Example sentences of "come across the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every therapist/healer , orthodox or otherwise , has come across the person who just does not get better — despite doing everything ‘ right ’ . |
| 2 | For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café . |
| 3 | Finally , because this book seeks to assist users of search in selecting a good headhunting firm for their particular needs , the survey asked how companies had come across the headhunters they had employed . |
| 4 | This was not the first time I had come across the concept of ‘ Quality ’ as meant in this context . |
| 5 | ‘ Whoever brought the message must have come across the wall , ’ Corbett murmured to himself . |
| 6 | You have heard about complex variables , and I believe you have come across the Cauchy-Riemann relationships . |
| 7 | The ball come across and er I see Bedford had his back to the goal , and I could see he was going to swivel and hit it with his left foot , and I 've just come across the goal and er , he just hit it down low to my right hand side and luckily I 've come the right way and pushed it wide . |
| 8 | I have never come across the problem of a horse licking the soil … although I have heard of eating droppings ( COPRAPHAGIA ) and other inedible things such as tree bark , afterbirth , dirt and bedding . |
| 9 | In the management of the Council 's Environment Award Scheme we have frequently come across the problem of schools needing practical advice and have assisted whenever possible . |
| 10 | It was the first time I had come across the word . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's certainly noisy , ’ said Gurder , who had never come across the word . |
| 12 | If you 've never come across the publication before , it is an essential purchase for any would-be freelance photographer and the well established alike . |
| 13 | Some readers will have come across the idea of expressing a simple relationship between an explanatory variable X and a response variable Y as Y = a + bX . |
| 14 | Most of you have probably come across the saying , the whole is greater than the sum of its parts . |
| 15 | He seems to have come across the article in the early weeks of 1953 , since in February he threatened a libel action if copies of the offending issue were not immediately destroyed . |
| 16 | ‘ As I 've travelled the universe , I 've come across the myths of many planets . |
| 17 | Anyone who has read a selection of cases concerned with jurisdiction will have come across the distinction drawn between want of jurisdiction and excess of jurisdiction . |
| 18 | I 've just come across the details of your interesting looking conference in Blois . |
| 19 | You 've come across the treble and the bass right ? |
| 20 | However , he never did , and friends claim the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 21 | However , he never did , and friends claim that the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 22 | We had come across the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway about to enjoy a ‘ Tank Engine ’ weekend of some kind . |
| 23 | I have come across the meadows to the place beneath the willows , where I will find the brook . |
| 24 | Turn to a risk-taking , entrepreneurial company and you are likely to come across the converse of the structure theme : |
| 25 | He was , he said , one of that small group of political eccentrics who browsed around the dustbins of policy hoping occasionally to come across the word ‘ science ’ : |
| 26 | One day I happened to come across the work of the Italian still-life painter Giorgio Morandi . |
| 27 | ‘ Aye , he used to look out for his dad 's cart on a Saturday at about 4.45 and he 'd wait for it to come across the line there . |
| 28 | The amateur collector is most likely to come across the cycad foliage , with its characteristic narrow central rib and flat leaflets . |
| 29 | The body bold to come across the clearings and at last the the fox is really there . |
| 30 | Before he could conceal himself again , Mandru 's voice came across the space between them . |