Example sentences of "[verb] him over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the orderly beats him over the head , pumps a couple of .38 's into Mahoney with a silenced gun , turns round and walks out . |
| 2 | After starting the day a stroke behind Stewart , the USPGA champion , Langer overhauled him over the seventh , eighth and ninth holes . |
| 3 | She paused and regarded him over the top of her glass . |
| 4 | Then , as he simply smiled , she regarded him over the top of it . |
| 5 | At one point they fell out and Schine chased Cohn through a hotel lobby swatting him over the head with a rolled-up magazine , to the delight of the large Press corps , who wrote stories headlined after the dialogue of the famous duo , ‘ Positively , Mr Cohn ! ’ and ‘ Absolutely , Mr Schine ! ’ |
| 6 | Worriedly judging her moment , and hoping fervently that the other two heard nothing , she slipped out behind the third man , and cracked him over the head with the cutters . |
| 7 | The ex-Scots Guardsman claims Thai police framed him over the death of fiancee Pranon Sauychaisri , 30 , who fell from the balcony of their flat . |
| 8 | ‘ Go now , ’ the voice commanded him over the earpiece . |
| 9 | Pat was a big man and grabbed Sean and bundled him over the couch and into the laps of Mrs Kelly and Mrs Quinn who screamed blue murder . |
| 10 | After a while they kidnap and murder a young boy for kicks , bashing him over the head with a blunt instrument . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal held that his dismissal was fair and that it was not vitiated by a failure to consult him over the reorganisation . |
| 12 | And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it . |
| 13 | You tell me how any of us could have chucked him over the balustrade even if the whole lot of us got together to do it . |
| 14 | ‘ If someone broke into your house and you caught him , you 'd beat him over the head , would n't you ? ’ |
| 15 | But Faldo has reserved his most barbed comments for Alliss and the press , even though the publicity afforded him over the last 16 years has brought a £2 million home and bulging bank account worth more than £10m . |
| 16 | He said here are and tapping him over the nose |
| 17 | Merrill took a sip of her martini , eyeing him over the rim of her glass . |
| 18 | The boys stood this for as long as was decent , and then , after a particularly heavy blow to the head , the brothers grabbed the Bosnian refugee by both feet and up-ended him over the sand . |
| 19 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 20 | But for the generosity Dysart had shown him over the years , he might even have approved of his actions . |
| 21 | They manhandled Mr Reagan to the side of the stage and pounced on his attacker , forcing him over the podium to check him for any possible weapons before dragging him away . |
| 22 | When the Mirror confronted him over the damning documents , he said : ‘ Somebody could easily falsify records . ’ |
| 23 | The new interest gave him the encouragement of success , to help him over the worst of his terrible despairs . |
| 24 | This warmth was sufficient to help him over the threshold of marriage . |
| 25 | Another added a series of syllables which sounded like yumyumyum to help him over the blocks . |
| 26 | So I said , ‘ How nice , thank you , ’ and handed him over the cheque . |
| 27 | Despite being filled with an overwhelming love and compassion for her husband , who was single-handedly fighting off one of the world 's largest corporations , she 'd also been swept by a strong desire to bash him over the head with his own fax machine ! |
| 28 | Wood could still play if there is any danger of a recurrence of Simon Brown 's problems with cramp , which troubled him over the weekend , while Simon Hughes is also due for a rest . |
| 29 | ‘ I heard him over the intercom once — we were on an exercise — up in the clouds — saying , ‘ sorry , Oggy , forgot my ruler ! ’ |
| 30 | On either side of the central aisle , heads nodded at the buildings and streets around them as a now livelier Ashenden continued , himself ( like the site , it appeared ) splendidly restored from whatever malaise had affected him over the previous two days , a malaise which had been noted and commented upon by several others of the group besides Mrs Shirley Brown — the latter sitting comfortably now in her usual seat , the effects of the sting having cleared up fairly quickly under the twin application of Mrs Roscoe 's unguents . |