Example sentences of "had [to-vb] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to hunch over the wheel to see anything . |
| 2 | And , people from the town centre who were going home to Stoke had to go over the bridge . |
| 3 | In the end they had to go over the Bishop 's head , obtaining the authorization they wanted from the Pope . |
| 4 | I had to strain over the table to pick up the words . |
| 5 | Since they held Jordanian passports , it followed that those wishing to work or travel outside the West Bank had to pass over the bridge . |
| 6 | As the senior member of the Regency Council he had to preside over the disgrace , leading to execution , of his ally and friend Protector Somerset . |
| 7 | ‘ The roof has leaked for a year , ’ John said , ‘ and I had to cover over the electrics to protect them from the rain . |
| 8 | Well I had to climb over the wall and fucking jump there . |
| 9 | Because when I went up I had to climb over the steel plate . |
| 10 | " The Congressional Deputies had to shout over the loud-speaker so as to be heard above the noisy protest of hundreds of women market stallholders who filled the public galleries . " |
| 11 | When a bather wanted more hot water , he or she had to shout over the noise of filling baths and protesting bathers and the Duchesse singing , and depending on how this eccen-tric woman felt , she would either top up the water from a source outside the cubicles or tell the bather his time was up . |
| 12 | ‘ Reckon I 'll leave the embassy girls to you then , senator , ’ the Maggot had to shout over the sound of the engines , ‘ and me and Nick will just have to play with each other on account of forgetting to bring our ties . ’ |
| 13 | In it , he was filmed diving overboard in one scene , and in order to get the sequence right , he had to dive over the side seven times . |
| 14 | But if the defendant lost , he was ordered to pay his outstanding debt by instalments and if he defaulted on any one of them , he had to pay over the rest in one lump . |
| 15 | Well it will be upstairs cos there 's a pillow up no , no , hey listen he complained because he had to step over the pillow , that 's it ! |