Example sentences of "had come [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I would hear conversations about the war when some of the older men in the dale came to chat and have a cup of tea in the kitchen with Uncle Tommy , who had come to take over Low Birk Hatt after Father died . |
| 2 | Women had come to take over men 's jobs as platform , goods , and parcel-porters , ticket-collectors , and engine cleaners . |
| 3 | Victoria had been playing gin rummy with her , and Shelley had come to take over . |
| 4 | In the eighth century , as the Franks had imposed their domination over those they called " subject peoples " , Frankish kings had come to rule over many regna , not only far west as well as east of the Rhine , but beyond the Alps and beyond the Pyrenees . |
| 5 | Another American writer , Walter Lippmann , argued that in the liberal democracies " mass opinion " had come to dominate over governments , and that this represented " a functional derangement of the relationship between the mass of the people and the government " . |