Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 2 | There was more of an opportunity for me to stand out over here , particularly as there is no real heavyweight contender on the British scene since Bruno lost to Tyson . ’ |
| 3 | I waded out over the shallows until I came to them , and gathered the ones I could , looking up from my harvest as Esmerelda and kite struck out for the North Sea . |
| 4 | They took for granted all the hard work that my assistant , Billy McCullough and I put in over all those years . |
| 5 | I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast . |
| 6 | But I get a different feeling now when I look out over London . |
| 7 | For when I look back over his career , I can see with hindsight that he must have striven throughout his years somehow to become that butler of his story . |
| 8 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 9 | When I look back over my own experience , I find these questions embarrassing . |
| 10 | In this chapter I look back over responses to the challenges of curriculum planning and development in Africa in the ‘ sixties and ‘ seventies . |
| 11 | As I look back over visits to schools in recent years , the impressions , the differences , the experiences come crowding in . |
| 12 | I mean if I look back over my career with American corporates where I 've bought advertising it actually runs into millions of pounds . |
| 13 | I clambered back over the wall , crossed the orchard and , as usual , entered H.Q by the back door . |
| 14 | Indeed , as I was making my way back to this guest house this evening , I glanced back over my shoulder on a number of occasions and was met each time by a view of the sun setting behind that great spire . |
| 15 | I stared out over the crowd . |
| 16 | I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling . |
| 17 | There the colonnade was wider and the slender arches more open ; standing in the deep shade , I looked out over the tree-tops and the sea to the languishing ash-lilac mountains … a déjà vu feeling of having stood in the same place , before that particular proportion of the arches , that particular contrast of shade and burning landscape outside — I could n't say . |
| 18 | My clogs clattered on the steps and I looked back over my shoulder a couple of times to see if Frankie was following me , but he was n't . |
| 19 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 20 | I thought back over all the good times — all the laughs we had shared — and all the wonderful things they had done to try to build me up and keep me going . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And when I thought back over the conversation , I realised that it was an extremely unlikely thing to have happened . |
| 23 | ‘ Things are obviously becoming very busy and I went in over the weekend to do a bit of work . |
| 24 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
| 25 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 26 | Charlie 'd said he wanted to phone Lilian and when I come back over the road he was in a phone box . |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't have dared to be late , ’ she flung back over her shoulder , hoping he recognised the sarcasm in her tone . |
| 28 | She gazed out over the flat , dark countryside as the lights of Ghent were left behind . |
| 29 | ‘ First I want you to sit down over here and write down the names of all those who shared the stolen fruit with you . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Have you fallen out over it ? ’ |