Example sentences of "him [verb] over [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She felt him pass over her head a chain , heavy , cold .
2 I can imagine him so very clearly , from his photographs , his words , but I do not remember him myself — I should have , I was two years old — it 's strange that I can not remember seeing him bending over my cot , as they say he did , glass of brandy-and-soda in hand .
3 He did not seem to hear , so I left him bending over his leg and filing away at his iron chain like a madman .
4 Foxe describes how ‘ Master Tyndale , a man of no great stature ’ , was courteously persuaded to walk ahead , whilst the tall and comely Philips behind him pointed over his head ‘ so that the officers who sat at the door might see that it was he whom they should take ; as the officers that took Master Tyndale afterwards told Poyntz , they pitied to see his simplicity when they took him . ’
5 come up mum 's with the , and he snatched my handbag and he took the keys , he said that copper has got no rights to tell him to hand over them keys to me , I said what and he snatched them out of my handbag and I 've got no rights to my own house keys and I said what rights have I got to do , down his flat and collect half of my stuff back then ?
6 She and her detective rushed over to the photographer and she pleaded with him to hand over his film , and tell nothing of what he had seen .
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