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

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1 Meredith supposed Harriet would be fully committed socially over the Christmas period but she wanted to offer some token of hospitality , so she went across the road after breakfast and asked if Harriet would like to come over to lunch .
2 With this background of ‘ westernisation ’ it was considered natural to come over to England to complete my education .
3 I would also very much appreciate an opportunity to come over to Walford Manor , perhaps in August .
4 She showed immediate enthusiasm and , well , one thing led to another and before long I had invited her and her family to come over to Tintagel to meet Dawn and see her fly .
5 one of Mrs Tibbs 's boarders , ‘ an Irishman recently imported ’ who was ‘ in a perfectly wild state ; and had come over to England to be an apothecary , a clerk in a government office , an actor , a reporter , or anything else that turned up — he was not particular ’ .
6 Janina 's father was a Polish Jew who had come over to Britain to fight in the war .
7 The prince had come over to London to be married — from the house of Anna 's sister who was settled there — he hated every minute of it .
8 We could have come over to Bruges in the evening and dined together at the Duc de Bourgogne . ’
9 ‘ That 's why I came over to France .
10 In our bungalow we also have Sister Susan , a Franciscan Sister of Atonement , an order which began as Anglican at the turn of the century , and then came over to Rome .
11 He rose and came over to Grunte 's table .
12 About the same time TWW were looking for two journalists Ron Evans , a former journalist with the Empire News and the Sunday Times , had already joined the television company and he came over to Thomson House to check me out .
13 Kicking aside a couple of fleeing peasants , Richmann came over to Henri , a cold scowl on his face .
14 on one of the first days jostein flo came over to sheffield leeds was on the telly playing live and jostein and some other sheffield utd players was watching .
15 Susan often came over to Remaisnil for meetings .
16 ‘ She came over to America to promote her book pretending to be royal and it is all rubbish .
17 So that accelerated my own ideas and I came over to England with that in mind .
18 Formed in 1918 in Waco , Texas , the squadron had several American homes before it came over to England as part of NATO — moving to Upper Heyford in 1970 .
19 Isobel came over to Anna and said , ‘ I suppose this is all about Pricewell 's . ’
20 Wynne-Jones detached himself from the supporting arm and came over to Tallis .
21 After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human .
22 Indeed , as the Daurog elder scooped nuts and berries and held them out to his family , Holly-jack came over to Tallis and stretched her branch-tusked mouth into the semblance of a smile .
23 The boy came over to Tallis and began to work on her with a knife .
24 Pippin eluded him ( though some of his followers came over to Charles ) .
25 Thus Mary of Guise and cardinal Beaton fought for the support of lord Gray and lord Ruthven ; Beaton won the first , though in 1548 he came over to Mary ; two years after the cardinal 's death , Mary won the second .
26 As the party noise began to dominate the room , the hum of voices , glasses clinking , laughter from the old guard , who were not going to allow any tension to spoil their evening , Busacher came over to Therese .
27 He came over to Elisa .
28 I do n't know the reasons , I 'm only guessing , but the fact remains that a group captain , no less , came over to Bourn from Huntingdon to attend our squadron 's briefing , and then decided he wanted to go on the mission too .
29 When he had finished , Dr Jaffery rose to his feet , brushed the dust off his pyjamas and came over to Olivia and me .
30 ‘ There was nothing confidential about it : it was a bright idea some Americans had for setting up training courses — that sort of thing — for their businessmen and other people coming over to Britain for the first time .
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