grabbed a banjo from somewhere and smashed it over the other man 's head , drawing blood and knocking out his teeth . |
| 16 | At the Din as Reserve we followed the nature trail ; a board walk steered us over the bossy bits . |
| 17 | He remembered how Izzy Kleiber had fought and kicked right to the end — until the moment when they lifted him up , then lowered him over the outer wall of the harbour , where the greedy river licked its oily lips and waited , invisible in the darkness below … . |
| 18 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 19 | MADRID — A distraught blind man , Manuel Eulogio Suarez , cornered his three tiny children in their flat in Vigo , north-west Spain and tossed them over the sixth-floor balcony , apparently after a row with his estranged wife . |
| 20 | Tony , on the Leicester right , started it five yards from his own line with a brilliant burst which took him over the half-way line . |
| 21 | Take the weaving yarn and lay it over the alternate needles but wrap it two or three times round the blocks of three selected needles . |
| 22 | From Alta , which is a small fishing village , our chosen route took us over the high plateau towards Varanger Fiord . |
| 23 | And it was hundred and ten if you did it over the two six |
| 24 | As quick as a flash , Mildred pulled out a lasso of rope which she had hidden in a drawer and slipped it over the astonished girl 's head and shoulders , yanking it tightly enough to bind her arms to her sides . |
| 25 | He fetched water and splashed it over the twitching boy . |
| 26 | We walked the long , covered-in wooden bridge which led us over the Hundred Foot River to the members ' observatory . |
| 27 | His back was smooth and firm , hot under her palms , and the muscles rippled as she slid her hands down and smoothed them over the slight swell of his hips . |
| 28 | Although Liz 's body is disposing of alcohol at the rate of about one unit a hour , her last drink pushed her over the legal limit for driving of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood . |
| 29 | She put out a finger and tentatively slid it over the thin plastic through which the knickers , crumpled and stained round the crotch , were clearly visible . |