Example sentences of "they have [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In desperation your mother gave me some home movies they 'd made over the years , and I watched a chubby five-year-old with a cheeky grin and eyes like pansies . |
| 2 | That 's if the lawyers left her anything after they 'd picked over the bones . |
| 3 | You can see where they 've painted over it . ’ |
| 4 | They 've gone over the excavations and into the meadow — ‘ |
| 5 | But I am determined to fight back , and where I think that they 've gone over the top , I 'll take them to court . |
| 6 | For instance , if people have n't exhibited management ability in what they think are the worthwhile things they 've done over the past 30 years or so , the chance of them ever being good managers is remote . |
| 7 | The apparently calm , almost holiday mood of this Bosnian couple disguises the sheer terror they 've endured over the past few weeks . |
| 8 | There are no outstanding flashes in organic chemistry , things move step by step , and the way they 've moved over the past thirty or forty years is quite apparent if anybody looks round their home . |
| 9 | They 've got over their scare . ’ |
| 10 | I want to look at that stuff they 've got over there . |
| 11 | When they 've got over the shock , most are mainly concerned for their daughters ' welfare , and give them a lot of support , as illustrated many times in the accounts that follow . |
| 12 | Look at the beast they 've got over there on that table . |
| 13 | I mean , you do n't know what they 've got over there now do you ? |
| 14 | They tell me if I walk in a certain direction for an hour I 'll come across a road and by the time I set my watch and compass they 've vanished over the dunes . |
| 15 | It 's the last three or four months erm the lack of education they 've had over that time . |
| 16 | Within five minutes , they had received over one hundred enquiries . |
| 17 | An essential part of all eel tanks is sliding glass covers , so these were duly closed and the eels left to themselves for the night while I hoped that they were strong enough to survive the constant stress that they had endured over the past thirty-six hours . |
| 18 | Their store rooms were crammed with piles of objects , from furniture to fencing , and some of the corridors were blocked with the mounds of things they had made over the years . |
| 19 | Politicians did not relish a repeat performance of the humiliating defeat they had suffered over the suspension and repeal of the acts . |
| 20 | Managers were delighted at the price advantage which they had gained over their gas competitors and the question of whether it was artificial did not seriously concern them . |
| 21 | In the end they had to go over the Bishop 's head , obtaining the authorization they wanted from the Pope . |
| 22 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |
| 23 | It was a dark night , and on the beach they had fallen over the dead body of a man . |
| 24 | It was n't only due to the harsh words they had exchanged over Ryan ; she found it hard to write naturally because of the lie she was enacting . |
| 25 | They had seen over two-score Coburg Street boys , with sticks and stones , pass them quietly . |
| 26 | Dr Bob Tait in presenting the cup complemented all the teams on the high standard of their project presentations which they had completed over a six week period . |
| 27 | Osborne used a mallet to smash the skull of his sleeping brother , Dean , after they had rowed over girlfriends Melissa Gunn and Joanne Morse . |
| 28 | A certain element in our audience who are , basically thick , responded to what they had read over their morning cornflakes . ’ |
| 29 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 30 | On this occasion , the rule of fear they had established over the ordinary sect members worked against the Triad leadership . |