to check something carefully
to clean something, especially quickly
to move or travel towards someone or something
to practise and repeat something in order to learn it
to produce a particular reaction
to repeat a series of things, or to think about them again in order to understand them completely
to search a place thoroughly
Because we are going over to play a game we're probably not going to do a whole lot.
But so is picking a cheaper deal and getting charged for going over your allowance.
Carefully, she went over the entire raft, looking for clues.
Children often had abdominal injuries after dashing out in front of a car and going over the top.
Could you go over this report and correct any mistakes?
Go over the figures carefully before you commit.
Had one of them gone over to the dark side?
He had already fired a warning when his shot went over the bar after a mazy run.
He went over to the window and closed the curtains.
He’d gone over the car with a cloth, wiping fingerprints from the steering wheel and the door handles.
How did the news go over with your parents?
I think it has gone over the top.
I think most just go over it.
I went over and checked to see if she was OK.
It was as though we went over about a thousand marbles".
It was still rising as it went over the bar.
Last night’s performance went over very well.
My mind was going over the curious events at Ingard House.
Put it on the bottom shelf where the dregs of society get a real going over.
Schools have a tendency to go over the top about drugs.
So you go over and talk about salad.
Strikers complained because it kept going over the bar.
Sue’s going to help me go over my lines for the play.
Take in a deep breath as you raise your arms and breathe out as you go over to one side.
They went over to John’s for dinner last night.
This area is to be gone over with the greatest of care.
Those teachers go over and help get some things established.
To think of going over the moor in the daylight and when the sky was blue!
We had met a year ago, when I went over to Paris to see an exhibition.
We keep going over the play, reading it a million times.
We need to see how he goes over the next couple of days in practice.
We went over there to see her in the pony cart.
Why don’t you go over and say hello?
You get one man to go over the top and the others follow.
You just need to let him move home and see how things go over email and phone.
goes over
going over
went over
gone over
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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