Example sentences of "he [vb past] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned over the page . |
| 2 | He turned over the facts again and again in his mind until their monotonous repetition affected him like a dull , nagging pain . |
| 3 | If nothing else , he 'd want some sort of come-back if we cheated him after he handed over the money . ’ |
| 4 | He handed over the keys to Angoulême and Montignac and their walls too were razed to the ground . |
| 5 | He would closet himself with a bottle of port and a cigar or pipe , read the end of the previous instalment , and then write the next , drawing his fee when he handed over the text . |
| 6 | He handed over the sarnies — ham and mustard in brown bread — to the usher , saying : ‘ His need is greater than mine . ’ |
| 7 | The award was presented to the club by Durham CIU vice- president Bill Laverick five years ago as an annual prize and he handed over the trophy at a special ceremony at the club . |
| 8 | Mark asked , as he handed over the fish and chips . |
| 9 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 10 | And he handed over the letter ( which had creased beautifully in his pocket ) with just the right note of impatient politeness . |
| 11 | If anything , his faith was strengthened in the mid-1950s , as he worked over the past to write his War Memoirs . |
| 12 | Then the dream had shifted to show him whistling as he worked over the bins . |
| 13 | ‘ In the beginning , Freddie did n't have all the powers that he wanted to have as a vocalist ; he worked to achieve those and improved as he worked over the years . |
| 14 | In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership . |
| 15 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 16 | In 1952 he took over the captaincy from Michael Barton . |
| 17 | It took Cuckney four years to overcome the financial crisis he encountered when he took over the Crown Agents in 1974 . |
| 18 | In 1441 he took over the work from two Venetian architects and supervised the work for the next three decades . |
| 19 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 20 | He began writing for Justice , the weekly paper of the SDF , which first appeared in January 1884 , and two years later he took over the editor 's position from H. M. Hyndman [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | That application form put him on the ladder , not only to the top of the Japanese profession , but to international recognition — on 1 January this year he took over the chairmanship of the International Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 22 | Bell was a supporter of the oral system , and upon learning of the difficulties faced by the Academy , he took over the teaching of the deaf children in the school for two months until the arrival of a Mr. Jones all the way from the U.S.A. to take over from him . |
| 23 | Caesar found a census of the population in the Greek script when he took over the camp of the Helvetii ( Bell . |
| 24 | In 1984 he took over the occupancy of 84 acres of land near Gosforth in Tyne and Wear which was owned by the Ashdale Land and Property Company . |
| 25 | Later in his career , when his delicate health forced him to give up racing , he took over the Danebury stables from John Day , and became renowned as a trainer of steeplechasers as well as flat racers . |
| 26 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 27 | It was logical , when he took over the Foundation , to concentrate on dance , and Gulbenkian in Lisbon approved . |
| 28 | He took over the £60,000-a-year plum job only three weeks ago . |
| 29 | It was 1837 that it became Ring & Brymer , an entity retained by Lord Forte when he took over the company in 1962 . |
| 30 | He took over the firm with some very clear ambitions . |