Example sentences of "he [vb past] come [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years later , a homosexual friend of Anne 's said that he had come across a man who looked like Dustin , who hung out in gay bars , telling everyone he was Dustin Hoffman . |
| 2 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 3 | He had come as a student of farming to this dairy , thinking he would be here only a short time . |
| 4 | Then it was as if he had come to a decision . ’ |
| 5 | Then , while shopping in Fore Street one morning , he was approached by Timothy Gedge , who smiled at him as though nothing untoward had occurred between them and asked if he had come to a decision about donating the curtains . |
| 6 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 7 | As he stared at her he knew that he had come to a crossroads , that if he gave in to her now he 'd have to give into her again and again and again . |
| 8 | When nothing happened , and he realised that he had come to a place without facilities , he retired for another consultation . |
| 9 | He might as well have descended on the Palace , announcing that he had come for a stay . |
| 10 | He was not the wife 's solicitor and yet , in the view of the Privy Council , he had come under a duty to safeguard her interests . |
| 11 | He had come from a bulk tanker that had tied up in the oil terminal in Kuwait harbour , thanked the Master who had allowed him to work his passage from the port of Perth , and gone ashore . |
| 12 | So under the surface of the thick glass lay a mass of long gold threads , filling in the whole cavity of the box with their turns and tumbles , so that at first the little tailor thought he had come upon a box full of spun gold , to make cloth of gold . |
| 13 | Once , years ago , he had come upon a hare struggling in an illegal snare . |
| 14 | The helmsboy then engaged full ahead , performed two pirouettes , and thundered back the way he had come in a cloud of blue exhaust smoke and coloured speech . |
| 15 | This time he had come within a stone of beating the Han . |