Example sentences of "over the [noun] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic , but his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses that had obviously known better days . |
| 2 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic . |
| 3 | They were reminiscing over the times they had worked together , and this she found irritating . |
| 4 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 5 | The inference that he did so by selling is supported by the incidental evidence of miracle-stories : one from St-Benoît-sur-Loire , for instance , recorded in the 870s , tells of two " comrades " ( compares ) at the monastery 's weekly market , who quarrelled over the 12d. they had made on their joint transactions ; another story of similar date from St-Hubert in the Ardennes has a peasant ( rusticus ) stating quite explicitly that he has come to an annual fair " to acquire the wherewithal to pay what I owe to my lord " . |
| 6 | Now the farmer and his wife had remained in the filed , laughing over the trick they had played on the tiger . |
| 7 | Home again , and alone , he rhapsodised over the scene he had witnessed . |
| 8 | Then , when the system tightened up and interest rates rose , the debtor nations wound up paying back vast sums over the odds they had borrowed at . |
| 9 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 10 | He 'll soon get over the damage you 've done to his ego ! ’ |
| 11 | ( He achieved a great feat of maritime engineering by building ships on the Atlantic shore , transporting them bodily over the hills he had explored and sailing them off into the Pacific . ) |
| 12 | But over the year we 've drifted apart they had a family , we had a family |
| 13 | So that , when cornered , he admitted that over the year he had become affected by simple , inexplicable bouts of fear . |
| 14 | As you climb , the view back over the way you 've come opens up and the wild moorland and rolling downlands stretch into the distance . |
| 15 | Over the aeons they have become so thoroughly integrated into the cooperative unit that became the eukaryotic cell , that it has become almost impossible to detect the fact , if indeed it is a fact , that they were once separate bacteria . |
| 16 | We regret the part we 'ave left , rather than rejoice over the part we 'ave preferred ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I get on better on my own , ’ he said to his mother , looking over the leaflets he 'd picked up . |
| 18 | But Leopold soon found another source of grievance — the fact that Wolfgang had lied to him over the money he had earned . |
| 19 | That she writes boldly to Artemisia concerning her frustration , and more timorously to Lucinda , suggests partly a lingering ambivalence over the choices she has made , and , more proximately , a nervousness as she approached the literary world . |
| 20 | Red Deer ( Cervus elaphus ) are really forest animals , but over the centuries we have destroyed Scotland 's natural woodlands and driven the deer to live in the harsh environments of the higher , exposed hills . |
| 21 | To return to the source of good , evil and neutral ; whatever , in the conflicts referred to , may have been the intentions or hopes of the protagonists , the fact remains that over the centuries they have produced a constant flow of individual human decisions which can be examined and specified as either good , evil or neutral . |
| 22 | The funds do not merely guarantee you will get the full rise in the index over the period you have chosen ; they also ensure you get the highest bid price that the fund achieves at any point while the investment is running . |
| 23 | The woman looked at them for a moment over the book she had pulled from the shelf . |
| 24 | Since construction has already been covered in Section 2 , this section is limited largely to ‘ internal ’ interpretation and the cases regularly cited as instances in which the testator 's intention triumphed over the words he had used . |
| 25 | There was a long pause while she cleared the bed of her things , and she was aware of his eyes on her every movement as he checked over the items she 'd packed for any signs of decadence . |
| 26 | He watched in anxious silence as I ran a hand over the repairs he had begun on Masquerade . |
| 27 | Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about . |
| 28 | And er over the years we 've built up a reputation I know is is a genuine one say that because I know that you 're going to appreciate this course and I use the term very very particularly you will enjoy it . |
| 29 | Over the years we 've enjoyed annual family holidays without feeling the pinch and we 've built up good relationships with our neighbours and the surrounding community . |
| 30 | yeah and it 's a public relations exercise , and we 've been lumbered with it you know over the years we 've tried to push crime prevention and people come in and they do take notes of various things you know there 's obviously some people who come in and talk about crime prevention which we can answer fully , there are other enquiries about everything from bloody |