Example sentences of "come over [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 2 | Before returning to England he was asked to persuade Gladstone to come over for the 1878 Yale ‘ commencement ’ but he would plead in vain . |
| 3 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 4 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 5 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
| 6 | Her ancestors came over on the legendary vessel . |
| 7 | When I told Constanza , she who has a memory for these things said , ‘ Good Lord , not M. J. Devaux who came over with the French team after the war ? ’ |
| 8 | Milwall have the lead that 's the important thing here it came over at the far side of the penalty area , had got up for it Ray and the Kennedy there was also a Middlesbrough foot in there . |
| 9 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 10 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 11 | The ability of this young quartet to present two works from such different worlds so convincingly , led one to expect that Dvorak 's American quartet would be a powerful experience ; but what might have been hot-blooded came over as an indoor gypsy — more pretty than potent . |
| 12 | He called them Amurricanes , in a heavy stage accent that came over as an envious sneer . |
| 13 | It nearly always came over in a bad light , as a bunch of cocooned scientists trying to hoodwink the common sense of ordinary folk . |
| 14 | This fella came over in an 18–30 steward 's blazer and he said , ‘ You 're responsible for me working here ’ . |
| 15 | It was odd coming over as a tragic heroine . |
| 16 | Most of the new people who 'd be coming over in the last couple of years a lot of them would n't be coming out to our concerts yet because they would probably be into a more younger scene like the Mary Blacks , maybe or the Christian Moore or somebody like that you would be catering for a younger audience and the the second third generation would be coming out to the First to the Foster and Allens and the Daniel O'Donnells and the Brendan Shines you know . |
| 17 | After a long time I heard him get up and come over to the long wall , near to where I was sitting listlessly in the arm-chair . |
| 18 | There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well . |
| 19 | Or Jagger would come over from the next hotel and we 'd have late night ‘ looning ’ sessions , and then Angie and I would go off again with Zowie . |
| 20 | For these reasons it is the delightful little Concerto which comes over with the greatest conviction though the recording acoustic is far too resonant for the essentially intimate character of the writing ; and the sound in general affords too much prominence to the continuo which booms away in a far from discreet manner . |
| 21 | When Mr Major waxes philosophical , he comes over as a strange mix of nostalgia and modernism . |
| 22 | ‘ The strong prejudice against only children comes over as a clear reason for having at least two , ’ she says . |
| 23 | Well I know it is and er I hope it comes over in a genuine way . |
| 24 | The benefits of the balancing , bouncing and clambering are that your body is relaxed instead of recital-rigid and the voice comes over in a strong way . |
| 25 | In an uproarious performance , Finney comes over like a Mancunian Tigger , insufferably bouncy and crassly insensitive . |