Example sentences of "come over from " 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 | Our older son had come over from San Francisco with his wife and the three children , so they were all here . |
| 4 | The Scots had come over from Ireland and colonised most of Galloway , Kintyre and Arran . |
| 5 | Kalchu 's younger brother had come over from his neighbouring hut and the two men sat spinning , talking and looking after the small children until their wives returned . |
| 6 | ‘ There y'ar , Sergeant Joe , ’ beamed Mrs Beavis , ‘ this young lady 's our new lodger , she 's just took the front room , she 's just come over from France . |
| 7 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 8 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 9 | Falling under the spell of an older , flamboyantly dressed and well-educated kinsman , Esme Stuart , who had come over from France , he was suspected of dangerously Papist leanings and of some unnatural sexual habits . |
| 10 | Gladstone would have come over from Hawarden , not far away . |
| 11 | I had already employed an attendant , Toril , who had come over from Norway at the end of July to help me during and after my move . |
| 12 | The Kleibers had come over from Germany some years before the war , and settled in Poplar . |
| 13 | Everyone was wandering around the house getting everything ready for my uncle who had come over from Nigeria . |
| 14 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 15 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 16 | The task of of carving through the English countryside was carried out by unskilled navvies , many of whom had come over from Ireland to earn a living . |
| 17 | Brooks 's curling drive brought an equally adept save from Carter , while Coleman 's thumping shot skimmed over — after Blissett had quick-wittedly overrun the ball as it came over from Shearer in one of the home team 's brightest moves . |
| 18 | I decided when I was 11 and I started doing drama at school , when I came over from New Zealand , that I wanted to be an actress . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Nearly every year , ’ Joseph recalled , ‘ the agent came over from Lapwai and ordered us on to the reservation . |
| 20 | Greg , Pippa , Emily , Tom and Bill all came over from America , and stayed with us for eight days . |
| 21 | On Saturday two boys came over from Eton . |
| 22 | My Dad came over from England to see how we were getting on . |
| 23 | Agbenugba confirms the similarities between his own experience and that of his protagonist , Akin : ‘ I came over from Nigeria in 1987 . |
| 24 | Occasionally , when she came over from England with Neil , they 'd go out and take a few pigeons on a Sunday morning , but his heart was n't in it . |
| 25 | THE Welsh Grand National is the next target for this progressive staying chaser , who came over from Ireland last year . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's worked so hard at his game and he 's much more involved than when he first came over from France . ’ |
| 27 | That 's the key message that came over from your answers to our November questionnaire . |
| 28 | Simon Keys came over from his job with the National Rivers Authority in Leeds and Julie Kent , working with the Industrial Ecology Research Centre at Liverpool University came over from this busy consultancy . |
| 29 | Simon Keys came over from his job with the National Rivers Authority in Leeds and Julie Kent , working with the Industrial Ecology Research Centre at Liverpool University came over from this busy consultancy . |
| 30 | Kate 's family came over from Ireland a long time ago and their closest contact to the soil is the odd spot of weekend gardening , but Kate associates closely with the dispossessed peasantry of old Ireland , and anywhere else for that matter , and taters brings out the culchie in her . |