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

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1 I had already come into conflict over race and patriotism .
2 Since then they had come into contact over one or two smaller matters , and it was to him that Greg naturally went in the aftermath of Hilda Machin 's death .
3 They were on exactly the same wavelength as Massim d'Azeglio who said , after Italy had been politically unified : ‘ We have made Italy , now we have to make Italians ’ , that is out of the inhabitants of the peninsula who had all sorts of identities , but not one based on a language they did not speak , and a state that had come into existence over their heads .
4 The Whig and Tory groupings had come into existence over a particular crisis , and although that crisis was not about just one issue — Exclusion — it was the case that the parties polarised over how they thought the crisis could be resolved .
5 UK HOTELS have once again come under fire over the amounts they charge for telephone calls .
6 ( The British land policy in India was to come to grief over this dilemma . )
7 Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ?
8 ‘ At present anyone who deals with sexual abuse is going to come across people over whose dead bodies they are going to continue to work , ’ she says .
9 Mr Major came under fire over his pledge to Euro-rebels in the Commons he will not ratify the controversial Maastricht Treaty until next year .
10 We topped a crest among the pines , and the distant flat roof of the house came into sight over the sea of trees ahead .
11 Another factor which made Russian foreign policy different in kind from that of the other Great Powers in 1880 was that , like Great Britain ( with whom she often came into conflict over them ) , she had great extra-European interests , both in the Far East and central Asia , where her territories , influence and commerce had been growing steadily for twenty years .
12 During June 1991 Walesa came into conflict over the new electoral law with the Sejm , which was still dominated by ex-communist deputies ( in the 1989 elections 65 per cent of seats had been guaranteed to PUWP ( communist ) members — see p. 36723 ) .
13 In part , the impetus for reform came from concern over the efficiency of the long-established regulatory regimes and , in particular , a belief that many self-regulatory systems may have evolved into restrictive practices dressed up to be in the public interest .
14 There was a local tradition that Gloucester and the Stanleys came to blows over the division of authority , and their continuing rivalry may lie behind a royal command in 1476 that the tenants of Congleton should attend ‘ only upon the king 's highness and in his absence upon the lord Stanley ’ .
15 Great dinosaurs were excavated from the American west while it was still ‘ wild ’ — early fossil-hunters had to contend with hostile Indians and sometimes came to blows over possession of the richest sites .
16 I remember we came to blows over the Queen Mother thing .
17 There was a local tradition that Gloucester and the Stanleys came to blows over the division of authority , and their continuing rivalry may lie behind a royal command in 1476 that the tenants of Congleton should attend ‘ only upon the king 's highness and in his absence upon the lord Stanley ’ .
18 Nordhausen and Albert Goodenache were coming into view over the horizon .
19 and there 's a white one coming in look over the end of the jetty there
20 Coming from Brigflatts over Birks we passed through woods below Sedbergh School where a quiet lane took us towards Millthrop .
21 A number of working groups have been set up by the Council to look at these matters , but the truth is that the whole curriculum approach is rendered horrendously difficult by the subject structure and by the inevitable fact that the various subject working party reports are coming on stream over a period of at least four to five years .
22 ‘ These two ventures , along with the expected announcement of first gas from one of our recent discoveries in Colombia , are just the first of many exciting projects we expect to see come to fruition over the next year or so , ’ Chris told Pipeline .
23 American sports particularly stand out when it comes to style over content .
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