Example sentences of "he [verb] over to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the Collector continued about his business , Dr McNab asked him to come over to the window for a moment . |
| 2 | She watched him go over to the coffee-machine hissing on a cabinet near one of the windows , saw him deftly take cups and saucers from a cupboard . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 4 | He limped over to the window , pulled the curtains across and looked down . |
| 5 | I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it . |
| 6 | He goes over to the bedside table and pours a glass of water . |
| 7 | The next year he moved over to the Alfa team , but could score only three points in a car whose engines rarely survived a race . |
| 8 | He moved over to the door control panel , which now glowed red for locked . |
| 9 | He moved over to the window of his office and looked out . |
| 10 | He moved over to the other side of the office and had begun searching through a well-stocked bookshelf when the phone on his desk rang close by Folly 's hand . |
| 11 | Athelstan stood for a moment in disbelief , then he moved over to the other bed post : there , in the centre , the artist had etched a life-like horse . |
| 12 | He moved over to the window and looked out across rain-driven Wimbledon . |
| 13 | He moved over to the dungeon door to prevent anyone from escaping . |
| 14 | Taking his time , he moved over to the door and paused . |
| 15 | He bounded over to the chest containing the strange white powder . |
| 16 | He wandered over to the draining-board and looked into a jug . |
| 17 | He wandered over to the door . |
| 18 | He wandered over to the table . |
| 19 | With a tired shrug , he wandered over to the window and stared out at the grounds . |
| 20 | He wandered over to the far wall . |
| 21 | Isabel obeyed , watching in trepidation as he paced over to the door , then back to the fireplace . |
| 22 | He strolled over to the little Park Police Station among the trees . |
| 23 | He strolled over to the window , lit his cigar , stared down as plain-clothes policemen hurried across the courtyard one storey below . |
| 24 | He strolled over to the blackboard . |
| 25 | He strolled over to the nag and slapped her gently . |
| 26 | The reporter thanked him , and the camera tracked him as he trudged over to the other members of the team and they headed together towards a dark crack in the hillside . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He came over to the bed and stood , tall and powerfully attractive , looking down at her . |
| 30 | No he came over to the study , he came over to the study and he said er he comes in and he goes |