Example sentences of "they have [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerry was taught to drive in nineteen forty six in the States , where they , they gone , they 'd gone over to total automatic , and he despised manual gears , thought they were a ridiculous waste of time and effort , said you want to concentrate on the , on the road , not on the car , but then you see Gerry improved himself , he was a |
| 2 | Well a a a at the time , they 'd just changed over from the erm Tenants ' Development Association , to the Tenants ' Action Group , so it was a bit disorganized to begin with , cos we were still sorting out the , everything from what they 'd left over and things , so , but once we 'd got that all so once they 'd got that all sorted out , yeah , it was . |
| 3 | After they 'd looked over about ten children , the doctor yawned and said , ‘ I do n't see any problems here . |
| 4 | I rue the day these wretched Titfords ever came to live down here — could n't they have stayed over in Wilmington Square ? |
| 5 | Maybe the single parent is seen as somehow highlighting the cracks that couples think they 've covered over . |
| 6 | They 've run over to the sheep ! |
| 7 | They 've papered over , I know . |
| 8 | In 1988 , Ruth Barclay teamed up with her niece , Sherrie Bodie , to open Barclay & Bodie which has been so successful they 've taken over the shop next door . |
| 9 | They 've taken over one of the conference-rooms downstairs . |
| 10 | He says that in previous cases where they 've taken over contracts they 've offered up to 98 per cent of employees their jobs back . |
| 11 | The they 've taken over a place , only temporary but they 're ever so cheap in there ! |
| 12 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 13 | No you could n't I mean er at you know the the doors would n't be open be I mean you know , you could picture a wardrobe without a door , but you were working you were sandpapering that on the inside and er maybe brushing it up and down and then sandpapering that again and then they had to go over with what we call the rubber . |
| 14 | The companies vied with each other to find new settings for the basic story-lines and messages that they had to put over . |
| 15 | In their ‘ kitchen ’ ( a sink , a hot plate and a kettle , with no proper cooking or storage facilities ) , they point proudly to some Tory Party mugs they had biked over from Smith Square after the election . |
| 16 | He turned what little they had discovered over and over in his mind . |
| 17 | A voice that they had heard over and over again as they sat in Keith 's sitting-room . |
| 18 | They had to travel over extremely bad terrain on the way but by 13 December they were in place . |
| 19 | On the Vienna and Berlin routes every transport had its smattering of adult supervisors , who had to sign a pledge to return immediately they had handed over their charges to the RCM . |
| 20 | The further they got from the rave the more bodies they had to step over . |
| 21 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |
| 22 | ‘ You have to wonder how some of the big names would have coped if they had taken over at Tranmere — or at this place four years ago . ’ |
| 23 | The town was the capital of the central Afghanistan province of Urozgan , and mujaheddin sources reported that they had taken over the administration of the entire province following the defection of its governor , its chief of police , and Tarin Kot 's garrison of 500 . |
| 24 | The three announced that they had taken over the leadership of the SPLA and accused Garang , who had led the organization since its creation in 1983 , of dictatorial behaviour . |
| 25 | According to the report local militias dominated by Uzbek , Tajik and Shia Ismaeli ethnic groups had formed an alliance with local mujaheddin units ( including fighters commanded by Ahmed Shah Masud ) in late March , and together they had taken over control of the city from Pashtun units . |
| 26 | The help facility is very useful , not only for training new users , but also for infrequent users who suddenly find that they have to take over urgent work at short notice . |
| 27 | They 're in deep political trouble because the the electorate is simply distanced from the messages they have to put over . |
| 28 | They have flown over by Qantas Airlines specially for the event . |
| 29 | They have taken over and breed in a pride which is not the one in which they were born . |
| 30 | They have taken over the Christian 's own cliché and complain that many are ‘ too heavenly-minded to be any earthly use ! ’ |