Example sentences of "he [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shiona eyed him challengingly over the bonnet of the car . |
| 2 | He 'd come his whack and there was this trail of spunk behind him all over the floor . |
| 3 | I said I 'd been chasing him all over the world . |
| 4 | ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States . |
| 5 | ‘ His business takes him all over the world . ’ |
| 6 | He wanted to hit him all over the face with his fists , to smash away his stupid smile , to stop him talking . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd have heard him all over the shop , ’ he said , ‘ and he came off the phone complaining that he 'd just lost 40,000 . |
| 8 | Flashback F M rewinds to December nineteen eighty three , from three meet former radio four Today presenter John Timpson with another of his wacky books which takes him all over the country looking at the unusual including some of the things you never knew existed in North Yorkshire . |
| 9 | One time , somebody went looking for him all over the place . |
| 10 | He had grabbed hold of Cliff and had him halfway over the ship 's side and would have dumped him into the dock had he not been restrained by a couple of his workmates . |
| 11 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 12 | His weakness for girls from an escort agency run by an old friend of Jack 's had cost him dear over the years . |
| 13 | He seized him by the waist and threw him bodily over the balustrade . |
| 14 | I 've worked with him now over the course of four years , I know him backwards . |
| 15 | Naturally he wanted a top man to carry his bag , a man who knew St Andrews like the back of his hand — someone young and capable of clubbing him perfectly over the home of golf 's fickle links , no matter what the weather . |
| 16 | A good-length ball was deposited over long-on into the George Headley Stand and in van Zyl 's next over , Simmons flat-batted him straight for four , smashed him imperiously over the extra-cover boundary for six and then drove another four through extra cover . |
| 17 | He looked up into her wide blue eyes which were scrutinising him intently over the mug of tea which she was holding with two hands . |
| 18 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |
| 19 | In her panic , and to make sure he stayed unconscious , she hit him twice over the head with the base of the standard lamp . |
| 20 | He is conscious of Marjorie 's watery blue eyes scanning him speculatively over the rim of her teacup , inviting further discussion of Sandra , but he ca n't face it , not this morning , not with a day 's work ahead of him . |