Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew that they were n't students and I began to resist but one of them hit me over the head with a gun . |
| 2 | George , at one stage , tried to get up , but one of them hit him over the head with his rifle . |
| 3 | They battered him over the head and threatened him with a shotgun . |
| 4 | They helped me over the next road , me nearly tripping as I crossed the far kerb . |
| 5 | ‘ There was no Albert Bridge then , ’ recalled Ben Bellaser , ‘ to span the river and ride over the ancient town with its oppressive grandeur , and the moon was rising and lighting up the shore and houses as they rose one over the other in terrace fashion against the dark blue starry sky ’ . |
| 6 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 7 | Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in . |
| 8 | Yeah , the only reason most people choose a Friday is because they get you over the weekend |
| 9 | They get you over the weekend yeah , so erm , we 'll just have to see what happens and have , just have the contracts out . |
| 10 | A Hamitic people , they established themselves over a great part of Shoa and even pushed northwards along the escarpment for some hundred and fifty miles beyond Dessie . |
| 11 | Striking northwards up the coast from near Khafji , accompanied also by some Qatari armour , they took it over the period 26–27 February . |
| 12 | Both babies would smile stickily when they saw me over the edge of the cot , which was gratifying in a way , but I knew it was only because they were programmed that way , like public relations men . |
| 13 | He could remember them discussing it over the ironing and himself on the floor playing with his soldiers behind the sofa and keeping very quiet about it because it was way past his bedtime . |