Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The object he had tripped over was the pistol ; it was so heavy that it was all he could do to raise it . |
| 2 | Bankruptcy sharply lowered Hooley 's social position , but made less difference to his lifestyle , not least because before his crash he had made over to his wife both Papworth and Risley Hall and their contents . |
| 3 | Sometimes he would secretly watch other eagles whose territory he had trespassed over , to learn from them the art of quartering back and forth over an area to find prey and flush it out |
| 4 | The traveller then saw that he was sitting right on the edge of a cliff , and if he had leaned over to get the log he would have fallen to his death . |
| 5 | The shocked driver assumed that he had run over and killed someone on the line , but on investigation there was no injured person to be found . |
| 6 | It had been knocked from its cradle when he had gone over with the first shot . |
| 7 | He had reached over and was gripping her shoulder with his left hand , holding her so that her face was close to his . |
| 8 | He had toppled over before the Collector had time to catch his heels . |
| 9 | And this is not the only place in The Exile where Pound shows himself restive inside the image of himself that had been built up among initiates by his propaganda of fifteen years before , when he had taken over ‘ imagism ’ and championed Ford Madox Ford 's ideas about a diction for poetry that should be ‘ plain ’ and ‘ direct ’ . |
| 10 | The year before Mountbatten died he had taken over the reins of the United World Colleges ( UWC ) from his great-uncle . |
| 11 | There were a few exercises they forbade , and would never let the Prince pilot supersonic Buccaneers or the Sea King anti-submarine helicopters ; but he did qualify for membership of the exclusive Ten Ton Club , by flying at more than 1,000 m.p.h. in a phantom scrambled from Leuchars in Fife , which he had taken over Balmoral before going supersonic off the coast of Scotland . |
| 12 | He has become an expendable symbol of the 21 years lost by Czechoslovaks since the invasion of August 1968 , for he had taken over , apparently without compunction , from Mr Alexander Dubcek as Communist Party leader when the latter was humiliated at the beginning of 1969 . |
| 13 | On Christmas day they stopped sending aid to the country , because he had taken over its government yet again . |
| 14 | This Mr Kravchuk did late on Monday night , announcing that he had taken over all forces in Ukraine apart from strategic nuclear missiles , and with a reported order from Ukrainian air force command banning all flights by the fleet 's planes . |
| 15 | He first noticed a young boy early one summer , about a year or so after he had taken over Entwhistle Halt . |
| 16 | That he had taken over Joe the Fish 's businesses and made a name for himself among the villains . |
| 17 | In Normandy , that part of France which he had made peculiarly his , he had taken over everyday government , now exercised in his name by men appointed by him . |
| 18 | The driver never disputed that the engine was a foreigner , but pins his defence , he pointed out that the week previous , he had taken over and ex-LNER B.1 4–6–0 working from Sheffield to Llandudno , and despite that being a foreigner , had been acceptable . |
| 19 | Without declaring for or against the coup , Sukarno issued an ordinance stating he had taken over command of the armed forces . |
| 20 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 21 | Although he had made it a condition of his NBC appearance that his whereabouts not be disclosed , Neal Miller called next day to say that he had taken over as his handler and to reprimand him for doing the broadcast without permission . |
| 22 | He had taken over the management of his sister 's bakery . |
| 23 | He had taken over her affairs again , picked them up as if he had never been away , and she could do nothing about it unless she began to create a great fuss . |
| 24 | Engaged in rapidly expanding the size of the business , which he had taken over from his father , Ross had had little or no time for his young wife or her problems . |
| 25 | Seeing she was getting nowhere with Paul , he had taken over and saved her from having to cope with a great deal of harassment . |
| 26 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 27 | He managed to hide his hysteria until he had handed over my mail . |
| 28 | External Affairs Minister Madhavsinh Solanki resigned on March 31 after admitting that he had handed over a note to his Swiss counterpart , René Felber , requesting the Swiss government to slow down its investigations into pay-offs to high-ranking Indian officials allegedly deposited into Swiss bank accounts by the Swedish armaments company AB Bofors [ see pp. 35336 ; 35382 ] . |
| 29 | He had rolled over just a little , and opened his eyes . |
| 30 | Would he ever know which friends and fellows he had delivered over to the government in that one fatally careless moment ? |