Example sentences of "over his " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Gaily had finished , he sat back , his heavy legs sprawled anyhow over the hearth , and ran an anxious hand over his already thin hair . |
| 2 | Janet had little option but to sit on his lap with her legs stretched over his . |
| 3 | Sarah put a hand over his , as they held the reins . |
| 4 | I was into Regazzoni 's car which was sliding backwards and my rear wheels climbed over his . |
| 5 | Impulsively she put her hand over his and said with passion : ‘ You are going to have to deal with a smart , slick world , quick to ridicule those who do not understand its manners — a world where you want friends , not enemies . |
| 6 | It is hard to believe that the hiccups over his newly published autobiography can be the real reason behind the decision . |
| 7 | The man looking down at her wore an imposing set of whiskers , a grey beard hung down over his brightly coloured waistcoat and thick , waving grey hair sprouted back from his forehead , giving him the look of an ageing lion . |
| 8 | The confessions add considerably to de Benedetti 's embarrassments , because he is already relying on the labyrinthine Italian judicial system of appeals , and the country 's statute of limitations to avoid the possibility of a jail sentence over his - fairly tenuous — involvement in the Banco Ambrosiano collapse . |
| 9 | She blushed charmingly and laid a hand over his . |
| 10 | Placing her mouth over his , she murmured teasingly , running her fingers along the nape of his neck , watching his face so she could smile into those magnificent green eyes when they opened to gaze on her . |
| 11 | She puts her hand over his . |
| 12 | He glanced over his shoulder and Snodgrass , who loved gossip , glanced over his as well , because you never knew who might be listening in an enchanted castle . |
| 13 | Alice put her hand over his . |
| 14 | Her hand was moving gently over his . |
| 15 | She murmured to him and put her hand over his . |
| 16 | He lay back and she stretched her body over his , leaning to his mouth and parting his lips with her tongue . |
| 17 | She murmured something he could n't catch and flung her leg over his . |
| 18 | If your product can offer no particular advantages over his , then if he drops his price , you will have to follow suit . |
| 19 | She sat down beside him and laid a velvety hand over his . |
| 20 | Robyn placed her hand over his , lifting it away , realising swiftly that he was more than a little drunk . |
| 21 | Watanabe 's appointment as Foreign Minister was received with some surprise in the USA , which had protested in 1988 over his allegedly racist remarks about the country 's black population . |
| 22 | As he thought of them actually screwing — of Maisie winding her arms round him , hitching her legs over his , pumping up and down , up and down — the blood rose to his face . |
| 23 | Reaching on tiptoe , she brushed her lips over his . |
| 24 | Ali Ardalan , a retired civil servant in his mid 70s arrested in June 1990 , remains in prison and there is growing concern over his ill-health . |
| 25 | He tosses up the Clothes with a barbarous swing over his Shoulders , disorders the whole Economy of my Bed , leaves me half naked , and my whole Night 's Comfort is the tuneable Serenade of that wakeful Nightingale , his Nose . |
| 26 | The elders are individuals of good-standing drawn from the local laity , who both appoint their minister and have considerable control over his or her activities — there is at present one woman minister with a congregation in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | New little clavichord in his study , seventeenth century , and over his desk his charts and diagrams . |
| 28 | She 'd even got Bert 's back up proper , over his betting and poor old Floss . |
| 29 | Celebrated French director Bertrand Tavernier will be in Birmingham straight off the set of his latest film for a retrospective look over his career and films with the Guardian 's film critic Derek Malcolm . |
| 30 | He seemed relieved when I told him I was reading anthropology and , looking somewhat apprehensively over his shoulder at the sociology building , he muttered ‘ well thank goodness you 're not taking bloody sociology , with all those left wing bastards who hate the polis ’ . |