Example sentences of "[pron] come over [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 For these reasons it is the delightful little Concerto which comes over with the greatest conviction though the recording acoustic is far too resonant for the essentially intimate character of the writing ; and the sound in general affords too much prominence to the continuo which booms away in a far from discreet manner .
2 Between them , the Quakers and the Christian Council looked after about twenty per cent of those who came over on the Kindertransporte .
3 When I told Constanza , she who has a memory for these things said , ‘ Good Lord , not M. J. Devaux who came over with the French team after the war ? ’
4 The 24 runners included six from the site Fire Brigade , bravely running in their waterproof overtrousers and braces , and two from CSD 's Brussels staff who came over for the occasion .
5 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 .
6 You come over on the Sunday evening because we do start prompt at eight thirty on the Monday morning .
7 And was there one came over from the top ?
8 We come over before the Summer , before the barbecues ,
9 Before the Collector continued about his business , Dr McNab asked him to come over to the window for a moment .
10 Donal Lunny came down , and Gerry O'Beirne and Mary Custy and Eoin O'Neill , my sister Mary , and Adam Calyton , Mike Scott and Steve Wickham had been over in Spiddal at the time , working with John , so they came over for the crack .
11 They came over in the summer and at half-term and I 'll be in England for Christmas .
12 He came over to the bed , holding up his hand to shade his eyes from the bedside light , and peering almost comically close , so that Tessa could smell the whisky on his breath .
13 Apparently finding what he wanted , he came over to the sofa on the other side of the low coffee-table that was all that stood between them , threw himself down among the cushions and started to read .
14 He came over to the bed and stood , tall and powerfully attractive , looking down at her .
15 No he came over to the study , he came over to the study and he said er he comes in and he goes
16 No he came over to the study , he came over to the study and he said er he comes in and he goes
17 And erm there 's a lot they 've they 've they 've done some television work on him and anyway er in nineteen O three , he came over in the you know about in nineteen hundred with his family and I 've got a picture of them in that 's where he came from in .
18 Milwall have the lead that 's the important thing here it came over at the far side of the penalty area , had got up for it Ray and the Kennedy there was also a Middlesbrough foot in there .
19 ‘ It was about 8.30am and I was just getting dressed when it came over on the news , ’ said Mr Tyson , a former clerk of works at Harrow council , London .
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