Example sentences of "had [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Finally , he had held out a bunch of one-dollar bills to her , said ‘ Rent , ’ and without another word had vaulted over the veranda balustrade and loped down the path to the garage . |
| 3 | The dog that had jumped over the fence into Jubilee Wood had n't been wearing a collar . |
| 4 | The fact that Mondrian had painted over the back of the canvas had helped keep the painting in particularly fine condition . |
| 5 | She had sprinted over the drive and was halfway across the stone-flagged terrace when a figure appeared around the corner of the house . |
| 6 | But by the next morning sleep had smoothed over the ragged edges of Folly 's doubt . |
| 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 | Even before the doors were opened in the spring of 1985 , an almighty row had developed over the usage of the centre by SM ( sadomasochism ) groups . |
| 9 | The implications of this question , transformed by the reprehensible way in which the administration of life imprisonment had developed over the intervening years , were to be subjected to critical review by a Lords Select Committee in 1988–9 . |
| 10 | It was an affectation that had developed over the years . |
| 11 | A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature . |
| 12 | A German Zeppelin had flown over the Scottish coast at Leith , and dropped a bomb which by pure luck hit a bonded warehouse full of whisky , which went up in large flames , thus lighting up the darkened city . |
| 13 | Rogers had flown over the Front many times , and he thought of it as two huge armies entrenched against each other , launching and repelling attacks massively and obviously ; but now , he supposed , the fog must have dissolved the armies into isolated soldiers , each fighting his own tiny battle , with no way of knowing whether his side was winning or losing . |
| 14 | He had flown over the sea for a short time — the western sea , the wrong sea — then swung back on a reciprocal . |
| 15 | I had stared over the famous landscape : the three bridges , the brownstones of Brooklyn Heights . |
| 16 | It looked as though a grader had been over it just before the Amazonian rains had spilled over the Andes . |
| 17 | Smoke was billowing out from it now , where fuel had spilled over the hot engine . |
| 18 | Quite a bit had spilled over the floor already so nobody would notice any more . |
| 19 | Queen Elizabeth 's vault in Westminster Abbey was examined in 1868 by Dean Stanley : ‘ There was no disorder or decay , except that the centring wood had fallen over the head of Elizabeth 's coffin , and that the wood case had crumbled away at the sides , and had drawn away part of the decaying lid . ’ |
| 20 | Below him he could hear the passing wail of sirens , a familiar sound after dark had fallen over the city . |
| 21 | The roads are hairpins , up and down , and they 're , they 're not tarmacked and so erm you often saw er buses that had fallen over the sides down into the river or that just were on their side , and that erm that obviously there 'd been accidents . |
| 22 | It was a dark night , and on the beach they had fallen over the dead body of a man . |
| 23 | The minute she had entered the room a grim , tense atmosphere had fallen over the Queen 's solar . |
| 24 | A stygian gloom had fallen over the world . |
| 25 | But Sealink did admit that their numbers had fallen over the nine months from January 1 to Monday of this week , by 20,755 passengers and 9,644 cars . |
| 26 | Even so , after several pints of the local brew , the big Swede had leaned over the bar , grabbed Renee 's skinny little shoulders , and planted a big cidery kiss smack on her lips . |
| 27 | He was described in this militia list as a weaver , the same trade that his ancestors had pursued over the generations . |
| 28 | Edward had won over the industrial towns of Flanders in 1340 , and the maintenance of the English position there was to be a basic strategic principle until its decisive failure in 1385 . |
| 29 | Kleon , in Aristophanes ' Knights , is represented as a ‘ lover of the demos ’ , but Philodemos occurs as a proper name in an Athenian casualty-list of as early as c.460 ( ML 33 ) ; more important , Kleisthenes in the sixth century had taken the demos into partnership , as Herodotus puts it , and Pericles in the 460s had won over the people with jury pay . |
| 30 | Partly in the course of his business , partly out of a personal interest , Julian Hayman had amassed over the years a remarkably comprehensive archive of criminals of every kind . |