Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She led him over to the Fashion desk where Felicity was sitting , a vision of crystalline beauty and sparkling efficiency . |
| 2 | A little later , Emily was looking through her accounts and came across a bill for French calf ; thoughtfully , she turned it over in her hands , Hari would need to buy the calf too and the usual practice was to pay for it at the end of the month . |
| 3 | She turned it over in bewilderment . |
| 4 | Every time the woman was marking off the numbers Shaney was turning the card over , you know , she turned it over in six cards . |
| 5 | She turned herself over in her bed , and snuggled down for an extra , self-indulgent and rare hour of sleep . |
| 6 | She handed them over to her husband and was terrified by his reaction . |
| 7 | She handed them over without any further argument . |
| 8 | Last year she had a lovely crop from her plot , which measures about 2ft by 3ft ; this year she dug it over in plenty of time for May 4 , the day on which she sows on the basis of an old saying : ‘ the 4th of May is kidney bean day ’ . |
| 9 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 10 | She followed him over towards one of the big sofas , careful as she sat to leave as much of a gap between them as possible . |
| 11 | When Muriel did n't get the job she 'd hoped for she talked it over with her present boss . |
| 12 | Yes she wore them over in Ponty did n't you ? |
| 13 | Pauline , who always had back problems , felt so sorry for the little mare that she took her over from Jackie . |
| 14 | She got , and hated , a job in a fruit pulpers in Covent Garden , and would drop in at lunchtimes , and one day , in the absence of anyone else competent to run the switchboard , she took it over for an hour . |
| 15 | He emptied his flagon and after a minute 's hesitation she took it over to the table to refill it . |
| 16 | There was some kind of engraving on the medallion , and she took it over to the window for a closer look . |
| 17 | Comfort shook it and murmured something formally polite , but she looked him over in rather obvious disdain , tilting back her small head to see his face . |
| 18 | She looked me over with an expression that matched her tone . |
| 19 | Shrugging off the severely cut navy blue linen jacket of her new designer suit , she tossed it over on top of her briefcase , before sinking down on to a sofa and sighing with relief as she slipped off her high-heeled blue court shoes . |
| 20 | She could feel the great flight of the dragon and sensed that she was high in air and travelling fast towards the sunset ; she could feel the great muscles of the dragon 's wings send ripplings down the stomach walls and she gave herself over to death . |
| 21 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 22 | She was n't good at being silly , but she gave herself over to the moment . |
| 23 | She smoothed it over with her hand . |
| 24 | She wanted it over with . |
| 25 | But I was awoken from my daydreaming by her calling me over to the large chest which stood beneath the window . |
| 26 | I did n't want her to give herself over to the view of life that underlay all this , the philosophy that pinned her to the shadow-corners of the world . |