Example sentences of "have [verb] [conj] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , Mr Roberts added : ‘ Employing only strictly contemporary documents and some extraordinarily painstaking historical scholarship , Charmley has disinterred and raked over every stratum of the Churchill myth . ’ |
| 2 | We 'll just have to try and go over as |
| 3 | For a bet , he had once broken into the flat where a certain Vice-Questore was entertaining a lady friend and removed the couple 's clothes so stealthily that the Vice-Questore thought something supernatural must have occurred and came over all religious for a while . |
| 4 | The electrodes that had been implanted in its brain had been removed ; the scars from the surgery had healed and grown over with fur . |
| 5 | Colour came back into his weathered cheeks ; the volcano of prophecy that was known to burn in him had cooled and crusted over . |
| 6 | He was on the rocky slope he knew already from more than one climb , and somewhere here on these smoother protected faces of rock were the plans he had scratched and pondered over so many months ago . |
| 7 | In the late 330s , after Alexander had entered and taken over Egypt , his officer Peukestas son of Makartatos put up what is the earliest Greek documentary papyrus from Egypt . |
| 8 | The contract was awarded in September 1990 and within six weeks CCG had mobilised and handed over a number of buildings to support the construction team on the ‘ Core Site ’ . |
| 9 | The barracks should have been torn down years ago , but the fort 's current proprietors , the Archaeological Survey of India , have lovingly continued the work of decay initiated by the British : white marble pavilions have been allowed to discolour ; plasterwork has been left to collapse ; the water channels have cracked and grassed over ; the fountains are dry . |
| 10 | and you have to try and cover over , you ca n't say , god you 're vile are n't you ? , but erm , |
| 11 | To what extent do we have to re-evaluate everything we have seen and photographed over nearly two decades of involvement with China ? |
| 12 | What we have here is a range of differences and similarities concerning a concept , and putative phenomena connected with it , that both scholars , and many more since , have argued and disputed over . |
| 13 | Critics have drooled and dribbled over her out-of-this-world beauty and wide , spacey blue eyes , but now Kim Basinger is confounding them all by playing the title creature-from-another-planet in My Stepmother Is An Alien . |
| 14 | Their injuries have changed and taken over their lives . |
| 15 | Cotswold Wildlife Park aspires to show animals to people — so that they can come to understand and respect all forms of wildlife ; to understand what is special about each species , and how the various species have evolved and adapted over very long periods of time , adjusting and changing to survive in habitats from many parts of the earth . |