Example sentences of "over [pers pn] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If not , let's hope we can complete the double over them and get the game postponed for the second time .
2 are happy with the numbers standing on the Kop for a big derby game , why should UEFA ride roughshod over them and knock an astonishing 6,000 off the gate for what is possibly Liverpool 's most important match of the season .
3 The wind passed over them and rustled the bare branches of the trees and they still stood .
4 But grammarians intent on prescribing rules of correct usage preferred he over they and stigmatised the latter as incorrect .
5 They flew low over it and dropped a can asking for directions to Koepang .
6 When assessing the value of a site it is essential to walk over it and get a feel for the market potential .
7 Allen placed the steel bow between the stone uprights of the parapet , dropped the hook over it and lowered the rope to the ground .
8 The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 .
9 Across the Pennines , in Derbyshire , the immense walled kitchen garden at Calke Abbey , where visitors to Calke could once sit in the now-ruined orangery that presides over it and admire the order and industry , is just an area of pasture .
10 He draped inflamable material over it and calibrated the switch to come on later in the day .
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