Example sentences of "come over from the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | That 's why I 've come over from the States , ’ Howard said . |
3 | The purely Chinese came over from the mainland with Chiang Kai-Shek . ’ |
4 | And was there one came over from the top ? |
5 | Lisbon purchased a new ground and in 1924 built a first-class pavilion as visiting sides started coming over from the UK . |
6 | as if guessing the trend of his sister 's thoughts , Aubrey said suddenly , ‘ One of my great friends , Harry Keynes , is coming over from the United States next week , Dunbar . |
7 | There 's a poster beside one of the machines — ‘ DO N'T DISREGARD — REPLACE THE GUARD ’ , it says … you have to laugh — there are no guards , they were taken off the machines to up the production , they only put them on when the big bosses are coming over from the States to inspect the place — the place really gets cleaned up then . |
8 | It was coming over from the Empire , the colonies , as you know , and masses of grain coming in from America and Canada . |
9 | For example : You see like , the parents who come over from the West Indies , they try and teach their children this attitude " you 're English , you was born here , so you must talk the right and proper way , so you must n't talk like that " , but then after a time , as you get older , they do n't really worry about it too much . |
10 | Boats come over from the mainland about three times a day and in total we get about 9000 visitors a year , including 2000 schoolchildren . |