Example sentences of "[vb past] be over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been over the pub at dinnertime . |
| 2 | And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes . |
| 3 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 4 | He 'd been over the limit , they 'd said , when he 'd crashed his BMW , and there could have been no sympathy whatsoever for him from the relatives of the woman killed in the other car . |
| 5 | What they 'd been over there to a stallion ? |
| 6 | They 'd been to the hospital , and they 'd been over the flat so I said to them well pop the blankets on and come over here then and have your supper and go back . |
| 7 | The one battle she lost was over the dog , Hector . |
| 8 | Instead of increasing grants during the year if prices rose or wage settlements reached were over the original target , the grant was fixed whatever happened . |
| 9 | The only place I hesitated was over the hallway . |
| 10 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 11 | Since enemy planes had been over the village , ‘ they have all lost their heads ’ . |
| 12 | The war had been over a long time . |
| 13 | Supper had been over a good hour and a half . |
| 14 | However , it became increasingly obvious during the next two years that the Ryder Report had been over optimistic about the market share of Leyland , and that even large injections of capital were insufficient to overcome the problems of poor labour relations , low productivity and entrenched attitudes . |
| 15 | ‘ I asked if you had been over there yet ? ’ |
| 16 | Anna 's mother was upset but nowhere near as upset as Maria Jakob had been over the death of Melusina . |
| 17 | The conciliation staff did a bit of homework , and found out how fond Swindown had been over the years for concealing motion and valve gear between the frames , which did not arouse enthusiasm amongst the more portly fitters , who had plenty of experience of these delights with the collective works of F.W. Webb and other C.M.E. 's designs . |
| 18 | She had been over all this a thousand times in the real world , the world she privately thought of as the world of things . |
| 19 | When the incident had been over several minutes , Robert appeared , flustered because Lionel was not yet ready . |
| 20 | It looked as though a grader had been over it just before the Amazonian rains had spilled over the Andes . |
| 21 | Most other wars prior had been over land or religion , this was over ideology . |
| 22 | It was claimed that this compromise represented significant progress since a May 13 EFTA-EC meeting in Brussels , when the main dispute had been over Norwegian and Icelandic reluctance to allow EC countries improved access to fish in their waters . |
| 23 | She had been right in her suspicion that David 's return had been something to do with a woman , but how wrong she had been over the reason . |
| 24 | For a long time now Luce had been a great admirer of Peter Sebastian 's work , and had been over the moon when she 'd been approached and offered this wonderful opportunity . |
| 25 | The one serious rift in the trip had been over Northern Ireland . |