Example sentences of "to trip over " in BNC.

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1 He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor .
2 Most interviewers knew that a mass of inconsistencies lay at the heart of Labour 's campaign , but getting Mr Kinnock to trip over them was another matter .
3 The corrugations of the track were half-filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine-driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers .
4 And they were about to trip over the first foot …
5 After another fond peep at his sleeping face , she crept out of the room , softly closed the door , and gathering up her skirt in order not to trip over the hem on the way down the stairs , swiftly retraced her steps back to the kitchen and Cissie .
6 The words seemed to trip over each other in her enthusiasm .
7 Perhaps she was only going to warn her yet again not to trip over the electric cables .
8 If you leave them lying around , then you 're liable to trip over them .
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