Example sentences of "he [vb past] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a long pause while she cleared the bed of her things , and she was aware of his eyes on her every movement as he checked over the items she 'd packed for any signs of decadence . |
| 2 | Then Sir Beaumains … rode all that ever he might ride through marshes and fields and great dales , that many times he plunged over the head in deep mires , for he knew not the way , but took the gainest way in that woodness … |
| 3 | By protecting the producers and merchants and by imposing tolls and customs dues he could profit from it doubly so if he ruled over the English and Norman ports into which the wine was imported . |
| 4 | At the turn of the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Norman Anonymous ( formerly known as the Anonymous of York ) wrote that ‘ the king reigns with Christ ’ , reflecting the common doctrine of the tenth and early eleventh centuries that the king was Christ 's vicar , that he was rex et sacerdos , that although he could not administer the sacraments , he ruled over the Church as well as over his temporal kingdom , that all authority was vested in him . |
| 5 | Bragg asked as he passed over the lens . |
| 6 | The tobacco weighed out into the two separate tins he passed over the counter to her , he said , ‘ That 'll be one and tuppence ha'penny , eh lass ? ’ |
| 7 | As they came up into the May morning he hopped over the ditch and skipped into the long grass as blithe as a squirrel . |
| 8 | Although his face was damp with perspiration he winked over the rim of his coffee mug , and Chuck , reassured , smiled back . |
| 9 | The room fell silent , and from his great height he gazed over the room with that familiar expression he put on when being headmasterly — an expression that was at once dyspeptic yet predatory ( for were they not , after all , his prey ? ) . |
| 10 | He vacillated over the lorry-drivers ' strike , shrinking in the end from declaring a state of emergency and ruling out the use of troops to move medical supplies from the docks . |
| 11 | Besides , as pecuniary punishments may increase the number of robbers , by increasing the number of poor , and may deprive an innocent family of subsistence , the most proper punishment will be that kind of slavery , which alone can be called just ; that is , which makes society , for a time , absolute master of the person , and labour of the criminal , in order to oblige him to repair , by this dependence , the unjust despotism he usurped over the property of another , and his violation of the social compact . |
| 12 | NHS At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , was loudly cheered on producing a long computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ costing £3bn , which he unrolled over the rostrum for the benefit of photographers from newspapers which had criticised the Tories ' record on the NHS . |
| 13 | He breathed a sigh of relief as he bumped over the crest . |
| 14 | He drooled over the knife . |
| 15 | From 1844 to 1846 he was chairman of the provisional committee formed to build one , and he presided over the board of the Cornwall Railway in 1846–50 . |
| 16 | In 1649 he became deputy chief justice of the Chester circuit , in which capacity he presided over the trials of James Stanley , seventh Earl of Derby , Sir Timothy Fetherstonhaugh [ qq.v. ] , and John Benbowe in October 1651 . |
| 17 | There he presided over the expansion of his French National Committee into a new , more broadly based provisional government known as the French Committee of National Liberation ( CFLN — Comité Français de Libération Nationale ) . |
| 18 | Finally , he presided over the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325 . |
| 19 | Enthroned in 1971 , in his last years he presided over the church 's rehabilitation by the Soviet authorities after decades of repression . |
| 20 | He presided over the creation of the British Sugar Corporation , served as its chairman between 1935 and 1949 , and was also chairman of a number of other companies , including the Iraq Petroleum Company between 1941 and 1950 . |
| 21 | Secondly he presided over the integration of the Blackpool and Fleetwood Company in 1920 , reconstructing the electrical distribution system on the line . |
| 22 | The first Supervisor ( 1856 ) of the whole natural history collections was Richard Owen , and he presided over the move to South Kensington ( 1881 ) . |
| 23 | World leaders marvelled at the spell he cast over the crowds . |
| 24 | Home again , and alone , he rhapsodised over the scene he had witnessed . |
| 25 | He peered over the top . |
| 26 | At first he peered over the top of his spectacles , eyeing his visitors severely . |
| 27 | He had forgotten to take off his spectacles and he peered over the top of them . |
| 28 | He peered over the parapet . |
| 29 | He peered over the rim of his spectacles at each of the room 's occupants in turn before continuing . |
| 30 | He was deeply disappointed when he peered over the bank . |