Example sentences of "come across [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed strange to me that many dead Germans we had come across in the built-up areas after leaving the landing beaches yesterday morning had no boots on , some were even minus socks . |
| 2 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 3 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 4 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 5 | He looked inquiringly at Narouz and then came across to the two men , bowed and shook hands . |
| 6 | Rose McKenna came across to the other woman , sitting on the arm of the chair , holding her hand . |
| 7 | The Colonel , from his open air headquarters on the beach , called over reinforcements from the Maaloy Group and Peter Young , with 18 men of his No.6 Troop , came across to the rock-shielded beach where Group 2 had landed some two hours before . |
| 8 | In the second half Leeds looked slightly better but almost went 2–1 down when poor marking let one the Crewe forwards in with a chance , the ball came across from the right wing and the bloke had a shot at goal from about 12 yards out that only just missed . |
| 9 | ‘ I felt guilty enough to want to help the marriage succeed because I 'd introduced them and had n't thought to warn Rachel , mainly because I did n't find him attractive myself and he 'd never come across as the great seducer with me , and I knew that if it did n't work , it would turn out to be a lifelong trap for her . |
| 10 | So who were the Cagots , other , similar allusions to whom you will also come across in the western Pyrenees ? |
| 11 | They come across as the same songs although they do n't sound as huge and magnificent and lush as they do on the record . |
| 12 | But almost half the vehicles they come across on the hard shoulder have stopped because there are no services . |
| 13 | Eliot comes across as the sad man who sees double , as a living embodiment of the proposition that the double has to do with pain and with relief from pain , with the search , in such circumstances , for someone other . |
| 14 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |