Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | On two occasions he applied to take over redundant or nearly redundant churches and on a third to start a new church . |
| 3 | Driving with considerable power , he failed to get over a ball of fullish length , giving Wessels a stinging catch at mid-on . |
| 4 | ‘ He got run over . |
| 5 | He got run over by an articulated lorry . |
| 6 | He got bound over to keep the peace for punching the guy who got fired . ’ |
| 7 | He 'd heard over and over again how fast she 'd died . |
| 8 | He 'd gone over to the hedge that ran along each side of the white lodge and he 'd sat down . |
| 9 | Then , her arms under his and locked on his chest , she 'd drag my father 's dead weight from wherever he 'd fallen over to the cushions . |
| 10 | I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step . |
| 11 | As he did so , still lying there with his legs up on the chair he 'd fallen over , he started to over-balance to one side , towards Fergus . |
| 12 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 13 | The other night when I got in , he told me to put my feet up , gave me a G and T and dished up the dinner he 'd slaved over . |
| 14 | When he 'd started regaining his confidence he told us that he 'd taken over from Terry in the endless arguments with David Jacobsen . |
| 15 | He 'd taken over from Hercule Riquard as maître de chai , and he poured his whole life into promoting La Tour Monchauzet wines into a class of their own . |
| 16 | But there 's a couple of guys in another division over there that they were quite keen on er aircraft and they spent weeks building these bloody things and then er , and experienced flyer he 'd taken over to the other , other side of the estate when he had a bit of runway over there |
| 17 | Twice he 'd driven over to see his mother and come back optimistic that she 'd come round to the marriage and visit them one day soon . |
| 18 | When he 'd been appointed a Minister he 'd handed over his parcel of shares to his wife , Leonora . |
| 19 | Nothing for him , so he 'd wandered over to pretend an interest in the shop 's felt-covered notice board while he tried to overhear the conversation of two men who were trying on shooting jackets . |
| 20 | He turned to look over his shoulder . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then with a great shout he began to plunge over bodies and kit-bags down the gangway towards us . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . " |
| 25 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 26 | He started to come over , did n't he ? |
| 27 | He decided to stop over in Paris and spend a couple of days following a similar route . |
| 28 | To her surprise he offered to come over to the office . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He managed to put over a fairly complex argument in a brilliantly simple way . ’ |