if a container runs over, there is too much liquid in it
to continue for longer than planned
to explain something again so that someone understands
to hit someone or something with a vehicle and drive over them
to practise what you are going to say in a speech, performance etc
to think a lot about something, such as a decision or experience
A 12-year-old girl is brought in with multiple injuries after being hit by a car and run over by a bus.
A founder who is too influential can get run over by a bus and the value is diminished overnight.
A learner driver ran over and killed her three-year-old son, an inquest has been told.
A thin person could adopt a child and be run over by a bus.
An internal review also ran over time?
And this is after our traffic was calmed, because a neighbour's child was run over.
And what - here we go again - if he got run over by a bus?
Both drivers ran over the leopard's legs.
But that one was like getting run over.
But what if I go through the cold sweats and the bad temper and the weight gain and then get run over by a bus?
He selected an unexciting backline which likes to run over people.
I couldn’t stop running it over in my mind.
Inside, it must look like a lemon that's been run over by a bus.
It was an idyllic existence but it came to an end in 1926 when her father was run over by a bus.
It's just like being run over as opposed to dying in a plane crash.
Keeley was run over by a car outside her house.
Largely because the middle-class children have all run over to one side of it.
Oh, it's just a little something my driver ran over on the way here.
She kept running over her lines.
Sorry I’m late, the meeting ran over.
Taking nearly three years to make, it was a lavish production for its time and ran over budget.
The cost of visiting a family member twice a day, or appointments running over time causes extra stress.
The driver had earlier run over and injured a British soldier as he drove at high speed towards the runway.
The first was that I was very nearly run over by a bus outside an outdoor equipment shop.
Then the truck backed up and ran over him again, crushing him under its front wheel.
These storylines have been, er, run over a million times before.
Two fifths of parents have witnessed their children being almost run over on their way to or from school, according to a survey for a transport charity.
When the van owner attempted to stop the car, the driver ran over and killed him.
Would you run over the sequence of events again?
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