Example sentences of "[vb past] go over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A couple of blokes tried to go over the wall about a year ago . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 3 | They caught me at it , luckily , before I 'd gone over the edge . |
| 4 | ‘ Bet she wishes it was the dashing Dieter who 'd gone over the cliff ! ’ she said cheerfully . |
| 5 | The reason he 'd gone over the wall was simple . |
| 6 | He 'd gone over the car with a cloth , wiping fingerprints from the steering wheel and the door handles , then he 'd tossed that into the Lancia . |
| 7 | The High Court in Glasgow heard that as the car started to go over the top of the steps , one of the youths pushing it shouted : ‘ There 's somebody down there . ’ |
| 8 | The latest proposals coincided with yet another summer of delays as tourist traffic queued to go over the sea to Skye . |
| 9 | And , people from the town centre who were going home to Stoke had to go over the bridge . |
| 10 | In the end they had to go over the Bishop 's head , obtaining the authorization they wanted from the Pope . |
| 11 | some of us had gone over the border you know . |
| 12 | The last they heard was that he had gone over the wall for two years . |
| 13 | But although we found little , report had magnified our findings in no ordinary degree and we afterwards learnt that it had gone over the country around that we had dug up a great treasure of gold . |
| 14 | I know cos we were breaking bits off it cos it had gone over the edge . |
| 15 | I had called round at the house early in the week to check on how things had gone over the weekend . |
| 16 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 17 | So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself . |
| 18 | Thus rather than adopting the language of coercion and hence drawing parallels between corporate officials and , say , soldiers at the front in World War I compelled to go over the top at dawn to meet the German machine-gun bullets or be shot as ‘ deserters ’ , it might be more realistic to argue that corporate officials are frequently placed in a position where they are required to choose between impairing their career chances or being a loyal organizational person . |