Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ECJ has rather wavered over the issue in relation to the Transfers Directive . |
| 2 | Desperately unlucky at Crayford last month , the lightweight bitch has since won over the Leger course . |
| 3 | The terminal checks with the bank 's computer that the number corresponds with the card , and that the customer has not spent over the limit of £200 that day . |
| 4 | Those waiting to see whether Edwards or Tony Myler gets the stand-off shirt must likewise wait a little longer , and Reilly has also prevaricated over the choice between Alan Tait and Steve Hampson at full-back , though neither player is injured . |
| 5 | All car production has now gone over the road to what was the Body plant . |
| 6 | She sits stunned , as if she was dragged out the same water , half-drowned , an hour ago and has n't got over the cold . |
| 7 | Sybil still has n't got over the shock — and do n't you go insulting my family . |
| 8 | He has n't got over the shock yet . |
| 9 | He has n't got over the shock yet . |
| 10 | On the face of it , it is hardly promising that the soft left has immediately split over the post of deputy . |
| 11 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 12 | Having gingerly discarded over a hedge bits of rotted fruit and suspect cheese , I lunched on olives and mineral water in the shade of a great oak wood . |
| 13 | I did n't think anyone was aware of my leg ; I do limp , but for all they knew I might have just tripped over a plug or something . |
| 14 | It was possible to think , as she herself points out , that she had merely tripped over a plug or something ; in fact Ann has an artificial leg . |
| 15 | She was not going to fall in love with him , but even as she said this vehemently to herself , Sara was afraid that she had already gone over the precipice she had been conscious of this morning . |
| 16 | So long as the old couple had not made over the farm , their middle-aged son remained a ‘ boy ’ : ‘ You can be a boy here forever as long as the old fellow is still alive ’ . |
| 17 | Bill rang police up and he says , oh he said I 've just run over a dog ! |
| 18 | ‘ We 've just crossed over a road , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The sun had just appeared over the treeline , as blond as clarified butter but powerful none the less , hinting at the furnace-heat to come . |
| 20 | We had just passed over a gaggle of eighteen-thousand-foot volcanoes , great slag heaps of ash with gaping vents pointed at the clear blue bowl of the heavens , when he finally shifted in his seat and leaned across me to look out of the window , blinking his eyes . |
| 21 | He pulled the door wide ; then before she had hardly got over the step he slammed it closed . |
| 22 | Somehow her fingers had automatically closed over the bag he had thrust forward . |
| 23 | And he glanced down at Changez 's duff hand again as if to reconfirm that his brother had really sent over a cripple as a husband for his only daughter . |
| 24 | Somehow the chap , who had plainly gone over the top , he could understand that , must be convinced they were no threat to him . |
| 25 | She still had n't got over the shock of seeing David Markham again ; it must be … she did a rapid calculation in her head … all of five years since he 'd walked out of their lives . |
| 26 | Ana had beamed at this and Mitch had looked stunned , especially as Felipe had almost choked over the necessity to say Mitch and extend the same courtesy to both his guests . |
| 27 | I 'd quite like a cigarette , too , even though it 's still early and I 've barely got over the morning cough but McDunn seems to have forgotten his manners . |
| 28 | She had half fallen over the bonnet when the car stopped . |
| 29 | I , I do think they have rather gone over the top . |
| 30 | However , problems have already arisen over the definition of ‘ essential ’ as applied to the halons . |