Example sentences of "[pron] came over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw the shutters open , so I came over . |
| 2 | I decided when I was 11 and I started doing drama at school , when I came over from New Zealand , that I wanted to be an actress . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I came over as I said I would , ’ Susan smiled at Maggie . |
| 4 | So that accelerated my own ideas and I came over to England with that in mind . |
| 5 | I met Iggy last time I came over . |
| 6 | Agbenugba confirms the similarities between his own experience and that of his protagonist , Akin : ‘ I came over from Nigeria in 1987 . |
| 7 | I applied to correspondence courses for writing , I joined a music workshop , and at the same time I had to rush into a job , as I came over with just one bag and no money . ’ |
| 8 | I had been fed on a diet of Enid Blyton and her boarding school series , so I was eager — even excited — to be joining one when I came over to take my ‘ A ’ levels in the late sixties : I was not at all prepared for the harsh realities of English middle-class racism . |
| 9 | Since that is very near I came over with them . |
| 10 | Having a bit of a rest in the winter , I was able to relax a little bit more , so I think I came over a lot fresher than I normally do for the start of the season . |
| 11 | ‘ She died before I came over , Mrs Sutherland . |
| 12 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I came over this morning just after ten . ’ |
| 14 | Edward looked on scowling as I came over . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's why I came over to France . |
| 16 | ‘ No , I have n't , which is why I came over today ! |
| 17 | I came over , ’ he continued , ‘ and saw what you have now . ’ |
| 18 | Just before I came over . |
| 19 | Hence the possibility of saying , when neither speaker nor addressee is at home : ( 83 ) I came over several times to visit you , but you were never there So we must append another clause to our gloss , namely : " or motion towards the home-base maintained at CT by either speaker or addressee " . |
| 20 | And , ’ he went on , before Marc could interrupt , ‘ you happened to be in Paris when I came over for them . |
| 21 | see what happened is , I came over and he says , you know I 've told this lady that you saw the man standing beside her and she went she sort of , she described him , apparently he was very tall which |
| 22 | And er w when I came over before and we did Hull you know Warwickshire and I did twelve hundred miles in ten days . |
| 23 | He would if I came over , he 'd hate it . |
| 24 | that 's when I came over to you two |
| 25 | Annie saw the set of Jonna 's lips and the mutinous expression which came over his face . |
| 26 | The broadcaster who gave a complicated radio talk on a technical subject was wasting his time , for no one listened to him — a point which came over in interviews so often that it became indisputable . |
| 27 | But Alex dismisses hippy tags as totally misguided , claiming he only ever enjoyed one Steve Hillage album — ‘ Rainbow Dome Music ’ — which he was spinning in a club when Hillage himself came over and made contact . |
| 28 | And then Pepe himself came over to their table . |
| 29 | He conveys our variousness because he includes the parts of our life that he hates , as well as those he loves , and notices the many almost unknowable communities in our midst , people only a little less mysterious than his group of Aztecs who came over in stone boats . |
| 30 | One Home has had great success with an art therapist who came over to take classes , combining residents from a number of Homes close to each other . |