Example sentences of "had [verb] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Falling under the spell of an older , flamboyantly dressed and well-educated kinsman , Esme Stuart , who had come over from France , he was suspected of dangerously Papist leanings and of some unnatural sexual habits . |
| 32 | I had already employed an attendant , Toril , who had come over from Norway at the end of July to help me during and after my move . |
| 33 | The Kleibers had come over from Germany some years before the war , and settled in Poplar . |
| 34 | Everyone was wandering around the house getting everything ready for my uncle who had come over from Nigeria . |
| 35 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 36 | The task of of carving through the English countryside was carried out by unskilled navvies , many of whom had come over from Ireland to earn a living . |
| 37 | Ari , rubbing her bruises , had limped over to Nathan who was weeping uncontrollably , telling everyone it was his fault . |
| 38 | Many of the older people found it difficult to throw off the ‘ criminal , associations which had carried over from the fifties and sixties . |
| 39 | Noticing the way the young woman 's eyes had glazed over with undisguised longing , while he appeared faintly bored with the proceedings , Shannon had mentally given thanks for the fact that she was n't drawn to gorgeous , self-centred hunks like this one . |
| 40 | Stephen had been told he was needed in the factory which had turned over to war work but Joe and Terry had applied to join the Irish Guards , and Eileen to join the WAAFs . |
| 41 | John Ensall said residual problems had hung over from the change in working arrangements introduced in January . |
| 42 | It was here that the Caroline reformers achieved nothing because the crown could not recapture the powers it had made over to local municipal oligarchs . |
| 43 | In August 1912 he resigned , ostensibly in order to rehabilitate the Elibank estates which his father had made over to him . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | which had grown over with grass |
| 46 | The world had flipped over in her mind . |
| 47 | Dalgliesh had moved over to the fireplace , a plain wooden overmantel with an iron surround patterned with grapes and convolvulus set in the middle of the right-hand wall . |
| 48 | Janice Rae had smiled over at me , her hair fetchingly disarrayed , her cheeks flushed . |
| 49 | Not only would The Silmarillion have to achieve the ‘ depth ’ it had already been used to create , it would have to do so without contradicting , and while if possible reinforcing , all the millions of details Tolkien had handed over to his readership already . |
| 50 | The Independent of Nov. 15 had meanwhile published details of internal UN documents which seemed to suggest that a UN official had handed over to the Moroccan government information supplied in confidence by the Polisario Front . |
| 51 | To counteract that feeling , and while he propped her ‘ injured ’ foot on a stool and attended to her bruising , she opened her bag and extracted from it the envelope with Cara had handed over to her . |
| 52 | Instead the orbs had sunk back and there was a darkness to the face , a suppressed despair , even an agitation that spoke of tedious things , so unlike those experiences we had laughed over in the past . |
| 53 | The chair had toppled over with Donald still attached . |
| 54 | We had crossed over to Mykines early in the day , sailing down the long fiord from the village of Sørvágur . |
| 55 | The next morning the Swiss detective agency called to say that Dimitri Volkov and his companion had crossed over to France . |
| 56 | My parents had stayed over in Middlesbrough that night and they were taking me home the next day . |
| 57 | Still in her wrap , she had hurried over to the drawer where the letters were kept . |
| 58 | Marjorie made a moue at Isobel , who had walked over to the cot in the far comer of the room and was standing in the same apparently relaxed but watchful posture she had displayed downstairs . |
| 59 | That morning he had walked over to the Hoflin farm and asked Suzi to go to the cinema with him that evening , after her class . |
| 60 | He had walked over to the lift and waited with her too , she recalled without effort , as Lubor walked to the lift with her and pressed the lift call button . |