Example sentences of "[pers pn] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 've got to take his over now , he 'll have to bring me back . |
| 2 | Erm so I slowed right down and then was criticized cos I over sl cos I slowed down too much . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tie in the new shoots on climbing roses , bending them over horizontally to encourage flowering side shoots . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She selected the first three pages — Lucy as she 'd been allowed to see her , and handed them over . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Gillies turned back to the fire and spoke to them over his shoulder . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I think I saw one of them over at it . |
| 13 | She had won them over completely . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 16 | However , the route takes them over a culvert near the hospital . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is because index-linked funds would automatically favour them over their smaller rivals . |
| 19 | Settler children shout at bus drivers : ‘ Run them over , they are Arabs . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This was done by comparing the shorthand notes of several senior lobby members who willingly handed them over . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The transfer of goods is most commonly made by merely handing them over , and such a transfer is equally effectual whether the transfer is for value or by way of gift . |
| 24 | She felt the two paper carriers swinging where Gloria had put them over her wrists . |
| 25 | But after turning them over to reveal the palms , he declared : ‘ But the palms are so beautiful , the lines so clear and simple , the shape so pure . ’ |
| 26 | There were meadow browns , small skippers , and even painted ladies flitting among the tall flowering grasses on the canal bank , bending them over as they settled , knocking off the pollen in puffs of fine , yellow mist . |
| 27 | A sinister impulse to collect and to eat has taken them over . |
| 28 | He had these weights — dumbells like — and he said if anybody could lift them over their heads , he 'd give them a gold watch . |
| 29 | There was the weighted velvet curtain that had once hung in the Star Theatre , now fixed to a huge rod with rings so large that Frankie could slip them over his arms like bangles . |
| 30 | As a matter of fact , he hated anyone to get to the post before himself , needed to be the first to turn them over and sort them out . |