Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |
| 2 | I had then , over those days of struggling with the staff plan , expended a significant amount of thought to ensuring that Mrs Clements and the girls , once they had got over their aversion to adopting these more ‘ eclectic ’ roles , would find the division of duties stimulating and unburdensome . |
| 3 | Once they had got over the first shock , neither Bridget nor Tracey seemed able to take her story entirely seriously . |
| 4 | That 's if the lawyers left her anything after they 'd picked over the bones . |
| 5 | Osborne used a mallet to smash the skull of his sleeping brother , Dean , after they had rowed over girlfriends Melissa Gunn and Joanne Morse . |
| 6 | He appeared to speak on behalf of others in his platoon , young men who had just left boyhood behind , as they crouched hunched over cleaning rags and oil , stripping down their SA-80 rifles and machine guns in the cramped confines of their bunk room . |