21 examples of over people in sentences

Nig came walking after his friend straight over people's heads.

O'Flynn was walking over people in his frantic haste to reach the Colonel.

The zebras and giraffes are the dudes of the show, and you can imagine, if they were human, they would play tennis and golf, drive four in hands and pose to be admired, while the Royal Bengal tigers, if they were half human, would drive automobiles at the rate of a mile a minute on crowded streets, run over people and never stop to help the wounded, but skip away with a sneer, as much as to say: "What are you going to do about it?"

She is a very vain woman, anyway,vain of her power over people, I think.

I don't like to fuss over people or have them fuss over me.

Lady Doraine was being so lovely to her, and Octavia was in one of her moods when she talks over people's heads, so we had not a very pleasant walk, until we came to the stable gate, when Octavia and I went that way to see her new hunters.

A victory over people who were not allowed the chance of defending themselves.

The Foreign Office said they could not take over people from other government departments.

As it was, she recognized that by methods such as this she could retain absolute control over people like Mrs. Baxter.

The crushing superiority of civilized States over people with a less developed civilization and military system is due to this altered form of military efficiency.

Leta vowed, "The little baggage must be a witch and throw spells over people.

No shadow of frigid respectability hangs over people's actions and freezes spontaneousness.

No, he wanted to see his son free and influential, continuing the conquest of the city, completing the family greatness of which he had laid the foundations, getting power over people much as he himself had gotten power over money.

The thing must be given if it is required, not poured over people's heads, as Aristophanes says, with a ladle.

" "Well, Lord Ralles," I said, "I hope for your sake, then, that you'll never be in a hold-up, for I should feel about you as the runner of a locomotive did when the old lady asked him if it was'nt very painful to him to run over people.

He resolved to make a direct attempt upon him; for he had confidence in the influence he could obtain over people when he chatted and treated in person with them.

It has been very well remarked by M. de Barante, in his Histoire des Dues de Bourgogne, that "Louis had a great idea of the influence he gained over people by his wits and his language; he was always convinced that people never said what ought to be said, and that they did not set to work the right way."

But the warrior's heroism, in conjunction with what is outwardly brilliant and winning in the man, exercises a great influence over people.

He went out once to get a breath of air, and they turned the lights out before he could get back, so that he stumbled over people, and one man kicked him.

There is no doubt that on some days the devil reigns with a more potent sway over people than on others.

"You grow worse every dayone would think you did it on purposeriding rough-shod over people's feelings.

21 examples of  over people  in sentences