Example sentences of "i have [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They caught me at it , luckily , before I 'd gone over the edge . |
| 2 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |
| 3 | Within seconds , I 'd rolled over the parapet , scrambled along the lead gutter to the hatch , drawn the bolt and entered — all without giving my head time to jam the works . |
| 4 | Movement from the centralities of ‘ real polising ’ in uniform , via the CID , into the marginal fringes of an extended period of drug squad work , had a profound influence on the absolute tenets of policing I had absorbed over the previous decade . |
| 5 | I had stared over the famous landscape : the three bridges , the brownstones of Brooklyn Heights . |
| 6 | As I looked at him sitting opposite me on the floor of the trench , I was fascinated by his resemblance to the other Commandos I had met over the past five days . |
| 7 | And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato . |
| 8 | I had got over a particularly traumatic childhood and adolescence and looked set fair for a modicum of stability as an adult . |
| 9 | I had to strain over the table to pick up the words . |
| 10 | I had boils and chilblains all over my hands , had had two days food poisoning ( when I had vomited over the Sergeant-Major 's jeep ) , and was tired all the time . |
| 11 | ‘ The roof has leaked for a year , ’ John said , ‘ and I had to cover over the electrics to protect them from the rain . |
| 12 | Crosland was replaced as Environment Secretary by Peter Shore , a much less exuberant and extrovert character , but a solid , steady man whom I had known over the years and had first met when he was the Secretary of an ad hoc committee formed by the Labour Party — with a few outside ‘ experts ’ such as Dennis Lloyd and myself — to produce a rental policy . |
| 13 | I had sorrowed over the loss of the Hood , on which my father 's brother had been ‘ sparks , ’ and mourned for the Barham and the Ark Royal . |
| 14 | Because when I went up I had to climb over the steel plate . |
| 15 | Well I had to climb over the wall and fucking jump there . |
| 16 | I 've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right , then generally speaking , so am I. I also notice as the years lurch by , and I would n't dream of telling anyone but you , that my mother was right . |
| 17 | that 's Yeah I , I 've lost over a stone now . |
| 18 | I 've pondered over a couple of the things . |
| 19 | One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere . |
| 20 | V.W. Yes , I mean that 's something that when I first started I would n't have said , but I 've seen over the last six years changes in the governors and the role of the governors and I sense very much so that now they want Catholic appointments . |
| 21 | We 've created a new sector , I , I 've seen over the last three or four years , changes in the way that we 've tried to represent our membership in the Health Service from the old industrial conferences to combined industrial conferences into the er , current erm , section that we 've now got . |
| 22 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 23 | I 've noticed over the years that the violent attacks are changing subtly . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've got nothing to show for what I 've won over the years , ’ a distraught Florrie said . |
| 25 | I 've been , I 've came over the handlebars , Ian came over the handlebars with the bikes , so it is rough terrain |
| 26 | A towel that I 've put over the radiator to get warm so I can wrap it cosily round myself and hug myself dry . |
| 27 | I 've changed over the last couple of years . |
| 28 | I 've looked over the shoulder at a few of these and they are obviously not the sort of thing , that you came sliding out of your mother 's womb knowing how to do . |
| 29 | I have included here a planning chart for small conferences which has served as a basis for hundreds of other charts I 've used over the years . |
| 30 | I might have checked out the financial aspects of buying into the station , but one thing I 've learned over the years is that you can never do too much research . |