Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jessamy shakily got to her feet , took a couple of very deep breaths , then stubbornly went over to the door . |
| 2 | So , as the other person already occupied part of the left hand bench , he quite naturally went over to the right hand bench and promptly sat down . |
| 3 | In the same year he became the chairman of the radical Green Ribbon Club , but he briefly and secretly came over to the court interest . |
| 4 | Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off |
| 5 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 6 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 7 | The determined practical side of my nature soon took over from the lazy brooding one . |
| 8 | Agnes got hers with the pale coffee already slopped over into the two sugar lumps and two hard little biscuits in the saucer . |
| 9 | Then Tobermory entered the room and calmly walked over to the tea table . |
| 10 | He quickly ran over to the first hangar . |
| 11 | Annie nodded and automatically went over to the sink to check that everything was done . |
| 12 | We were going round and round in a weird dance and nearly slipped over in the pee that was splattered on the floor . |
| 13 | Maybe it 's in the re-discovered Viking city , now covered over by the Civic Offices . |
| 14 | The SPA unanimously elected Kaysone Phomvihane , as the country 's new President , replacing Phoumi Vongvichit , who had served as President in an acting capacity since 1986 when he effectively took over from the ailing Souphanouvong [ see p. 35005 ] . |
| 15 | In the end , she threw her pencil across the room in frustration , then paced over to the window . |
| 16 | He drank water from the pitcher , then staggered over to the basin on the table and thrust his head into it , the chill water making him gasp . |
| 17 | I followed the police car back to base and made a short statement about finding Toby , and then drove over to the hospital . |
| 18 | It was in caves near Irkutsk that the Russian imperial treasure of gold was buried after the 1917 revolution , then handed over to the Bolsheviks in 1920 . |
| 19 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 20 | Hari was tired , she had worked all day and then walked over to the other side of town and back and now there was supper to get . |
| 21 | Rohan gave her a long look , then strode over to the clump of bushes she indicated . |
| 22 | So we split up towards the end of the season and I then went over to the States . |
| 23 | Siegfried took a long shuddering breath then went over to the bread tin , extracted a loaf and began to saw at it . |
| 24 | Her daughter wiped her clean , and then went over to the little table and turned on the portable television . |
| 25 | The towelling prepared , she made a neat pile of it , and then went over to the large bed , on which four or five persons normally slept . |
| 26 | They stopped and surveyed the scene ; the other dropped the umbrella , offered a hand , and he , clasping the camera firmly in one hand , drew himself up , balanced , then reached over to the other side . |
| 27 | Penry parked the Range Rover in the open space behind the arches of the ancient market hall , then reached over into the back for Leonora 's bag . |
| 28 | This white turkey virtually took over as the sole breed ; and , by the Christmas of 1959 , there was hardly any demand for the bronze bird . |
| 29 | Duncan then marched over to the ‘ Ron 's Recks ’ truck and opened the passenger side door . |
| 30 | We therefore moved over to the second limb of the permanency strategy , the strategy of placement in substitute new families preferably for adoption . |