Example sentences of "come over [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They used to come over for the spud-picking and go to Ormskirk and live in a bothy and would come to Scotland Place because there were so many wakes .
2 Do you want to come over to the bungalow and sort this bedroom out or
3 Before the Collector continued about his business , Dr McNab asked him to come over to the window for a moment .
4 So , the only reason for her writing was to say that if he ever did get the chance to come over to the UK again , well , she 'd like — well , it would be nice …
5 To her surprise he offered to come over to the office .
6 ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself …
7 Aung San got through a message that he was ready to come over to the Allies while the Japanese understood that he would be fighting for them .
8 I can never forget how he used to come over in the evening from Bembridge School to sit with me after my son died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-seven , only eight months after his marriage .
9 Are you giving me a lift or will I arrange to come over in the office ?
10 but give them in the morning cos we 've got to come over in the morning have n't we ?
11 Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte .
12 Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast .
13 He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post .
14 She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life .
15 That 's why I 've come over from the States , ’ Howard said .
16 Most came over during the period 1955 to 1963 and took what work was commonly available ( the vast majority were unqualified academically ) .
17 Between them , the Quakers and the Christian Council looked after about twenty per cent of those who came over on the Kindertransporte .
18 ‘ It was about 8.30am and I was just getting dressed when it came over on the news , ’ said Mr Tyson , a former clerk of works at Harrow council , London .
19 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 .
20 Mavis laid her knitting aside and came over to the bed , where , to my redoubled annoyance , she sat down and took my hands .
21 He came over to the bed , holding up his hand to shade his eyes from the bedside light , and peering almost comically close , so that Tessa could smell the whisky on his breath .
22 He came over to the bed and stood , tall and powerfully attractive , looking down at her .
23 Apparently finding what he wanted , he came over to the sofa on the other side of the low coffee-table that was all that stood between them , threw himself down among the cushions and started to read .
24 Despite these important responsibilities the relationship that came over to the objectors was one of cosy acquiescence between these bureaucracies and the nuclear industry .
25 ‘ But not for long and I never came over to the Yamacraw .
26 In the same year he became the chairman of the radical Green Ribbon Club , but he briefly and secretly came over to the court interest .
27 Mary came over to the bar , on that the two men stopped talking and smiled at her .
28 The woman came over to the fence and put her hand out to me .
29 The gendarme came over to the table and began a long address to Lambert , who listened politely , commenting ‘ Peut-être ’ , from time to time .
30 Lizzie was waiting for him one morning when the waitress came over to the table .
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