Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] over from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone gathered together in the room next to our barrack room for meals , which were brought over from the main kitchens somewhere else in the citadel . |
| 2 | The mass-produced ceramic drainpipes , which were perhaps its most important contribution to agriculture , were buried , the wire-netting and barbed wire which was to take over from walls , hedges and wooden fencing , confined to the ranges of Australia and the United States , corrugated iron hardly yet emancipated from the railroads in connection with which it had been developed . |
| 3 | Two other drugs were introduced in the sixteenth century , ‘ China root ’ , an extract of Smilax sinensis , which was brought over from Goa by the Portuguese , and sarsaparilla from Sassafras officinale , an American plant . |
| 4 | He had played that part well , certainly at least as well as the actor who was to take over from him . |
| 5 | He lifted a hand off his cup in weary salute to one of his sergeants. a very dark Scot in a crumpled grey suit who was walking over from the counter , and the man altered course to sit opposite him . |
| 6 | He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know . |
| 7 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 8 | More like jewellery than cheap baubles , they were left over from a Christmas long ago . |
| 9 | They were left over from last night . ’ |
| 10 | It was coming over from the Empire , the colonies , as you know , and masses of grain coming in from America and Canada . |
| 11 | was he , he was coming over from er South Africa ai n't he , on fourth of April , me mum 's eighty on first of April and he 's coming on fourth . |
| 12 | Then , finally , came supper , which was really what was left over from lunch : cold meat , salad and cheese , and more wine . |