Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However small it was ( and whether it is just or not ) , I have felt over the years that the Halton experience has enabled me ( despite my background ) to bridge the gap between those far off days , and reaching the rank of sergeant pilot , and the mid-war years when , in a few months , there was swift passage through the roles of flight commander , squadron commander , staff officer and station commander . |
| 2 | Many farms I have visited over the past 10 years have needed little more than a re-organisation of their existing system and some basic drainage alterations . |
| 3 | I hope and pray that you will win — God willing , you will because you have all the ability in the world — but I have discovered over the last few days that there are people prepared to go to great lengths to stop you . |
| 4 | I am delighted to report that despite the increase both of magpies and crows last year , I have observed over the winter feeding period the usual mixture of birds . |
| 5 | I have no doubt that dedicated woodturners everywhere would scoff at the idea of engineers ' lathes being used for woodturners , but when I think of the various moulds and patterns I have made over the years with comparative ease but which due to their intricacies could only have been made with extreme difficulty on a wood lathe — if at all . |
| 6 | One of my favourite photograph frames that I have made over the years is a 15-cm ( 6-in ) square piece of card , into the centre of which a heart-shape aperture is cut about 7. 5cm ( 3in ) high . |
| 7 | It is , I think , no chance that I have chosen over the years to support women rather than men political prisoners in Chile . |
| 8 | ‘ I am not bitter about that , only grateful to Arbroath for allowing me the opportunity to put what I have learned over the years into practice , ’ said McGrain , who was awarded the MBE in 1983 for his services to the game . |
| 9 | I have learnt over the years to talk your way , behave your way , and even to think and feel your way . |
| 10 | It is these experiences which have prompted me to set down in this book some of the lessons I have learnt over the years . |
| 11 | It seems that we would be much better off if we spent money not on constructing a barrage but on cleaning up the various sewage works that I have castigated over the years . |
| 12 | I have been very pleased with my performance , with my success and the achievements which I have enjoyed over the past 20 years . |
| 13 | I have found over the years that it is immensely helpful to take time out and try to think things through , and I would imagine that most other managers do the same , even though all of us are heavily action-orientated . |
| 14 | Well , from what I have gleaned over the years , I would say that many women find it harder to accept an affair which had a strong emotional attachment . |
| 15 | All the money I have earned over the years has gone — in some cases I do n't why or where — but the fact is that at the age of 40 , I have no savings . |
| 16 | the subscriptions and withdrawals that you have made over the period |
| 17 | I am writing in reply to all the letters you have printed over the past few months about Steffi Graf . |
| 18 | We do appreciate you Steffi , for everything you have done over the years and for that special week in Brighton . |
| 19 | When you have crossed over the cable stitches , bring the needles out to holding ( E ) position . |
| 20 | The cliffs are not very high , but once you have abseiled over the edge you enter a world of powerful adventure , whatever your grade of climbing ( and there are fine routes in every grade ) . |
| 21 | So we thank you for food , for clothing , for our homes , and for the government that you have set over the world . |
| 22 | You have changed over the last month . |
| 23 | It is the complex connections you have learned over the years . |
| 24 | ‘ We have gone over the dangers from dead-ball situations repeatedly in training , ’ he stormed . |
| 25 | We have marvelled over the years at the couples who , with very humble means , managed modest but lovely homes and were never financially embarrassed . |
| 26 | ‘ What we have done over the past two years is to improve on our ability to retain the ball in contact , to drive very successfully as units ( as the All Blacks found to their cost in Lille ) and to deep those drives going . |
| 27 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 28 | Certainly , we have seen over the last seven years in Britain new educational legislation of a kind which is having a profound influence upon practice in education departments and schools — for better or for worse . |
| 29 | We have seen over the summer the impact that pictures , in particular , can have — scenes of prison camps in the former Yugoslavia , of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ , of the random bombardment of bread queues or of people burying their dead . |
| 30 | We have noticed over the last few months at Cadogan Travel seem to be noticeably more expensive than the other travel agents used by Christian Aid . |