Example sentences of "he [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chaplin invited Mayer to land one on him , and L B promptly obliged by punching Chaplin in the face , sending him sprawling over a potted plant . |
| 2 | His light-hearted and friendly manner enabled him to put over a very strong sales pitch without a hint of strain . |
| 3 | Bert Midgeley watched him disappear over the hill towards Wanswell and wished for the millionth time that Simon was still with him . |
| 4 | He had little doubt that if anything went wrong Buckmaster would let him drop over the cliff . |
| 5 | I remember watching the television report showing him standing over a map in the local Party headquarters , sweeping his hand across it presumably indicating which areas were to disappear from the face of the earth . |
| 6 | The prince had asked him to take over a small present ; Simon had stuck it in a pocket and thought no more about it , only when he saw Constanza he decided to deliver it in person . |
| 7 | What his mate , who has never bothered much with politics , discovers about our police on the one hand and lawyers on the other , forces him to take over the activist role in this tough political thriller . |
| 8 | The Regent desired him , as proposer of the scheme , and as having already served with the Earl of Dunbar , to accompany Sir Simon Fraser down to the Earl 's camp near Berwick , there to help that man inform Dunbar of the decisions made and to assist in convincing him to take over the keepership of Berwick Castle . |
| 9 | Great-Uncle Isaac at Dummah Hill , where Father was living and working , was kin to the brothers so an arrangement was made for him to take over the land . |
| 10 | And that , he hopes , will enable him to take over the top ten ratings the Yorkshireman holds with two of the four recognised world governing bodies the WBO and WBC . |
| 11 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what people must think to hear him haggling over a few dollars . |
| 12 | I wondered , watching him brood over the row of charts . |
| 13 | French law has forced him to hand over the helms of Adidas and Bernard Tapie Finance , but he said : ‘ My new post is not incompatible with the presidency of Marseille . |
| 14 | Could he use his influence with the Secretary of State for Defence to persuade him to hand over the Ministry of Defence buildings so that the money that the Scottish Office has allocated is not used to pay for them ? |
| 15 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 16 | As he approached the coastline he passed over a merchant ship . |
| 17 | He passed over a camo poncho , which I told Kaptan to put on , after I removed his blood-stained shirt . |
| 18 | He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch . |
| 19 | He caught over a stone of roach , which was about 200 per cent more than any normal angler would have managed . |
| 20 | He peered over a rampart of cushions . |
| 21 | Every golfer in the world experiences that awful feeling of helplessness when he stands over a putt and knows that he has not the slightest chance of getting the ball near the hole , let alone into it . |
| 22 | ‘ Haw — ha — ha — ’ he gasped , putting one hand on another pump to steady himself as he bent over a little and looked at his feet , the other hand on a knee , his chest heaving . |
| 23 | His output is prodigious and it springs from the unbending control he exercises over every aspect of his life . |
| 24 | Although he was forbidden to get out of bed he sneaked over every evening and peeped out , unable to resist looking . |
| 25 | And then he came over a rise and saw the lake below . |
| 26 | In 1684 he turned over the retail side of his business to Francis Saunders and his partner Joseph Knight . |
| 27 | He turned over the page . |
| 28 | He turned over the facts again and again in his mind until their monotonous repetition affected him like a dull , nagging pain . |
| 29 | He handed over a credit card to pay his bill . |
| 30 | He handed over a ring and an amulet that I recognised . |