Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | But am I strong enough to watch him trying to fly over things and skim around things and fritter energy and search ? |
| 2 | He agreed to hand over ‘ the castles , holds and fortresses of Scotland to the cardinal and the said earls , to cause them to be kept by such as they thought meet ’ . |
| 3 | On two occasions he applied to take over redundant or nearly redundant churches and on a third to start a new church . |
| 4 | Driving with considerable power , he failed to get over a ball of fullish length , giving Wessels a stinging catch at mid-on . |
| 5 | Part of his stock-in-trade when he wants to take over an organization . |
| 6 | Indeed , there are even rumours that he wants to take over BAe . |
| 7 | let's ask him if he wants to come over for dinner cos we do n't have dinner until half four anyway |
| 8 | Eventually he plans to hand over his records to air force museums in the UK and United States . |
| 9 | He turned to look over his shoulder . |
| 10 | But in his first televised interview since becoming president-elect , Clinton said he would focus ‘ like a laser beam ’ on the US economy as he prepares to take over the White House on January 20 . |
| 11 | It was this second scheme that Franco was inclined to favour and whose realization he began to turn over in his mind in the autumn of 1936 . |
| 12 | Then with a great shout he began to plunge over bodies and kit-bags down the gangway towards us . |
| 13 | Not that he had the faintest idea of the contents of the envelope he carried within the breast pocket of the jacket he declined to hand over to the stewardess . |
| 14 | He declined to hand over the cash , no matter what was threatened , and he was too good a salesman to be sacked , so the dealing manager yelled over to the accounts clerk : " Deduct £50 from his month 's wages . " |
| 15 | He started to come over , did n't he ? |
| 16 | He decided to stop over in Paris and spend a couple of days following a similar route . |
| 17 | To her surprise he offered to come over to the office . |
| 18 | Jerry also earned three full International caps for Eire ( qualifying on his father 's nationality ) , but once the Palace began to lose their way his laconic and delicate style became on occasions at least , something of a luxury our side could ill-afford , and when he became a free agent in 1985 he chose to move over to Chelsea . |
| 19 | He managed to put over a fairly complex argument in a brilliantly simple way . ’ |
| 20 | He managed to glance over his shoulder , see Ace and Defries , and lift his left arm in greeting . |
| 21 | Owner Dave West says he expects to turn over £3 million this year . |
| 22 | ‘ He liked to look over his visitors before a meeting . |
| 23 | " We 're to perch here till he decides to take over . " |
| 24 | Was he trying to rake over old coals ? |
| 25 | Elsham signalbox is situated in a very remote part of the Lincolnshire countryside and thus evokes more strange happenings that baffled John Daubney when he had to take over the box as a relief signalman . |
| 26 | To do this he had to lean over and push the bolt firmly into place . |
| 27 | Three times he had to pull over to examine the map . |
| 28 | Going through the rock gardens , he had to climb over and climb under the trunks of fallen pine trees ; he found he was weak . |
| 29 | He had been through it before and had already told the Captain he was sure that was the car , though he had n't looked at the driver and front passenger , having been distracted by the map and by watching the traffic coming from all three directions because he wanted to cross over . |
| 30 | They were all staying in this Florida hotel … where postman Keith Thompson was shot dead after he refused to hand over his money to muggers . |