Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |
| 2 | That 's if the lawyers left her anything after they 'd picked over the bones . |
| 3 | Within seconds , I 'd rolled over the parapet , scrambled along the lead gutter to the hatch , drawn the bolt and entered — all without giving my head time to jam the works . |
| 4 | The wearing of boxer shorts was just one of the many American ways he 'd adopted over the years . |
| 5 | In desperation your mother gave me some home movies they 'd made over the years , and I watched a chubby five-year-old with a cheeky grin and eyes like pansies . |
| 6 | He had agreed to the live radio interview readily enough , probably expecting it to run the course of a dozen or so others he 'd done over the past couple of years . |
| 7 | All the careful protections she 'd built over the years ? |
| 8 | When Ronald Summerfield died three years ago his house and shop were found to be piled high with antiques he 'd collected over the years . |
| 9 | ‘ And when did you start to love me then , after you 'd got over the shock of my bikini , that is ? ’ |
| 10 | Mm and what would happen if it came to the end of the quarter and you had so much money accumulated to pay on your Co book , for stuff that you 'd got over the quarter , and you just could n't pay it ? |
| 11 | ‘ We had a good laugh about it once she 'd got over the shock . |
| 12 | ‘ Peter , ’ said Sarella when she 'd got over the shock of what he 'd just said , ‘ surely you do n't imagine we can go on with this charade any longer ? ’ |
| 13 | The idea of a sequel seemed odd , ‘ Harvest ’ was an LP he 'd badmouthed over the years , and it was hardly his style to go into the Mike Oldfield school of repackaging old product . |
| 14 | He 'd crossed over the rocks . |
| 15 | He sat on a kitchen chair while she peeled back the plaster he 'd stuck over the wound . |
| 16 | Throw a shovelful of tarmac into the canal and they went to pieces , it had n't been his fault he 'd tripped over the cat . |
| 17 | The luminaries he 'd entertained over the decades — the defecting dancers and minor spies , the addicted debutantes , the rock stars with Messianic leanings and the bishops who made idols of barrow-boys — they 'd all had their moments of glory , then fallen . |
| 18 | She was more bothered than ever , for Timothy 's eyes had a dreamy look which she 'd never seen in them before , and he 'd lingered over the girl 's name whenever he had used it . |
| 19 | you 'd swopped over the record would n't help , is that right ? |
| 20 | They caught me at it , luckily , before I 'd gone over the edge . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Bet she wishes it was the dashing Dieter who 'd gone over the cliff ! ’ she said cheerfully . |
| 23 | The reason he 'd gone over the wall was simple . |
| 24 | The haze of his first cigarette clouded the room briefly and in the streak of light from the curtains he saw the heaped clothes and the mark on the hotel carpet where he 'd knocked over the glass of water . |
| 25 | Despite her fiery auburn curls , she very rarely lost her temper — largely because she 'd learnt over the years to put a tight lid on seething emotions in public , keeping explosions solely for when she was by herself . |