Example sentences of "had [verb] over the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Finally , he had held out a bunch of one-dollar bills to her , said ‘ Rent , ’ and without another word had vaulted over the veranda balustrade and loped down the path to the garage .
2 In an instant he had vaulted over the side of their car and had begun swinging himself along towards the head of the train and the car occupied by Lord Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan .
3 The dog that had jumped over the fence into Jubilee Wood had n't been wearing a collar .
4 The fact that Mondrian had painted over the back of the canvas had helped keep the painting in particularly fine condition .
5 She had sprinted over the drive and was halfway across the stone-flagged terrace when a figure appeared around the corner of the house .
6 Even before the doors were opened in the spring of 1985 , an almighty row had developed over the usage of the centre by SM ( sadomasochism ) groups .
7 And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato .
8 It was an affectation that had developed over the years .
9 He had to hunch over the wheel to see anything .
10 A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature .
11 He had flown over the sea for a short time — the western sea , the wrong sea — then swung back on a reciprocal .
12 And , people from the town centre who were going home to Stoke had to go over the bridge .
13 In the end they had to go over the Bishop 's head , obtaining the authorization they wanted from the Pope .
14 Quite a bit had spilled over the floor already so nobody would notice any more .
15 It looked as though a grader had been over it just before the Amazonian rains had spilled over the Andes .
16 Queen Elizabeth 's vault in Westminster Abbey was examined in 1868 by Dean Stanley : ‘ There was no disorder or decay , except that the centring wood had fallen over the head of Elizabeth 's coffin , and that the wood case had crumbled away at the sides , and had drawn away part of the decaying lid . ’
17 The minute she had entered the room a grim , tense atmosphere had fallen over the Queen 's solar .
18 A stygian gloom had fallen over the world .
19 Below him he could hear the passing wail of sirens , a familiar sound after dark had fallen over the city .
20 The roads are hairpins , up and down , and they 're , they 're not tarmacked and so erm you often saw er buses that had fallen over the sides down into the river or that just were on their side , and that erm that obviously there 'd been accidents .
21 Even so , after several pints of the local brew , the big Swede had leaned over the bar , grabbed Renee 's skinny little shoulders , and planted a big cidery kiss smack on her lips .
22 He was described in this militia list as a weaver , the same trade that his ancestors had pursued over the generations .
23 Kleon , in Aristophanes ' Knights , is represented as a ‘ lover of the demos ’ , but Philodemos occurs as a proper name in an Athenian casualty-list of as early as c.460 ( ML 33 ) ; more important , Kleisthenes in the sixth century had taken the demos into partnership , as Herodotus puts it , and Pericles in the 460s had won over the people with jury pay .
24 Partly in the course of his business , partly out of a personal interest , Julian Hayman had amassed over the years a remarkably comprehensive archive of criminals of every kind .
25 And you see all the crop had vanished over the night .
26 The velvet curtains had dropped over the stage , and someone had thrown open the doors that separated this room from the next .
27 I had to strain over the table to pick up the words .
28 Former premiers Takeshita and Yasuhiro Nakasone , both of whom had resigned over the Recruit issue , became senior advisers to the party .
29 Blecha and Gratz had resigned over the affair in January 1989 [ see p. 36404 ] , while Öfner had left political office in 1986 .
30 The party 's headquarters in Edinburgh said yesterday that only four people had resigned over the decision to support the Government .
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