come up to
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So sometimes Harry Potter fans will come up to me and say something, and I will look at them blankly.
“I was just coming up to find you. I wanted to hear about your simulation.”
From Literature
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“I haven’t been able to leave my house once in the last few years without someone coming up to me,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
Then, one day, at an event this man came up to me.
From BBC
Repeating his first attempt by just coming up to her and saying hello didn’t seem wise.
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