Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | She notes that a more detailed look at the results above shows that boys are more likely to obtain three A level passes than girls , even though the gap between them has narrowed over the years . |
| 2 | They caught me at it , luckily , before I 'd gone over the edge . |
| 3 | Oh I , I 'd gone over several times , oh yes . |
| 4 | I 'd ridden over many jumps before , but never on a racehorse , never fast , never caring so much about the outcome . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I thought I 'd got over it but it seems to have come back . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I 'd got over it completely . |
| 8 | Well I thought I 'd got over it this week and Foxy and you were really nice to me and everyone was , you know ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The children were very much like the angels of resurrection which I had seen over tombs . |
| 11 | Despite my wealth of experience and my time as an instructor , I had become over confident in my own ability . |
| 12 | Movement from the centralities of ‘ real polising ’ in uniform , via the CID , into the marginal fringes of an extended period of drug squad work , had a profound influence on the absolute tenets of policing I had absorbed over the previous decade . |
| 13 | I had stared over the famous landscape : the three bridges , the brownstones of Brooklyn Heights . |
| 14 | As I looked at him sitting opposite me on the floor of the trench , I was fascinated by his resemblance to the other Commandos I had met over the past five days . |
| 15 | And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato . |
| 16 | I had got over my nerves by then ( was even thinking Travels With My Angst might not be the most suitable title for my book ) and was able to take a more even view of the handsome tour guide who had confessed to me , ‘ This has been a good trip for me . |
| 17 | I had got over a particularly traumatic childhood and adolescence and looked set fair for a modicum of stability as an adult . |
| 18 | I had agonised over its content , discussing it with Caroline , my wife , who knew the reservations I had over the job I was doing . |
| 19 | I had boils and chilblains all over my hands , had had two days food poisoning ( when I had vomited over the Sergeant-Major 's jeep ) , and was tired all the time . |
| 20 | Crosland was replaced as Environment Secretary by Peter Shore , a much less exuberant and extrovert character , but a solid , steady man whom I had known over the years and had first met when he was the Secretary of an ad hoc committee formed by the Labour Party — with a few outside ‘ experts ’ such as Dennis Lloyd and myself — to produce a rental policy . |
| 21 | I had sorrowed over the loss of the Hood , on which my father 's brother had been ‘ sparks , ’ and mourned for the Barham and the Ark Royal . |
| 22 | Compare : ‘ I 'm sorry I 've run over your dog . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've gone over my budget this month , what with buying Christmas presents and a new bathing-suit . ’ |
| 24 | I 've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right , then generally speaking , so am I. I also notice as the years lurch by , and I would n't dream of telling anyone but you , that my mother was right . |
| 25 | that 's Yeah I , I 've lost over a stone now . |
| 26 | I 've taped over it now . |
| 27 | Just as I never never let other girls see that I know I am pretty ; nobody knows how I 've fallen over myself not to take that unfair advantage . |
| 28 | I 've sweated over all this for six months , and I 'm not going to see that work wasted . |
| 29 | I 've pondered over a couple of the things . |
| 30 | But the grey-haired proprietress is adamant : ‘ I 've lived over this shop for years , and I 'm not moving now . ’ |