Example sentences of "have gone over the " in BNC.

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1 Select a strong healthy stem that has borne a good bloom , or is still carrying one that has gone over the top , and look at the stem lower down — to see if you can find nice plump axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils — these are latent growth buds , and they are going to become your new roses !
2 They caught me at it , luckily , before I 'd gone over the edge .
3 He 'd gone over the car with a cloth , wiping fingerprints from the steering wheel and the door handles , then he 'd tossed that into the Lancia .
4 ‘ Bet she wishes it was the dashing Dieter who 'd gone over the cliff ! ’ she said cheerfully .
5 The reason he 'd gone over the wall was simple .
6 Su'a said he thought the ball would otherwise have gone over the sticks .
7 They could have gone over the top you know , I think , I 'm sure they could , I 'm certain they could .
8 Emphasising the futility of filling up a large sheet of cartridge paper the size of a drawing board with the object you are drawing , irrespective of its proximity , Sickert insisted on the importance of never sketching the figure and the background separately , and once having gone over the original drawing faintly in outline , to put in the shadows with the side of the point of the pencil .
9 Notwithstanding these excesses of zeal , the Evangelical Alliance booklet does not appear to have gone over the top .
10 They 've gone over the excavations and into the meadow — ‘
11 But I am determined to fight back , and where I think that they 've gone over the top , I 'll take them to court .
12 and see how we 've gone over the year .
13 So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself .
14 The last they heard was that he had gone over the wall for two years .
15 When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard .
16 I had called round at the house early in the week to check on how things had gone over the weekend .
17 But although we found little , report had magnified our findings in no ordinary degree and we afterwards learnt that it had gone over the country around that we had dug up a great treasure of gold .
18 some of us had gone over the border you know .
19 I know cos we were breaking bits off it cos it had gone over the edge .
20 A number of the large employers have gone over the last ten or fifteen years but there are still very large industrial complexes .
21 ‘ We have gone over the dangers from dead-ball situations repeatedly in training , ’ he stormed .
22 She 's gone over the top .
23 Favourite Silver Wizard ran too freely and Willie Carson said : ‘ He 's gone over the top . ’
24 She 's gone over the edge , Newman thought .
25 I wish they would move that because there 's nothing I can do now it 's gone over the fence .
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