Example sentences of "i [vb past] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice . |
| 2 | ‘ I was up in Norwich when I doubled over in agony because the thing had moved inside me . |
| 3 | During that time I made over 45 phone calls to vets , zoos , aquariums , fishkeepers , garden centres , and local authorities — all to no avail . |
| 4 | I had wrapped the vase carefully in newspaper and put it in a string bag , which I slung over my shoulder . |
| 5 | I passed over my handkerchief . |
| 6 | No , I got over this problem by collecting data on a large series of babies to whom I had access during the preliminary work on this project . |
| 7 | I tumbled over a drunk lying spreadeagled in the close . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyway , when I went on to high school , I moved over to '70s American stuff — Television , The dB 's , Richard Hell And The Voidoids , Alex Chilton and Big Star . |
| 9 | ‘ I moved over from our house in Nimes with Raphael after Eric but now he is going to Manchester we 're staying here to live . |
| 10 | ‘ I moved over to auditing and I think I was very lucky because I was promoted quite quickly . |
| 11 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 12 | I was gardening and he said er er I bent over to do something and he said I just went dizzy , he said , and I fell over he said and then I realized my right side was paralysed . |
| 13 | I changed over to a lure I 'd bought in Hobart , the aptly named Tasmanian Devil , and I began to get the odd flathead on it and not bad fish either . |
| 14 | I charged over rocks and taking a run at sand , found that the wheel would skate for short stretches . |
| 15 | I falled over on the living room . |
| 16 | No , not I falled over I fell over . |
| 17 | My result in the afternoon race was the worst of the event as I dwelt over my fate up the first beat . |
| 18 | I peered over his shoulder at the spidery script . |
| 19 | He smiled absently on catching sight of me , and I wandered over and stood in the well of the Steinway . |
| 20 | And so I wandered over to the farm . |
| 21 | When he arrived , I wandered over . |
| 22 | I arrived at Ragdale Hall in a somewhat frenzied condition after a horrendous journey in which I encountered over 20 major roadworks and the JCBs ’ annual day out ! |
| 23 | I headed over to the Kylie to collect Peter , so as to have an additional adult on board , and finally back to Nada to pick up Terrie and the children . |
| 24 | ‘ I had similar problems when I stopped over in the Brown Islands , ’ he said . |
| 25 | ‘ I stopped over in Barbados . |
| 26 | The dresses which Ben and I pored over by phone and at snatched meetings were going to be sensational . |
| 27 | I cycled over from Creeting at the usual time and when I started it were all right . |
| 28 | And by the end of the two weeks I was just slapping paint here , there and everywhere and I painted over all the locks and things like that , because I did n't really care too much about it . |
| 29 | I got such a shock that I toppled over sideways , ending up chest deep in freezing water . |
| 30 | The wide chimney went without a nut and at the limit of the rope I toppled over my sack and sank onto a ledge . |