Example sentences of "i [vb past] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If , no matter how randomly you threw matter around , the resulting conglomeration could often be said , with hindsight , to be good for something , then it would be true to say that I cheated over the swallow and the whale . |
2 | I argued over the wording of the campaign slogan because I felt that ‘ Do n't Forget the British Hostages in Beirut ’ was better than ‘ Free the Hostages ’ or ‘ Support the Hostages ’ . |
3 | During my time at the DHSS I met over the table with three Chief Secretaries and , I have to admit , had battles with them all . |
4 | I passed over the field at around 1000 ft . |
5 | Making our way through the crowds — great busloads of excited if baffled-looking Rajasthani villagers — Dr Jaffery and I passed over the moat and through the outer gate , part of the indecorous additional defences erected outside Shah Jehan 's fort by Aurangzeb . |
6 | ‘ I passed over the gas rigs right on track to Ronaldsway . |
7 | I passed over the cheque my landlord had given me . |
8 | When six chimed on the clock above the door , I reluctantly asked him to push the blind back in , and to lock up while I checked over the day 's takings . |
9 | I shouted over the gale . |
10 | ‘ We need a diversion , ’ I shouted over the cacophony . |
11 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
12 | She clung to me , as I bent over the bed . |
13 | I peered over the battlements . |
14 | I peered over the edge . |
15 | The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs . |
16 | I came over the Brownies ' Bridge . |
17 | I came over the moors through the snow to the Grange . |
18 | After this , I felt a little refreshed but as I came over the hill towards Lochinver , my legs rebelled . |
19 | Within half an hour of breaking camp , I came over the brow of a hill — compacted earth with pockets of drifted sand . |
20 | As I came over the brow , there was nothing but a windswept plateau . |
21 | With a feeling of having been unexpectedly let out of school , I drove over the hills on the road to Reading and coasted along the unfenced part of the Quillersedge Estate until I thought I 'd come more or less to where Gareth had dropped the paint : parked off the road there and searched more closely for the place on foot . |
22 | Gripping the ski-poles I tried to keep myself steady as the velocity increased and then , all of a sudden I sailed over the edge and felt myself going head over heels towards a white mass of snow far below . |
23 | I , too , began to fear for my life as I stooped over the lavatory bowl . |
24 | I clambered over the wall separating his garden from the orchard and followed him into the cottage . |
25 | They all shook hands with me , and the Frenchman gave me a bag containing one dozen eggs before I clambered over the wall and into the orchard . |
26 | I clambered over the wall and dropped on the other side and made my way quickly across the field in the direction of the cottage . |
27 | I clambered over the rubble where I thought it was safe to do so , and got one piece of the great white pulpit , and the last page of the Bible I knew had been used by Dr Thomas Chalmers before his mission to New Guinea . |
28 | But finally a muddy old train trundles in from deepest Essex , chattering to itself like the Little Red Engine : ‘ I 'm a good little engine , I climbed over the hill . ’ |
29 | I shuffled over the parquet |
30 | As regards myself I rarely ever tire or find the day too long though I am constantly walking a circumstance which being considered much to my health being better able to bear fatigue than when last I walked over the hills with you and I found your advice not to take spirits very very judicious . |