Example sentences of "[vb pp] over it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A simple matt black sweater , with just a few tiny red glass beads or minute sequins scattered over it , would look lovely in movement and gorgeous to wear on Christmas Day . |
| 2 | The original may be physically damaged if a cup of coffee is spilt over it or the magnetic impulses on the disk representing the program may be destroyed or altered by exposure to a strong magnetic field . |
| 3 | There was no sign of it on the surface — the track was probably carried over it on sleepers , long embedded in the mud of years — and the entrance to the drain was completely hidden by long grass . |
| 4 | But er and then when television come her mother was sat over it all times and she used to tell me about going to pictures . |
| 5 | A red and black burnet moth landed on her hand , crawled over it and whirred away again into the grass . |
| 6 | ‘ But it was lost — walls were built over it , the paper had disintegrated . ’ |
| 7 | An eight-span steel-arched road bridge is to be built over it and a channel is being dug to divert the river while the work is underway . |
| 8 | Remember that any such feature is simply a vehicle for the plants to be grown over it , and in a few years the structure becomes incidental to the glory of the climber that smothers it . |
| 9 | You must have skidded over it one way and then it tipped back and put up this sort of tooth , like a ratchet , look . ’ |
| 10 | A covering of green arched over it , so thick that no rain came through . |
| 11 | Worse — much worse — three of the cows were standing against the gate , their horned heads thrust over it . |
| 12 | And then , early one morning , when the affair was still unsettled and he could see the Indian girl asleep on a sofa with one arm through the strap of her handbag and the sari drawn over it , a delayed flight from Jamaica arrived with twelve unaccompanied West Indian children on board . |
| 13 | If the courts did throw out a case that you 'd dealt with , you stood a chance of being sued over it . |
| 14 | For years souvenir-hunters had swarmed over it on summer Sundays ( and now also on Lubbock 's bank holidays ) , their hammers at the ready , and the owner , Antrobus , had Supplied an attendant to keep some order . |
| 15 | I once made the mistake you 're thinking of making and I 've never got over it . |
| 16 | ‘ I was ten times worse myself and got over it on my feet , ’ he said in casual dismissal , opening his raincoat and reaching inside for a cigarette . |
| 17 | All that was three years ago , and Jean had soon got over it , but now Tina was pregnant again and showing it , much to the amusement of Sandy and Stu . |
| 18 | I thought I 'd got over it but it seems to have come back . |
| 19 | A horrid brown one with pincers ran up my pyjama leg once and I 've never got over it . |
| 20 | You can call by later if you 've got over it — and not if you have n't ! ‘ |
| 21 | And I think it 's very important that people can come and talk to you and some representative 's of the board because there is unrest Tom and I 'm not prepared to stick my neck out and say in what quarter this lies but it can be got over it can be ironed out because running a theatre is to do with team spirit and that team spirit get 's conveyed to the public . |
| 22 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't want to think about that , I do n't want to look at the actual scene , I 've got over it , have n't I ? … the way she died … and all that went before . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought I 'd got over it completely . |
| 25 | Alain was greatly distressed by his death , but , ’ she hesitated for a moment before continuing , ‘ he would have got over it in time . |
| 26 | not , I 'm not now , I 've got over it . |
| 27 | ‘ I might have known — I might have known you had n't got over it . |
| 28 | If perhaps the Government were to fund victim support properly , Erm , Mr who was burgled and has never got over it might perhaps have had a visit and some counselling from a victim support worker , and that would be a very good thing . |
| 29 | ‘ I have not got over it , ’ admitted Dr Kumar last night . |
| 30 | They can suffer depression and grief and the feeling that they need someone to talk to even though the rest of the world feels they should have got over it . ’ |