Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] over [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , now that I think over what you just said , I 'm sure he 'll refuse .
2 When Lou got in the car , the bulky jacket that she wore over her washed denim skirt got in the way of her seat belt and her movements as she struggled to fasten the buckle were jerky and nervous .
3 References to Sir Thomas Hoby are , perhaps deceptively , formal , though Margaret was strong-minded enough to resist until 1632 his request that she make over her Hackness and other properties to him and his heirs .
4 Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted .
5 There are also these artificial plastic toes that you fit over your artificial foot , so you can wear open-toed sandals .
6 His palm was rotating over her breast , filling her with a delicious lassitude , the unfamiliar feeling overwhelming her in the way that it took over her whole body , his touch vibrating through every nerve and firing every pulse .
7 To this unheroic proposal Charles retorted passionately that ‘ rather than go back , I would wish to be dead and buried 20 feet underground ’ , but Murray 's reputation was by now such , and his arguments so well mustered , that he won over his colleagues .
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