Example sentences of "had [verb] [to-vb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Preston , ’ said Polly , when she came down from putting the twins to bed and in a tone he had come to recognise over the years . |
| 2 | But it is a victory for the environment secretary Jose Lutzenberger , who had threatened to resign over the issue . |
| 3 | Perkin had had to get over the shock of finding my familiar ski-jacket and boots in the boathouse and then the far worse shock of the cataclysmic reversal of his scheme when Harry and I both lived . |
| 4 | The newsheet had started to appear over the past few days as the villagers began to return to their homes . |
| 5 | As we have seen , in a large number of colonies the authorities had been involved in publishing newspapers , Using both the colonial and local languages , they had tried to put over the official point of view , often in an attempt to forestall or counter alternative interpretations and opinions . |
| 6 | She watched the swallows that had begun to fly over the hill in the last of the light ; they skimmed close , almost round her feet . |
| 7 | The pinky hue of the eastern sky had begun to spill over the giant three centuries old building at the east end of the Square when I called at 7 a.m. sharp to meet him . |
| 8 | Kirov assessed the scant information he had managed to accumulate over the last few weeks . |