Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [coord] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bond Street had been looked over and found wanting : the clothes not displayed as they should be , the new vendeuse lacking in charm . |
| 2 | Arfur spoke for everybody when he said , a wondering expression on his face : ‘ My Daddy just felled over and died ! ’ |
| 3 | The stool on which the boy had been sitting tipped over and hit the floor with a loud crash . |
| 4 | It had been written for an age when wind was still the motive power for most of the world 's shipping , so that , though technically out of date , it was invaluable for some of the work I was doing , particularly wire splicing , and if we were rolled over and had to jury-rig the ship it would be a life saver . |
| 5 | Eric had rolled over and had one hand under his head , the other over his eyes . |
| 6 | You must be like a piece of wood in the ocean : wood always floats to the surface , even though it is rolled over and held under . ’ |
| 7 | But the woman merely rolled over and sat up , easing the jacket from her , calm now , the fit — if that was what it had been — gone from her . |
| 8 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 9 | I congratulate the British farming industry on keeping its temper at times when it could easily have boiled over and reciprocated . |
| 10 | Apply a wood preservative that can be painted over or varnished afterwards . |
| 11 | and he 's he 's a bit younger than me and I 've gone come on then give us a kiss , like this , and he 's gone like that , I thought , just there like this and I 've leant over and went just there . |
| 12 | Over the ensuring months each item has been carefully checked over and repaired and painted as necessary . |
| 13 | It was one of those old-established inns tucked away into the side-streets of London that have somehow avoided being bought over and sanitized by the big chains , an ivy-covered twenty-room place with panelling and bay-windows and a fire blazing in the brick hearth of a reception area furnished in rugs over uneven boards . |
| 14 | When I was 12 , my great hero was Van Cliburn because he 'd just won the Tchaikovsky Competition , so he was invited over and played on my spinet . ’ |
| 15 | In the case of ‘ case-hardened ’ plywood the edges of the tubes are bent over and turned inwards by the hot plattens of the press which makes the plywood , so that the glue is prevented from penetrating and the joint has no strength ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 16 | Nor were they in Europe , where it took off in a big way as the cult movie of the moment , especially in countries where the dire American dialogue could be dubbed over or subtitled with more viable prose . |
| 17 | As I was putting the thermometer back in its case the calf suddenly toppled over and went into a frothing convulsion . |
| 18 | The curtain went up on the second act to reveal the face from this image lying on the ground where it was walked over and trampled on by the cast . |
| 19 | The whole thing was designed to smoke out double agents , to make sure you had n't gone over and started to work for the other side . |
| 20 | For reasons such as this it is important to ensure that the ‘ final edition ’ of the interview schedule has been adequately gone over and tried out before it is used in the full-scale field survey . |
| 21 | When we see her we are so afraid she might get run over or lost . ’ |
| 22 | 7 weeks ago , a fight with two men and a teenage girl in his home town of Banbury , allegedly ended with him being run over and dragged under a car for a quarter of a mile . |
| 23 | In a moment of horror , the shop assistant saw him , unforgettably : a little boy , wearing a badly-made blazer , who was going to be run over and killed . |
| 24 | A policewoman , Marie-Christine Baillet , was run over and killed , allegedly deliberately , in the early hours of June 9 by youths taking part in a " rodeo " ( using stolen cars to raid shops-windows ) . |
| 25 | Her is an illustrated story to be lingered over and added to with discussion by adult readers or those introducing children not only to the magic of adventure and solid drawing but to the underlying message that is a sober reminder of our obligations to the life and lives of the earth . |
| 26 | As soon as she hit poor little Sophie Emma immediately rushed over and kicked her grandmother hard in the shins ! |
| 27 | This can only mean that the University Press at Oxford kept the type of the second edition standing for over fifty years , or else had a large number of the second edition sheets left over and stored . |
| 28 | ‘ But I had some left over and put a sign in the window saying I did n't want any the next morning . |
| 29 | Probably because they had quite a lot left over and did n't |
| 30 | having closed their subsidiary in Wem , taken over and closed Simpkiss ( West Midlands ) and Davenports in Birmingham , have now decided to opt out of brewing altogether . |