Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 2 | As a student , with everybody into punk in a big way , I 'd regularly paid over the odds for Chuck Mangione imports . |
| 3 | She was not going to fall in love with him , but even as she said this vehemently to herself , Sara was afraid that she had already gone over the precipice she had been conscious of this morning . |
| 4 | A good deal of the historical footage I had already seen over the years and some of it , such as the dreadful footage of the Warsaw Ghetto , was only too familiar . |
| 5 | The sun had just appeared over the treeline , as blond as clarified butter but powerful none the less , hinting at the furnace-heat to come . |
| 6 | In fact it was only a minute or so from the M27 and we had just passed over the Queen Elizabeth Bridge at Dartford . |
| 7 | When she felt she could not naturally stand by the window any longer she went and inspected the gritty old review copies of books which had somehow collected over the years on the office shelves — Take Your Car to North Africa ! |
| 8 | He pulled the door wide ; then before she had hardly got over the step he slammed it closed . |
| 9 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 10 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 11 | She ached inside , a sensation that had once been very familiar , but which she had deliberately suppressed over the last four years until she had almost forgotten what it had felt like . |
| 12 | Somehow her fingers had automatically closed over the bag he had thrust forward . |
| 13 | He had probably looked over the preparatory material which had already been published elsewhere , and sketched out the remaining chapters , during his period of convalescence in the late summer and autumn of 1947 . |
| 14 | Somehow the chap , who had plainly gone over the top , he could understand that , must be convinced they were no threat to him . |
| 15 | Indeed , it had even baulked over the European Payments Union for five months until it gained complete assurance that it would still be able to retain sole control over sterling as an international reserve currency . |
| 16 | Ana had beamed at this and Mitch had looked stunned , especially as Felipe had almost choked over the necessity to say Mitch and extend the same courtesy to both his guests . |
| 17 | Yet here , on the verge of the Lowlands , most of the gentry had hedged their bets ; some had even entertained the Butcher as he progressed triumphally from one massacre to the next and had then bought over the gutted glens and stocked them with the great sheep . |
| 18 | However , she maintained the moral impetus of her early years , although she had quite cast off its derivations and turned her back upon its fraudulent source ; the narrow fervours and disapprovals were there , but their objects had subtly altered over the years . |
| 19 | She had barely skimmed over the last few paragraphs of information , used to Debbie 's ridiculous ideas about a person 's birth sign giving a clue to his character , but now the temptation to find out proved too great . |
| 20 | Some later Acts , such as that of 1853 disafforesting Wychwood Forest , did not extinguish common rights : common fields were to be set and cleared in each parish in compensation for the common rights which the forest inhabitants had previously enjoyed over the whole forest waste . |
| 21 | She had half fallen over the bonnet when the car stopped . |
| 22 | After first suggesting that the U2 had accidentally wandered over the Soviet Union , the President admitted that such " spy " flights were a regular occurrence . |
| 23 | The less they saw of each other , Constance had reluctantly accepted over the years , the better friends she and her mother were . |
| 24 | Although the Israeli delegation said that it was prepared to discuss issues raised by the Palestinians , the two sides remained deeply divided over the organization of the talks . |