Example sentences of "come over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before returning to England he was asked to persuade Gladstone to come over for the 1878 Yale ‘ commencement ’ but he would plead in vain . |
| 2 | They used to come over for the spud-picking and go to Ormskirk and live in a bothy and would come to Scotland Place because there were so many wakes . |
| 3 | Later , when they realised Japan 's true intentions , Aung San and the small Burmese army , backed by an underground movement , decided to come over to the British , a very courageous step when you realise their numbers , and their limited arms . |
| 4 | Before the Collector continued about his business , Dr McNab asked him to come over to the window for a moment . |
| 5 | Aung San got through a message that he was ready to come over to the Allies while the Japanese understood that he would be fighting for them . |
| 6 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself … |
| 7 | To her surprise he offered to come over to the office . |
| 8 | So , the only reason for her writing was to say that if he ever did get the chance to come over to the UK again , well , she 'd like — well , it would be nice … |
| 9 | Do you want to come over to the bungalow and sort this bedroom out or |
| 10 | I can never forget how he used to come over in the evening from Bembridge School to sit with me after my son died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-seven , only eight months after his marriage . |
| 11 | Are you giving me a lift or will I arrange to come over in the office ? |
| 12 | but give them in the morning cos we 've got to come over in the morning have n't we ? |
| 13 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 14 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 15 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 16 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That 's why I 've come over from the States , ’ Howard said . |
| 19 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 20 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
| 21 | Most came over during the period 1955 to 1963 and took what work was commonly available ( the vast majority were unqualified academically ) . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Between them , the Quakers and the Christian Council looked after about twenty per cent of those who came over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 24 | Her ancestors came over on the legendary vessel . |
| 25 | 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 ? ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Wiping her hands on her pinny April came over to the sink . |
| 28 | Despite these important responsibilities the relationship that came over to the objectors was one of cosy acquiescence between these bureaucracies and the nuclear industry . |
| 29 | As the train slowed down , Sam came over to the fireman 's side and looked out and seeing nothing , suddenly realised the legend of the bridge . |
| 30 | Mary came over to the bar , on that the two men stopped talking and smiled at her . |