Example sentences of "[subord] he had [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed to hide his hysteria until he had handed over my mail . |
| 2 | The traveller then saw that he was sitting right on the edge of a cliff , and if he had leaned over to get the log he would have fallen to his death . |
| 3 | On Christmas day they stopped sending aid to the country , because he had taken over its government yet again . |
| 4 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 5 | He first noticed a young boy early one summer , about a year or so after he had taken over Entwhistle Halt . |
| 6 | It had been knocked from its cradle when he had gone over with the first shot . |
| 7 | She had blushed a fiery red as he had walked over , dressed in his race gear , to talk to her brother . |
| 8 | He has become an expendable symbol of the 21 years lost by Czechoslovaks since the invasion of August 1968 , for he had taken over , apparently without compunction , from Mr Alexander Dubcek as Communist Party leader when the latter was humiliated at the beginning of 1969 . |