Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She had travelled over with her boyfriend and did n't know the system . |
| 2 | There were two dry docks and if she had veered over , she 'd have gone into the oil storage area . |
| 3 | When the food was all served and before the entertainments began , she had gone over to speak to him . |
| 4 | Susan had evidently found some coal and sticks and had lit the range ; then the heat had overcome her , and she had toppled over — and her jumper had caught fire . |
| 5 | All the children , except Millie , scrambled from the room : she had staggered over to a side wall and was leaning against it , her hands hanging by her side , her mouth wide open to let her gasping breath free . |
| 6 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |
| 7 | For Jay , many things in life had been easy , a walk-over , ; she had leapt over and through the academic hurdles and hoops of childhood and teenage with a lazy facility that she only realised later . |
| 8 | Still in her wrap , she had hurried over to the drawer where the letters were kept . |
| 9 | She herself had never aspired to a career , finding complete satisfaction in acting as her husband 's typist and research assistant in the time she had left over from gardening and housekeeping . |
| 10 | She had driven over to him after the metamorphosis had been completed to her satisfaction — not just the punk hair-do , short spiky , crimson-dyed and outrageous — and the make-up , orange domino mask and a curve of ochre on the cheeks — but clothes , too , tight , tarty , as far removed from the Victorian image as possible . |
| 11 | Once clear of the cloud , she had handed over the controls to him and taught him how to use the power and propeller pitch levers , how to bank the plane sharply , how to descend and climb with power and nose attitude . |
| 12 | She had taken over Nigel 's old bike . |
| 13 | She had taken over the caravan and his life . |
| 14 | It was almost the first news story she had taken over the newsroom headphones and she knew the absolute importance of accuracy . |
| 15 | She rose early and spent the morning with Aunt Emily or visiting the kitchen and garden and orchard and doing the household accounts and the correspondence she had taken over from her aunt . |
| 16 | Campion Price really did seem to be a reformed character and Margaret was positively glowing , all the care she had taken over her appearance in the bad years paying handsome dividends , particularly now her lovely eyes were bright with a long-hidden joy . |