Example sentences of "over [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am over here to do a job , remember ! ’ |
| 2 | I arranged to come over here to do the research and a name that came up again and again was Munro — Brigadier Dougal Munro . |
| 3 | Barry 's over here to promote a new watersports resort at the Cotswold Water Park . |
| 4 | PS Nutty 's got a good pair of legs if they 're any use to you , why do n't you slice your way over here to see them ? do n't think he 'd miss them as he 's legless most of the time anyway . |
| 5 | Raymond Floyd might have suggested that the match was all about sportsmanship and camaraderie but there was no disguising the feeling in the American camp when someone as eloquent as Tom Watson could state that he was " over here to kick some butt " . |
| 6 | Nero sends his luv , you know he 's coming over here to give us a turn this winter . |
| 7 | Oh , what we need is Richard over here to give us some of his crazy comments , yeah . |
| 8 | ‘ You did n't ask me over here to discuss the pictures though , Harriet — admit it . |
| 9 | There has always been this tendency over here to try and save on public spending , ’ says Professor Greve . |
| 10 | Right , bring it over here to have a look . |
| 11 | Yes , he 's recorded the song , and he 's asked us over here to make contact with you to see whether you and Basil … |
| 12 | I did n't come over here to eat potato crisps , he thought , and turned over , and cried for Bella , and ate another potato crisp . |
| 13 | and they sent a , a professor over here to study it . |
| 14 | ‘ You do n't know them , Sister , ’ he said darkly , ‘ and if they 're not thinking that then they 'll say I 'm skiving or only coming over here to chat up the nurses . ’ |
| 15 | Which perhaps opens the door for TV companies over here to step in and make stars once more out of top domestic wrestlers . |
| 16 | You 're over here to help organize the royal visit . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ What I would n't agree with is someone coming over here to play and picking up a cheap cap . |
| 18 | One could almost go over there to do one 's weekly marketing — or on into Rouen , where the big market day is also on Tuesday , and from where you could bring home butter made from unpasteurized cream , great bowls of tripes à la mode , and duck pâtés , and baskets full of big round Breton artichokes for a tenth of the price we have to pay here . |
| 19 | And you 're not over there to say , hello ! |
| 20 | Absolutely , does it make sense for , for husband and wife over there to wait for the second one to have a heart attack , or the second one to have a cancer before it pays out , |
| 21 | She 's just looking over there to see which one she wants to throw up on . |
| 22 | Gerry had seen his face and they got to go and look at the mug shots and all that and er longlegs had been informed across the road because they 'd got er a camera that works and er they got in touch with the , they told the police about it and so they 're going over there to see if it 's been recorded you see . |
| 23 | Last night I told them over there to screw it up to two million dollars or I 'm out . |
| 24 | We 're not gon na be looking at it this morning , but it 's quite simple if you were to read on down , the reason why is because on the other side there is a man there who is possessed of a whole legion of demons who desperately needs deliverance and Jesus is going over there to bring healing , to bring deliverance to this man . |
| 25 | I even 'eard Mum say the other day she was goin' over there to get a loan . |
| 26 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 27 | He 's not seriously going over there to get a pound out of Richard is he ? |