Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] over his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered what on earth John would think if he saw all this ; his friends in church , many for the first time in years , strangers saying prayers for him , me weeping over his photograph . |
| 2 | I peered over his shoulder at the spidery script . |
| 3 | I looked over his shoulder . |
| 4 | I looked over his shoulder and saw Fra Angelico 's famous ‘ Annunciation ’ ; and at once knew why the colonnade outside had seemed so familiar . |
| 5 | I leaned over his shoulder . |
| 6 | ‘ Julius — ’ she began , but she choked over his name . |
| 7 | The man watched her face mirror her emotions , as she turned over his proposal in her mind . |
| 8 | But minimal is not an adjective that comes easily to mind when you pour over his sensuously-worked surfaces and layers of tonally-related hues . |
| 9 | Unbuttoning her coat , and unwinding her scarf , she reads over his shoulder : ‘ Day of Action … protest against cuts … erosion of salaries … pickets will be mounted at every entrance to the University … volunteers should give their names to Departmental representatives … other members are asked to stay away from the campus on the Day of Action . ’ |
| 10 | The woman stared at him for a few moments as she mulled over his offer . |
| 11 | She crouched over his face , her cunt lips inches from his mouth . |
| 12 | As we pored over his crippled handwriting I felt a steady heat coming from his body like an aura which slowly enveloped me and seemed to penetrate the very marrow of my bones . |
| 13 | We look over his shoulder when he writes his dispatches ; we listen in on his conversation with other statesmen ; we read and anticipate his very thoughts . |
| 14 | ‘ The bosses at Barnsley know what John can do and I trust them to watch over his progress . |
| 15 | It was part of the feud they fought over his refusal to convert . |
| 16 | A buzz of wordless terror went up from the men around him as they craned over his shoulder to look . |
| 17 | A one-night stand with a waitress , played by Goldie Hawn , leads to her taking over his empty home . |
| 18 | He did not seem to hear , so I left him bending over his leg and filing away at his iron chain like a madman . |
| 19 | Foxe describes how ‘ Master Tyndale , a man of no great stature ’ , was courteously persuaded to walk ahead , whilst the tall and comely Philips behind him pointed over his head ‘ so that the officers who sat at the door might see that it was he whom they should take ; as the officers that took Master Tyndale afterwards told Poyntz , they pitied to see his simplicity when they took him . ’ |
| 20 | She and her detective rushed over to the photographer and she pleaded with him to hand over his film , and tell nothing of what he had seen . |
| 21 | The emperor pronounced that a trust was due on these words as if , by prohibiting her from making a will , he had requested that she should make her brother heir : the wording is to be treated as if he had asked her to make over his estate . |
| 22 | He made over his share in Leopold 's estate to Nannerl in return for 1,000 gulden of ready cash , which he desperately needed . |
| 23 | It was heavy , being covered by a thick layer of turf , and as soon as he could he checked over his shoulder to satisfy himself the area was entirely clear , before climbing stiffly all the way out and dropping the trapdoor shut again . |
| 24 | There was a narrow , black skirt with a slit in it hanging over his chair . |
| 25 | In the matter of its lawsuit against Berkeley Software Design Inc for copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets , Unix System Laboratories Inc has decided to file a petition for reconsideration with Judge Dickinson Debevoise before it goes over his head to the Circuit Court of Appeals . |
| 26 | In the matter of its lawsuit against Berkeley Software Design Inc for copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets , Unix System Labs has decided to file a petition for reconsideration with Judge Dickinson Debevoise before it goes over his head to the Circuit Court of Appeals ( UX No 427 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Why ? ’ he asked over his shoulder . |
| 28 | Sweating , he took off his anorak and carried it slung over his shoulder . |
| 29 | ‘ Swayne 's place ; he lives over his shop . |
| 30 | It lingers over his paraphrases of ‘ Dejeuner sur l'herbe ’ , ‘ Women of Algiers ’ , ‘ Las Meninas ’ , Poussin 's and David 's ‘ Rape of the Sabines ’ painted in the Fifties and Sixties , and culminates with his endless variations on the female nude from the years before his death in 1973 . |