Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] over to " in BNC.

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1 This day I was motored over to Burghclere to see Stanley Spencer 's mural paintings which he is now working on in the Memorial Chapel built for the plans of the pictures he has in mind .
2 As I was walking over to the piano I was thinking , ‘ Should I really be doing this ? ’
3 Yeah he 's always putting When I was going over to Royals .
4 Mrs Bradshaw did n't want a drink because she was going over to Mrs Warburton 's flat to play bridge .
5 Bernadette : With my other babies they 've mostly left them quite close to me , but she was put over to the side , the doctor was slow in coming , and she went over and checked her over , instead of coming to speak to me as they usually do — she went out again and did n't even look at me [ laughs ] …
6 While she was driven over to Greenwich to interview Maggie Parkin , the superintendent sent him back to Scotland Yard to harry the forensic science laboratories over the bloodstains on the pair of scissors .
7 So we was er called out at nine o'clock on the Sunday morning transport was laid on and we was taken over to , to fire in woods at Fradley , the other side of Lichfield .
8 The final destruction of the road 's equilibrium took place when it was given over to high speed travel by car .
9 Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes .
10 Following its days of silk production , it was turned over to piano making , and became known as the Evans Piano Factory .
11 However , work on the War Time Operational Expert System was continued until it was passed over to another Branch and , of course , I have continued to sponsor the work on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid since this was my own MSc project .
12 It was handed over to the National Trust in 1956 .
13 In fact , in the early Merovingian period it seems to have been held by the rulers of the eastern kingdom , but after Sigibert I 's murder in 575 half of it was handed over to Guntram , presumably to cement an alliance between the young Childebert II and his uncle .
14 On his surrender Noriega was transported by helicopter to the nearby Howard Air Force Base in Panama , and there he was turned over to representatives of the US Drug Enforcement Agency .
15 He was driving over to Liverpool to score and had the youngest lad with him .
16 He was handed over to the terribly liberal ( sorry , I think that should be liberally terrible ) dictator by Mr David Steel , hard-line leader of a British political grouping engaged in the notorious Lib-Lab pact , at a time when Ceausescu was still wildly popular .
17 He was handed over to local army units and then driven around in an armoured car for three days to prevent Securitate units discovering his whereabouts .
18 Refused by all , he doggedly returned to Scotland and carried on guerilla warfare until , captured by further treachery , he was handed over to the English by the sheriff of Dumbarton .
19 He was handed over to the British army and sent back to England .
20 He was quickly driven to Damascus where he was handed over to the US chargé d'affaires , John Craig .
21 There was an embarrassing moment when I thought he was walking over to me to begin the programme and I got up to greet him .
22 ‘ He said he was going over to O'Neill 's for an hour . ’
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