Example sentences of "[vb past] it over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dinah queened it over the teapot , smiling bravery , Nathan Holland at her elbow . |
| 2 | ‘ What I regret is that we did n't force the bank into this situation 15 months ago when we first approached it over the demerger . |
| 3 | He pushed her back into the room and , seizing the case , opened it and upended it over the bed . |
| 4 | Taking off her jacket , she dropped it over the back of a chair and picked distastefully at the damp folds of her burgundy skirt . |
| 5 | So it would start the timing mechanism running at the moment it dropped it over the side . |
| 6 | Yes and I thought it was mucking it up so I just swapped it over the way it was . |
| 7 | Er Webb , Webb missed the first one blasted it over the top and Giggs missed one at the end . |
| 8 | And he booked it over the phone , said Is it a standard flat ? which was a silly thing to ask cos to everybody who lives in a house , they 've a standard amount of furniture . |
| 9 | She lifted it over the fence and set off across the little meadow , gathering speed and thoroughly enjoying it . |
| 10 | ‘ These people got abusive because we would n't take their drugs so I just grabbed this bag of s*** and poured it over the floor . |
| 11 | Mrs Taylor gave Frankie and me a piece of bread pudding each but we did n't like the smell of it so we threw it over the wall on the way back to our house . |
| 12 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |
| 13 | Alida hauled up the eiderdown from the floor , threw it over the width of the bed , And I , she thought bitterly , I am not young , not a girl , to bend and stoop and struggle with making and tidying this great bed . |
| 14 | Theodore Lawton ejected the cartridge , took another one , and fired it over the side . |
| 15 | In the heat of the kitchen she had removed her costume jacket and hung it over the back of a nearby chair . |
| 16 | There was a rustle beside her as Gladys removed a shapeless cardigan and hung it over the back of the adjoining chair . |
| 17 | She removed her jacket and hung it over the hook on the kitchen door , and did the same with her hat , then warily walked into the living-room . |
| 18 | By ten-thirty , Beth had cleared away the breakfast things , washed the dishes and stacked them into the big dresser , wiped down the kitchen table , taken the coconut matting from the floor and hung it over the line outside where she beat every speck of dust from it before replacing it over her freshly scrubbed quarry tiles ; all that done she was now enjoying a cup of tea , before setting about the drawing room . |
| 19 | Well well I do , I heard it over the weekend in fact , that I can er , have er , another BUPA medical to start with . |
| 20 | ‘ Alex Household must have said it just before he shot the gun ; Micky heard it over the deaf-aid and just repeated it . ’ |
| 21 | I heard it over the radio . ’ |
| 22 | Raised from Lock Oich in the Scottish Highlands in July , the Hurricane crashed there on August 31 , 1941 after an engine fire disabled it over the Highlands . |
| 23 | Lee took hold of the bike and pulled it over the fence . |
| 24 | When the crew proposed to surrender , Ferrar persuaded them to fight , ‘ firing the most phlegmatic by recounting how our ancestors lorded it over the sea and were renowned over all the world for their naval victories ’ : they were saved by the arrival on the scene of another vessel . |
| 25 | that was cos of the fat , the fat so as they just lay it over the top and put the potatoes and onions |
| 26 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 27 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 28 | Striking northwards up the coast from near Khafji , accompanied also by some Qatari armour , they took it over the period 26–27 February . |
| 29 | Finally he wandered through into the kitchen , pulled off his jacket and draped it over the back of a chair . |
| 30 | He switched out the light , but the darkness made his skin crawl so he switched it back on , then took Sophie 's sweater from the floor and draped it over the lampshade . |