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Example sentences for "went over"

  • When Sam left, I went over to the cigar stand, pulled out my order book and figured about long enough to add up a bill.

  • When I had opened up my line," continued my friend, "I went over to Williams' store.

  • I went over to him, supposing he was a fellow traveling man.

  • I went over to see the man who had taken Hodges' old stand.

  • I went over to the bank where the old man had been, and in a few minutes sold them some bonds.

  • After leaving the school, went over to the booths to buy some trifle as a memorial of Knock.

  • I think it rained every day of the days I remained at Cong except the blink of sunshine that shone on the castle and grounds the day that I went over part of the Ashford demesne.

  • Soon after this Mr. Banks and I went over to the South* (* This should be North.

  • Into this Harbour are 2 inlets, or openings in the Reef, about 1 1/2 Miles from each other.

  • A Fresh breeze from the Westward all this day, which being right in our teeth, we kept beating to windward with all the sail we could Crowd, but instead of Gaining we lost ground.

  • As we run in we keept the lead going, and had from 40 to 12 fathoms.

  • Little wind and Variable between the South-West and North-West.

  • We went over it capitally; the surface was absolutely smooth, without a sign of fissure or hole anywhere.

  • When we had completed all this repacking and had everything ready, two of us went over to Mount Betty, and collected as many different specimens of rock as we could lay our hands on.

  • We went over to the entrance of the hut and raised the trap-door; a dazzling light met my eyes.

  • As each man got his dogs tied up, he went over to the meat-tent and took a box of cut-up seal meat, which stood on the wall out of the dogs' reach.

  • The effect of the open space between the two crusts was that the ground under our feet sounded unpleasantly hollow as we went over it.

  • He went over to the bench and sat down to wait.

  • She picked up Janice's lunch tray and she and Janice went over to the other side of the cafeteria.

  • The adults were talking about things that didn't seem to have anything to do with building bridges, so he went over to talk to Jason.

  • He went over to the table where Jason was and sat down and started getting his lunch out.

  • He went over to the fireplace, where I was putting his coffee to keep it hot, and looked down at me.

  • I went over cautiously to one of the windows, wading in deep snow to get there--and if you have ever done that in a pair of bedroom slippers you can realize the state of my mind--and looked in.

  • I went over to the fire and emptied my bedroom slippers of snow.

  • But he went over to the table and picked up his glass of spring water, only to set it down untasted.

  • He went over to the slot-machine and stood in front of it, humming and trying the different combinations.

  • Then he went over to his trunk and looked over its contents.

  • He went over to the bundles he had brought, undoing one of them.

  • When we went over it we must have been going forty miles an hour, and I could see the perspiration come out on Henderson.

  • They had one in the jail, and Fox and I went over to see him.

  • About every boy, including myself, went over to see the affair.

  • In the evening I went over to an all-night lunch-house in Printing House Square in a basement--Oliver's.

  • He went over to the window and looked out.

  • He went over to the window and stood there, his hands clasped behind him, staring out into the street with unseeing eyes.

  • Tidemand gathered his papers together and went over to Ole's office.

  • But on receiving intelligence of an insurrection in Illyricum [319], he went over to superintend the management of that new war, which proved the most serious of all the foreign wars since the Carthaginian.

  • And when, upon a division of the house, he went over to the minority, nobody followed him.

  • And he went over to what had been Arabian's portrait, and gazed at the hole which surmounted the magnificent torso.

  • He went over to the windows, drew down the blinds, pulled forward the curtains.

  • He went over to a distant easel, pulled it forward with its back to them, then, when it was near to the sofa, turned it round.

  • Then she went to the sofa where her muff was lying, drew out the letter that was in it, went over to the fireplace and threw the letter into the flames.

  • He went over to the Spanish cabinet and brought out of it a flagon of old English glass ware, soda-water, and three tall tulip-shaped glasses with long stems.

  • He brushed it away with his grimy hand and went over to the bed, rolling the inert figure toward him till the face was in plain view.

  • Cause he's just started, got all the directions for the way, went over it carefully with his valet.

  • Then I ransacked every corner to assure myself that I had left nothing behind, and as I could not find anything, went over to the window and looked out.

  • And in all seriousness, and with much ceremony I went over to the stretcher and lay down.

  • I went over to a man staring into a shop-window, and asked him in great haste what, according to his opinion, should one give a man who had been starving for a long time.

  • I went over to a lamp-post, counted it, weighed it in my hand, and smiled.

  • Once again I raised myself from the window, went over to the washing-stand, and sprinkled some water on the shiny knees of my trousers to dull them a little and make them look a trifle newer.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "went over" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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