Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am puzzling over the dot matrix display board that 's trying to tell me what trains are coming my way . |
| 2 | Now I have said that , it 's not government policy , perhaps I 'm stretching over the bounds of saying it , but er those these ideas are around . |
| 3 | We were nearly on the beach and I was looking over the side of the ship . |
| 4 | I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today . |
| 5 | ‘ I was hit over the head . ’ |
| 6 | I was born over the road . |
| 7 | I can usually pick up a ball with one hand , but as I was laying over the ball , I had to use both hands to pick it up , and already a Cardiff forward was rushing down on me . |
| 8 | One Christmas I was flying over the city of Boston in America it night and I saw the Christmas lights like networks of jewellery flickering through the freezing air ; and hardly ever in my life had I seen anything more dazzling or beautiful . |
| 9 | ‘ Then I was contacted over the phone by a company in Rufford who agreed to sell the car for £50 . |
| 10 | And while I was leaning over the side , Sogono tapped me on the shoulder and said , ‘ How many soldier you kill , Chinaman ? |
| 11 | I was getting over the feeling of rejection instilled into me at St Aubyn 's , which by making me aggressive had deprived me of so much that Eton had to offer . |
| 12 | Eagerly I was bending over the vacuum cleaner . |
| 13 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |
| 14 | I 'm not an expert fighter and I did n't know I was going over the top . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , but how many of these wonderfully high-paid jobs have you been offered over the past eighteen months ? ’ |
| 16 | And he warned his opponents : ‘ If you are going over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game . |
| 17 | It is quite acceptable to ask to sample before you buy , although this is only possible if you are purchasing over the counter . |
| 18 | So if you are foaming over the price of a pint , shop around for the special offers . |
| 19 | It 's funny but life seems infinitely sweeter ( you 're going over the top now ) ; anyway I thrive on challenges and this is the ultimate one . |
| 20 | Bear that in mind when you 're going over the staff with a fine-tooth comb . ’ |
| 21 | " You and Lorne , you 're fighting over the girl . |
| 22 | For me , it depends on what you 're saying over the noise . |
| 23 | There 's something to have a bash at while you 're relaxing over the Christmas hols ! |
| 24 | Whatever you 're doing over the weekend of 28th/29th November , forget it , your time could be better spent … |
| 25 | Now you were standing over the road for five minutes unfortunately , but I hope during that time some of you used your eyes . |
| 26 | A divorced woman can only use her former husband 's contribution record to establish her right to the basic pension and only provided she contributes in her own right as soon as the marriage ends and she does not remarry ( unless she is divorced over the age of 60 ) . |
| 27 | P.C. Clifford , the driver of the car , got her name and address and a statement from her , though it does n't amount to anything more than that she was looking over the bridge and saw the body . |
| 28 | She was hanging over the wrought-iron balcony above the gardens , pointing to the pink and white marquees flapping gently in the breeze like grounded hot-air balloons . |
| 29 | She was slumped over the steering wheel of her car . |
| 30 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |