Example sentences of "over [conj] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1950s and 60s he took over or formed a number of firms — Sun Resta Ltd , Multi Resta Ltd , Sleepy Valley Ltd etc , and one , Multi Spring Ltd in Mitcham Surrey , which according to its headed note paper are ‘ contractors to HM Government ’ . |
| 2 | Often the reasons for being passed over or failing a job interview will not be properly explained . |
| 3 | So everybody was telling me about this so I went away over and had a look at it . |
| 4 | A teacher who regards his work in this way , who sees his task as being not merely an overseer of academic progress but a mature adult who watches over and helps a child to find personal identity in an ever more complex and fast moving world may deservedly claim to be considered doing work worthy of professional status . |
| 5 | She leaned over and chose a chocolate biscuit . |
| 6 | Otherwise , you may find that two leaves cross over and hide a flower or a bud . |
| 7 | After my uncle 's death in April 1976 he visited Wyvis Hall on perhaps two , or at the most three , separate occasions simply for the purpose of looking it over and reaching a decision about the disposal of furniture and effects . |
| 8 | Deaf people will think the film 's over and take a hike before I get to do my roof-top ending . ’ |
| 9 | He showed a handful of greasepaint and rubber to the officer , who strode over and asked a question . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's always the case of black people having to go mainstream to be accepted , instead of us doing our shit how we wan na do it and them coming over and taking a look , ’ says Roger D. ‘ We 're doing it for ourselves now . |
| 11 | The reaper cut the corn by bending over and gasping a bunch of ears in his left hand , as Caleb Howe did on his allotment , inserting the sickle and drawing it towards him in a sawing action . |
| 12 | They 've got a spare room in my mum 's flat so I just took it over and put a weights bench in and , what else , a rowing machine and I started to do some weights |
| 13 | Unless she says she going to so to go over and spend a weekend now and again with her kids but er that sounds right . |
| 14 | you wo n't move over and let a labour government introduce a national minimum wage . |
| 15 | He says I 'll get her to come over and have a chat with you . |
| 16 | I 'll go over and have a word with him . |
| 17 | I said what will you do pull over and have a go at him . |
| 18 | There 's a nice china dog on the side by some books , but I do n't go over and have a look . |
| 19 | Yeah we 'll go over and have a look . |
| 20 | Well let me go over and have a look at it and see what they 've got . |
| 21 | ‘ Why do n't you both come over and have a cup of tea some time ? ’ he suggests . |
| 22 | He reached over and found a table for his own cup . |
| 23 | Molly turned the paper over and found a list of figures prefixed with lire signs and equipped with what seemed to her to be generous allowances of noughts . |
| 24 | Then there 's Koblenz where a huge castle overlooks the meeting and mingling of the Rhine with the Moselle , or you could even pop over and take a look at this smaller and gentler river . |
| 25 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 26 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 27 | ‘ Come over and have a drink sometime . ’ |
| 28 | They thought it over and suggested a percentage to the labourer if he provided the baskets and made the sale . |
| 29 | No Claire came out last night she 's fallen over and got a hole in them with a pair of woolly tights . |
| 30 | In 1798 , General Humbert of France came over and won a battle near there , but he took so long that the nearby towns had time to refortify . |