Example sentences of "over [art] [noun] [pers pn] 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 2 | ‘ I get on better on my own , ’ he said to his mother , looking over the leaflets he 'd picked up . |
| 3 | There was a long pause while she cleared the bed of her things , and she was aware of his eyes on her every movement as he checked over the items she 'd packed for any signs of decadence . |
| 4 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 5 | But over the years she 'd studied hard — correspondence courses , night classes , anything she could lay her hands on . |
| 6 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 7 | On the return journey from Porto we flew up the west coast of Portugal , over the places we 'd cycled through , before cutting through to La Coruňa to land just before nightfall . |
| 8 | Dad started off in statesman-like fashion , as if he were addressing the United Nations , earnestly saying he 'd come to love Eva over the time he 'd known her and so on . |
| 9 | It seemed he had become confused over the time I 'd said I 'd pick him up , although it was always the same , and Miss Prescott thought he was a little agitated and so brought him round herself . |
| 10 | Virginia found herself desperately hoping Guy would be back at Armscott Manor , because suddenly she was possessed with a burning need to talk to him , build some kind of bridge over the chasm she 'd caused with her accusation over Farthingdales . |
| 11 | I must say Professor Hoskin I was rather struck by pictures in the papers today , yesterday of Boris Yeltsin standing over a boar he 'd shot , it was strongly reminiscent of pictures we 've seen of the former president of Romania , Ceauşescu . |
| 12 | It was a request from a colleague : he 'd be grateful if she could cast her eye over an article he 'd written for a quarterly journal , by Friday if possible . |