Example sentences of "[pron] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this may not create such serious problems if the dog is a small Jack Russell terrier , a larger dog could quite easily knock someone over and cause serious injury . |
| 2 | All for money — yet if he 'd got legless and run someone over and killed them , he 'd have got away with some poxy little sentence . |
| 3 | ‘ Jesus forgives you , ’ said someone over to my left . |
| 4 | I 'll send someone over to question your man Dalton . ’ |
| 5 | Okay listen there 's someone over |
| 6 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 7 | Well I 've got to take his over now , he 'll have to bring me back . |
| 8 | It seems to me that however attractive this addendum is , it 's taking us away from the real issue which is about the baptism one which the bishop er also kind of brought up er and which we 've been exercising ourselves over . |
| 9 | ‘ We wo n't concern ourselves over that until we know the outcome of my interview with my godmother , ’ he said firmly . |
| 10 | Erm so I slowed right down and then was criticized cos I over sl cos I slowed down too much . |
| 11 | If he/she can play with brothers and sisters ( or friends ) for , say , half an hour without squabbling , you call him/her over quietly and award an agreed number of tokens ( see page 57–9 ) . |
| 12 | I would suggest that if you are sure of your pieces , do n't read them over and over again on the way to the audition — once will be quite enough . |
| 13 | Tie in the new shoots on climbing roses , bending them over horizontally to encourage flowering side shoots . |
| 14 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 15 | She selected the first three pages — Lucy as she 'd been allowed to see her , and handed them over . |
| 16 | Although it is a great advantage to be just inside your weight category , some contestants forget that even a glass of water can tip them over . |
| 17 | Gillies turned back to the fire and spoke to them over his shoulder . |
| 18 | Another major advantage over the thinner types of cladding is that they provide additional insulation to exterior walls ( which can be augmented by fixing them over an extra layer of insulation ) . |
| 19 | Many of the latter were young , in their twenties , and included ‘ yuppies ’ in City and financial institutions who might not smoke a lot but took the attitude that they would smoke more at work if people pressured them over their habit . |
| 20 | I think I saw one of them over at it . |
| 21 | She had won them over completely . |
| 22 | It occurred to him as he turned them over that Nora Fanshawe — if she was Nora Fanshawe — probably stood to inherit a vast sum of money . |
| 23 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 24 | However , the route takes them over a culvert near the hospital . |
| 25 | We brought them over from County Antrim in Northern Ireland for an expenses-paid trip to London and an image transformation by haircare experts from Wella . |
| 26 | This is because index-linked funds would automatically favour them over their smaller rivals . |
| 27 | Settler children shout at bus drivers : ‘ Run them over , they are Arabs . ’ |
| 28 | To give enterprises a chance to adjust and to avoid a crunch that would undermine support for further reform , governments might need to start with high tariffs , promising to eliminate them over , say , five years . |
| 29 | This was done by comparing the shorthand notes of several senior lobby members who willingly handed them over . |
| 30 | Instead , he wholeheartedly takes them over : they show up materialism as an inadequate position and leave the way open for his spiritual immaterialism , with God at its centre . |