Example sentences of "they [verb] over their [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | City went into this game knowing that anything less than three points would leave them looking over their shoulders toward the relegation area . |
| 2 | They might be excellent at math — but they stumble over their tongues saying good morning to the mailman . ’ |
| 3 | Even in daylight , Mrs Connolly added , they look over their shoulders . |
| 4 | They stand over their riders while they sleep and watch for any danger . |
| 5 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 6 | At any rate , the sound belongs to Bivouac , a band geographically rooted in the southern bit of northern England , but so good that one has to demand they hand over their passports to allay the suspicion that here is yet another bunch of Americans with the route to amped-up melodic nirvana stuffed casually in their lumbershirts . |
| 7 | Now the GA aerodrome is no more , the ATZ has vanished from the charts , and the good citizens of Grimbergen are finding they have exchanged the gentle putter of Lycomings and Continentals for the full-throated roar of northbound RR- , GE- and P & W-powered 747s and Airbuses as they thunder over their rooftops after take-off from Brussels ' Runway 25R . |
| 8 | Dressed as cowboys , they climbed aboard their trusty steeds ( 's Datsun ! ) and set off in the direction of the County Hall in Exeter where they ambushed the staff and persuaded them to hand over their readies . |