Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wolski had already read the accounts of him being seen over the Chiltern Hills north-west of London soon after leaving the Regent 's Park area and later a certain sighting by a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in East Anglia who saw him feeding off sheep carrion on chalk downland . |
| 2 | But he is fuming over the interference in his work of the chief executive , Lionello Celon . |
| 3 | I must just say to yo , you 're dying to ask , like what he 's doing over the corner ? |
| 4 | And he 's paying over the odds for this house , she said but of course he 's paying for the area , he 's moving up to Walford ! |
| 5 | He 's on active service ; he smells powder ; he 's going over the top for the baby . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's deteriorated over the year — sometimes he does n't recognise me now ; and I have to fight him to get him to do anything . |
| 7 | When Dorothy came home from town , however , he was digging over the vegetable patch , despite its half-frozen state and the gently falling snow . |
| 8 | As he headed for St Margaret 's Grove he was bundled over the fence into the field . |
| 9 | He was stooping over the sack . |
| 10 | He was hit over the head and broke an ankle but disarmed the 6ft raider and sent him packing . |
| 11 | Hurley handed him a Turkish passport with a West German visa and he was escorted over the green line into Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus . |
| 12 | Sandy McGlashan had arrived late , his hair plastered down with sweat ; he was spluttering over the tale , to whoever would listen , of how he had ‘ come up flemyng and Menzies of Bolfracks , in the street at Aberfeldy , they had their heads together and were plotting something wicked , no doubt about it , if only he could have heard what they were saying ’ . |
| 13 | On a previous occasion , when he was flying over the stricken HMS SHEFFIELD , nine-tenths of his negatives had been removed . |
| 14 | He was bent over the prow of a little wooden sailboat — he was obviously having a rest from speedboat practice today — and was busily tightening something with a big screwdriver . |
| 15 | Darren Sadler , 25 , from Cleveleys Lancs was killed when he was swept over the sea wall in Blackpool . |
| 16 | He was being sick right and he was hanging over the banisters like this these flats and I could n't stop laughing . |
| 17 | An hour and a half later , I arrived at the University , put down the ramp expecting to find Arthur dead , and there he was hanging over the partition , looking for the show … |
| 18 | He was hunched over the car . |
| 19 | The name Heryng is found often connected with Halling and another name we find is that of John Hostier , who in 1268 , was bailiff here , for in this year he was questioned over the Bishop 's land at Halling . |
| 20 | Sitting together on a settee as they faced hostile questioning , Bill Clinton seemed at first to be struggling as he was tackled over the Flowers affair . |
| 21 | He was getting over the ball , keeping his head down and just stroking it . |
| 22 | As the other four offered their own inimitable advice , the police hustled the Celtic defender downstairs and out into the streets where he was thrown over the bonnet of a police car . |
| 23 | He was sent home from hospital after a short period , since the doctors thought it more important that he should be there with his wife , and he shouted " hurrah ! hurrah ! hurrah ! " as he was carried over the threshold . |
| 24 | Back in the study Edward Crumwallis collapsed into the chair usually reserved for boys whom he was hauling over the coals . |
| 25 | He still felt strange , as if he was bending over the bodies of children , but one look at the dead faces calmed such scruples . |
| 26 | He was standing over the reeking individual now , peering close to get a look at the face . |
| 27 | He was peering over the crowd for Sandy every day . |
| 28 | He always swore that when he was going over the Baloch that 's the the road between Glen Ayloch and Kil and Glen Shee , he said i if you were at certain hour of the night he said as sure as anything there was a man on horseback pass you with this horse . |