Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates , generally regarded as the wealthiest person in the US , is no longer the country 's most eligible bachelor — he became engaged over the weekend to 28- year-old Melinda French , a Dallas-born product manager at Microsoft who joined Microsoft in 1987 and is now product manager for the Microsoft Publisher desktop publishing programme . |
| 2 | It was awkward , too , from the sales point of view , that Richard had been aboard one of these barges when he got knocked over the head . |
| 3 | was put forward by his coach in recognition of the success he has achieved over the past year . |
| 4 | Yesterday saw Hopkinson in sad , frustrated mood , attacking the ‘ complacency ’ among many field sportsmen and bewailing the lack of support he has received over the past seven years . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what recent representations he has received over the level of the retirement pension . |
| 6 | Brian Clough , the Forest manager , said : ‘ His contract was not expiring but he deserved a rise for the contribution he has made over the last 12 months -so he earned himself a new deal . ’ |
| 7 | Among the weird and wacky weather facts he has accumulated over the years : IN the severe winter of 1814 the Thames froze over for nine weeks . |
| 8 | He has given over the training to Druim and Unish . |
| 9 | Albie has become a celebrity in Speke , and now he has got over the shock I think he is actually enjoying the limelight . |
| 10 | Armed with the techniques he has learned over the past months , he is free to combine them in whatever way he thinks suits his stature . |
| 11 | He has dedicated his entire career to the development of sport in Scotland and I am sure all Council members will want to join me in thanking him for the commitment he has shown over the years . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd crossed over the rocks . |
| 13 | He had agreed to the live radio interview readily enough , probably expecting it to run the course of a dozen or so others he 'd done over the past couple of years . |
| 14 | He 'd gone over the car with a cloth , wiping fingerprints from the steering wheel and the door handles , then he 'd tossed that into the Lancia . |
| 15 | The reason he 'd gone over the wall was simple . |
| 16 | The luminaries he 'd entertained over the decades — the defecting dancers and minor spies , the addicted debutantes , the rock stars with Messianic leanings and the bishops who made idols of barrow-boys — they 'd all had their moments of glory , then fallen . |
| 17 | When Ronald Summerfield died three years ago his house and shop were found to be piled high with antiques he 'd collected over the years . |
| 18 | The wearing of boxer shorts was just one of the many American ways he 'd adopted over the years . |
| 19 | She was more bothered than ever , for Timothy 's eyes had a dreamy look which she 'd never seen in them before , and he 'd lingered over the girl 's name whenever he had used it . |
| 20 | Throw a shovelful of tarmac into the canal and they went to pieces , it had n't been his fault he 'd tripped over the cat . |
| 21 | The idea of a sequel seemed odd , ‘ Harvest ’ was an LP he 'd badmouthed over the years , and it was hardly his style to go into the Mike Oldfield school of repackaging old product . |
| 22 | The haze of his first cigarette clouded the room briefly and in the streak of light from the curtains he saw the heaped clothes and the mark on the hotel carpet where he 'd knocked over the glass of water . |
| 23 | He sat on a kitchen chair while she peeled back the plaster he 'd stuck over the wound . |
| 24 | Before an audience of 5,000 at the Royal Albert Hall , Harrison performed songs he had written over the past 25 years , and some Beatles classics . |
| 25 | He had flown over the sea for a short time — the western sea , the wrong sea — then swung back on a reciprocal . |
| 26 | In an instant he had vaulted over the side of their car and had begun swinging himself along towards the head of the train and the car occupied by Lord Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan . |
| 27 | He decided the wisest course was to pool all he had made over the last two years , enabling Julian to purchase the lease of a high street property . |
| 28 | When he had kicked over the traces , after Cambridge — joined the City police as a flat-foot , instead of following his family 's military tradition — they had volunteered to come to London with him . |
| 29 | I watched Schanberg in Phnom Penh struggling almost schizophrenically to divorce himself from the celebrity that he had become over the years and re-enter the personality he had had before . |
| 30 | Auguste , or Mr Dee as he had become over the week , smiled . |