Example sentences of "[verb] over [coord] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm Claire spoke to him first of all , and we decided to pull over and talk to this chap cos he was going on and on , and I said to her |
| 2 | Never do if I was ordered to pull over and blow into a bag . ’ |
| 3 | But only when I reached the washed sky of the Thames did I dare to pull over and negotiate my fear . |
| 4 | He stood up , intending to wander over and offer his boss congratulations on her performance . |
| 5 | There 's never anyone there within 20 years of 50 and when people stare at me they 're either thinking I 'm a pervert who 's going to come over and feel their bottom when the band are on or I 'm ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio . ’ |
| 6 | There 's never anyone there within 20 years of 50 and when people stare at me they 're either thinking I 'm a pervert who 's going to come over and feel their bottom when the band are on or I 'm ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio . ’ |
| 7 | And when I sit here it means two things : first , that we all stop playing a part at that moment and second , that I 'd like you all to come over and sit down to discuss what we 've been doing . " |
| 8 | When we 're in Scotland , we regularly pay for Northern Ireland producers to come over and talk to us . |
| 9 | I invited Richard , a local falconer friend of mine , and his girlfriend Rosie to come over and watch Dawn 's first flight . |
| 10 | Zimbabwe and other African countries are now making the same mistake , and inviting Swedes to come over and do progressive things to their economies . |
| 11 | So we 're bringing the Swedish Airlines to come over and manage it . |
| 12 | As far as I 'm concerned , I went to Hector because I knew him and I knew he 'd let me have a boat cheaply , and I 've used it since then — since the fifteenth — for pleasure , and now to come over and look my people up . |
| 13 | ‘ Would you like to come over and join us ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I played for their club when I was touring in Germany , and they volunteered to come over and help us whenever they could . |
| 15 | He says I 'll get her to come over and have a chat with you . |
| 16 | ‘ My relatives used to come over and say : ‘ There 's nothing in the shops ’ , and I thought it was ridiculous , because there was plenty , ’ a 47-year-old lathe operator from Dresden told me yesterday . |
| 17 | Neddy Fawcett , who was farming at West Birk Hatt in the days before it was flooded when the new reservoir opened , was very good with mechanical things and used to come over and try to make it start . |
| 18 | You 'll have to come over and pick me up though |
| 19 | ‘ He 's only just out of the sick bay himself , and he might fall over and open up that cut again . ’ |
| 20 | I mean you you might fall over and smash his precious organ or something |
| 21 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 86-7 ) seems to side with Palmer and Higgenbotham , for he maintains that the to infinitive evokes not a perception but rather a fact : The passive tends to be used in situations where the interest is not in perceptions but in impersonal facts — for example , in the testimony of a witness who says He was seen to stoop over and pick up some object , and then stuff it in his pocket . |
| 22 | He would burst into the office singing , and if I happened to be there he would rush over and ruffle my hair , and exclaim , ‘ Here she is , the wee lassie ! |
| 23 | If there were ever any youngsters in the bar she would rush over and start fussing over them and playing games with them . |
| 24 | Or of , of mixed age group , let's put it like that , er , I only mention it because things are going to fall over and go to bed , erm , and everyone else stays up again . |
| 25 | Mode 1 or ‘ standby mode ’ left one machine idle , waiting for its partner — supporting all the users — to fall over and die , at which point it would cut in . |
| 26 | ‘ She sends you her love and wants us to go over and stay with them . ’ |
| 27 | Laura was due to go over and stay with them in September . |
| 28 | ‘ I had to go over and get it in person . |
| 29 | Then if you both want to go to the hospital you ca n't somebody will have to be either graciously accept to go over and get the bedroom sorted |
| 30 | I think one of you lot 's gon na have to go over and join these three over here . |