Example sentences of "over the [noun] [pers pn] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic , but his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses that had obviously known better days . |
| 2 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic . |
| 3 | They were reminiscing over the times they had worked together , and this she found irritating . |
| 4 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 5 | The inference that he did so by selling is supported by the incidental evidence of miracle-stories : one from St-Benoît-sur-Loire , for instance , recorded in the 870s , tells of two " comrades " ( compares ) at the monastery 's weekly market , who quarrelled over the 12d. they had made on their joint transactions ; another story of similar date from St-Hubert in the Ardennes has a peasant ( rusticus ) stating quite explicitly that he has come to an annual fair " to acquire the wherewithal to pay what I owe to my lord " . |
| 6 | Now the farmer and his wife had remained in the filed , laughing over the trick they had played on the tiger . |
| 7 | Home again , and alone , he rhapsodised over the scene he had witnessed . |
| 8 | Then , when the system tightened up and interest rates rose , the debtor nations wound up paying back vast sums over the odds they had borrowed at . |
| 9 | ( He achieved a great feat of maritime engineering by building ships on the Atlantic shore , transporting them bodily over the hills he had explored and sailing them off into the Pacific . ) |
| 10 | So that , when cornered , he admitted that over the year he had become affected by simple , inexplicable bouts of fear . |
| 11 | But Leopold soon found another source of grievance — the fact that Wolfgang had lied to him over the money he had earned . |
| 12 | The woman looked at them for a moment over the book she had pulled from the shelf . |
| 13 | Since construction has already been covered in Section 2 , this section is limited largely to ‘ internal ’ interpretation and the cases regularly cited as instances in which the testator 's intention triumphed over the words he had used . |
| 14 | He watched in anxious silence as I ran a hand over the repairs he had begun on Masquerade . |
| 15 | Over the years we had become so attached to Renishaw Road that our new , smaller house in Thorne Road seemed cold and indifferent to our worries . |
| 16 | Over the years they had become friends of the family and had been granted privileges — one of which was limited entry to the Domain . |
| 17 | Over the years they had attended the same victuallers ' functions , and on every occasion Harcourt had kept very much to his own table . |
| 18 | Over the years they had worked well and closely together until the political situation in Russia underwent the first dramatic changes . |
| 19 | Over the years he had become as used to the rocking and swaying of a train as an experienced sailor is to the pitching and rolling of a ship . |
| 20 | Physical fear was somewhere in his emotional vocabulary but over the years he had mislaid its meaning . |
| 21 | Over the years he had forged links with the Foreign and Home Offices , the crucial departments of Military Intelligence and the Government 's secret services . |
| 22 | Over the years he had worked hard into the night , had attended every lecture and tutorial , had scarcely taken time to attend student functions such as debates , except that these gave him fresh ideas ; he never spoke at them . |
| 23 | Over the years he had acquired real skill in his hobby , and had exhibited some of his studies of Scottish scenery and wildlife ; his real passion was bird photography , and through the years he had amassed a remarkable collection of pictures . |
| 24 | Over the years she had become a stranger to us , her sisters tending to avoid her ; all but my mother , who still wrote to her at Christmas-time . |
| 25 | Over the years she had developed a discerning palate and acquired an encyclopaedic knowledge of the needs and habitat of vines , the locations of particular vineyards , the reliability of chateaux bottling and the suitability of a wine with a specific food . |
| 26 | Her mother had once remarked that it was her opinion that Harry had actually caused Nathan 's idiocy in a fit of temper soon after he was born , and through whispered gossip over the years she had guessed that Tristram had become the focus of conflict between his parents and that he had found it increasingly necessary to defend both Nathan and his mother against his father 's violent outbursts of temper . |
| 27 | She had loved him , almost obsessively , since the age of sixteen and , though he had never in any way encouraged her , over the years she had built all her dreams around him . |
| 28 | Over the years she had grown to love him in a familiar , comfortable sort of way , though of late a change in temperament had made him difficult . |
| 29 | Over the years she had learned to stay two steps ahead of him . |
| 30 | Over the years she had forced these thoughts from her mind , telling herself that her sons were the product of their father . |