Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sow was very angry when we took her little boys away and tried to clamber over the wall of the sty . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ A couple of blokes tried to go over the wall about a year ago . |
| 4 | They tried to leap over the sandbags , but were too slow . |
| 5 | The boys were waiting to cross the road here and the horse came down this lane , galloped straight across the road in front of the traffic then onto the pavement , tried to jump over the boys and jumped onto the boys . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know why anyone would do something like this , ’ he said , ‘ but the stickers are proper , professional ones , not just scrawled writing over the posters . |
| 7 | Bourassa 's view of the package was overwhelmingly endorsed by a special 4,000-member Liberal Party convention in Quebec on Aug. 29-30 , at which the provincial Premier gave a powerful performance and promised to win over the population of Quebec at the October referendum . |
| 8 | She tried to walk over the rich green grass towards them , but her feet seemed glued in place . |
| 9 | She passed Seb Smith 's house one evening in the spring , taking a new route when exercising Midnight , and stopped to look over the hedge ( too high for nosers on foot ) into the Smith grounds . |
| 10 | The UK nevertheless intended to submit its own proposed amendments in January 1991 ( on the basis of Major 's June proposals for a parallel " hard ecu " — see p. 37521 ) , prompting European Commission President Jacques Delors to warn on Dec. 15 of a political crisis if the UK tried to stall over the issues of a single currency and a central bank . |
| 11 | Eventually Maidstone tried to scramble over the bar but he slipped and fell heavily onto the floor . |
| 12 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 13 | They lied at least four times last week as they tried to gloss over the seriousness of a plutonium spillage at the heart of their reprocessing operation . |
| 14 | She tried to gloss over the humiliation of it . |
| 15 | Are shoppers now expected to hover over the vegetable counter at the supermarket , stricken with anxiety trying to remember which greens cause cancer and which do not ? |
| 16 | He agreed to preside over a public meeting of the inhabitants of Dundee to be held on 10 November 1819 to protest against ‘ the unprovoked , cruel and cowardly attack made on the people of Manchester ’ and ‘ to suggest the means most likely to lead to a reform of abuses ’ . |
| 17 | The King added that he knew MacDonald could depend on Conservative and Liberal support , and he agreed to preside over a meeting of the three party leaders on the following day . |
| 18 | But he could not resist holding the bird up to his desk lamp , so that the light ran across the surface and seemed to flow over the edges in crimson flame . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He came to stoop over the trussed man , tested his bonds with a fierce and agonising tug . |
| 21 | Even in death their lips were curled in a snarl ; their wizened faces and staring , blank eyes seemed to gloat over the evil they had planned . |
| 22 | That 's if the lawyers left her anything after they 'd picked over the bones . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He did n't want to talk about it , and muttered that he 'd resigned over a matter of principle concerning next year 's timetable . |
| 25 | The wearing of boxer shorts was just one of the many American ways he 'd adopted over the years . |
| 26 | Sancho meanwhile had himself crowned king of Leon , and thus came to rule over the most extensive kingdom in the whole of Christian Spain . |
| 27 | In desperation your mother gave me some home movies they 'd made over the years , and I watched a chubby five-year-old with a cheeky grin and eyes like pansies . |
| 28 | He had agreed to the live radio interview readily enough , probably expecting it to run the course of a dozen or so others he 'd done over the past couple of years . |
| 29 | All the careful protections she 'd built over the years ? |
| 30 | When Ronald Summerfield died three years ago his house and shop were found to be piled high with antiques he 'd collected over the years . |