Example sentences of "[pron] went over [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I went over to the rear door and looked out , seeing a little open boarding platform with a polished brass-topped balustrade and , beyond , the Canadian Pacific 's single pair of rails streaming away into darkness .
2 I went over to the other side . ’
3 ‘ We arrived back at Blackpool and after the usual checks with Special and refuelling I went over to the waiting ambulance to join the reception committee .
4 In my new mood , I went over to the solitary man and said easily , pulling out a chair , ‘ May I sit at your table ? ’
5 She went over to the round table in the middle of the room , moved The Field and Country Life into slightly different positions , concealed the one ashtray to discourage smoking , and went down the passage to see if her brother was ready .
6 The day Ruth walked out of this family — when she went over to the Roman Church — she cut herself off from us .
7 She went over to the games-room window .
8 She went over to the big , old , white sink in the corner and Joe fetched out the hoe and vanished towards the vegetable field .
9 When she came out leading Violet by the bridle , she went over to the mounting block and climbed up on to the horse .
10 We went over to the other bed , the higher and wider one .
11 They went over to the far end of the pit .
12 And then when they went over to the other side of the road which I do n't walk on very often
13 They went over to the nearby tea-stall and then , with their glasses of tea , drifted over to one of the trees where a chestnut-seller was just lighting his fire .
14 He was district secretary of the ITGWU and had stood on the NILP ticket a number of times before the split of 1949 , when he went over to the Irish Labour Party .
15 He went over to the biggest gift of them all , picked it up and plonked it , gratefully , in Mr Patten 's hands .
16 Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it .
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