Example sentences of "they [verb] over [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of them poring over maps and guide books , planning the itinerary of every marvellous day . |
| 2 | It uses them to turn over stones when it is looking for food . |
| 3 | Modern biographers suffer many accusations : that they trawl too widely and deeply ; that they pick over entrails insensitively , confirming Dr Arbuthnot 's definition of biography as ‘ the new terror of death ’ ; that they invade their subject 's most intimate quarters and lay all bare , regardless , it is said , of relevance or the feelings of surviving kin . |
| 4 | They peered over ant-hills and looked cautiously round clumps of teazle . |
| 5 | They are careless , they knock over tables and chairs , they leave doors open . |
| 6 | It could be some secret Franco-Agricultural plot — first the mad French farmers hijack our lamb , now they send over caterpillars to spike our vegetables . |
| 7 | Louis promised to help the Poitevins recover their losses , while they handed over hostages as a guarantee that they would keep their side of the bargain . |
| 8 | They climbed over stones and through narrow openings between trees , and at last they reached the very top of the hill . |
| 9 | They clambered over tussocks and humps . |
| 10 | He was laughed to scorn for returning with tales of people who actually ate the nests of birds , which they boiled over fires of burning black stones — seven centuries before the same black stones were discovered and harnessed in Europe to fuel the Industrial Revolution . |
| 11 | They do need an acid leafy soil , but they score over rhododendrons through being much more tolerant of dry summers , as the past three seasons have demonstrated . |
| 12 | Kestrels are popular with audiences at lectures , because they 're elegant little birds and also because , of all the British birds of prey , they 're the ones people are most likely to spot in the wild : they hover over motorways and are even seen in towns these days . |
| 13 | They come from Finland , America and Germany and they fight over mergers and acquisitions and venture capital . |
| 14 | In other species males have evolved special weapons with which they fight over females . |
| 15 | Aberdeen , the league leaders , are at home to Dundee United and Alex Smith , their manager , is contemplating ‘ at least one change ’ after last week 's defeat by Celtic which took away the points advantage they held over Rangers . |