Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , although winning a famous victory over ( Sir ) Winston Churchill to become Labour MP for Dundee in November 1922 , he was passed over for the foreign secretaryship of the first Labour government fourteen months later . |
| 2 | Although Clinton 's campaign chairman , Mickey Kantor , was among the transition team , he was passed over for the leadership after negative press reports and reservations from within the Clinton camp concerning his style and his role as a prominent lobbyist . |
| 3 | Like many of his contemporaries he was bowled over by the charismatic personality of Eleutherios Venizelos , the Greek politician . |
| 4 | He was handed over to the terribly liberal ( sorry , I think that should be liberally terrible ) dictator by Mr David Steel , hard-line leader of a British political grouping engaged in the notorious Lib-Lab pact , at a time when Ceausescu was still wildly popular . |
| 5 | Refused by all , he doggedly returned to Scotland and carried on guerilla warfare until , captured by further treachery , he was handed over to the English by the sheriff of Dumbarton . |
| 6 | He was handed over to the British army and sent back to England . |
| 7 | He was quickly driven to Damascus where he was handed over to the US chargé d'affaires , John Craig . |
| 8 | He 's alright , he was rolling over on the floor yesterday with me was n't he ? |