Example sentences of "[noun prp] come over [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What falls less easily into place is the judgment about relative importance , urgency , contemporary relevance , nearness to reality ; because Raskolnikov comes over as a very grand and accessible conception , a nineteenth-century bohemian Hamlet was one way of putting it , whereas Verkhovensky is just a wrecker . |
| 2 | Alfred Molina 's Shannon comes over as an assemblage of mannerisms rather than a man whose behaviour arises from dissipation and anguish ; Frances Barber is too young , too wiry and too busy for the over-ripe Maxine ; Robin Bailey , though he believably slips in and out of awareness , is too sturdy for the ancient poet , and he sounds and gestures just like colonel Hall on Sergeant Bilko . |
| 3 | Arghatun came over with an aide called Hodai , and they stood and grinned and Rostov flexed the bow experimentally . |
| 4 | As the train slowed down , Sam came over to the fireman 's side and looked out and seeing nothing , suddenly realised the legend of the bridge . |
| 5 | Before returning to England he was asked to persuade Gladstone to come over for the 1878 Yale ‘ commencement ’ but he would plead in vain . |
| 6 | Mary came over to the bar , on that the two men stopped talking and smiled at her . |
| 7 | Mrs Robins comes over as a cold , strict woman who was for ever giving orders . |
| 8 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 9 | This unsensitivity aside , though , George comes over as a pretty decent bloke who simply got fed up with his celebrity status . |
| 10 | This unsensitivity aside , though , George comes over as a pretty decent bloke who simply got fed up with his celebrity status . |
| 11 | Wiping her hands on her pinny April came over to the sink . |
| 12 | In an uproarious performance , Finney comes over like a Mancunian Tigger , insufferably bouncy and crassly insensitive . |
| 13 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |