Example sentences of "come across a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It wo n't be the first time that people who think they 're in the fast track come across a roadblock and are overtaken by people in what was falsely described as the slow track . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hayling had come across a man called Chris Walsh who was already getting funds from the GLC for his latest , faltering , business enterprise , a Third World Development unit based in Highbury , North London . |
| 4 | Katie 's come across a problem she 's got too many bits , so she 's going to go up and along , this time she 's |
| 5 | Never had Berret come across a case with so many promising openings that led nowhere . |
| 6 | A number of marriage counsellors I have spoken to all agree that they have never in fact come across a case where infidelity has improved a marriage . |
| 7 | However , it does have once scene of interest when the band come across a village occupied by South Vietnamese soldiers and an American advisor . |
| 8 | I 've come across a bit of architrave by the way . |
| 9 | Quite by chance in collecting material for I have come across a cousin who is the communications and Public relations person at so I am to put them in touch with each other as the one in London has just had a letter from another in Vancouver trying to do family research . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This year I have come across a group using a bothy as a base from which to run mountain walking courses . |
| 12 | Many people have had experiences of déjà vu , when they have come across a place which they are able to describe in precise detail even though they know they have never been there before . |
| 13 | Access is easy , for although the car parks are few , they are strategically placed , and I 've not yet come across a walker with tales of local farmers barring the way . |
| 14 | Not long after the nomes moved into the quarry a fox was surprised and delighted to come across a couple of unwary berry-gatherers , which it ate . |
| 15 | On a good day you might happen to come across a man taking his dog for exercise . |
| 16 | The main body of these superb watercolours is of more recent vintage and runs the whole gamut of the seasons it is refreshing to come across a trio of such shivery snowscapes as Deep Snow , Upleatham ( 28 ) , Road into Guisborough ( 78 ) and Tocketts Farm in Snow Guisborough ( 22 ) . |
| 17 | David Profumo ( Daily Telegraph ) did not seem to take it very seriously : ‘ Unless your literary menu is gamier than most , it is rare to come across a novel in which the author-narrator claims to have sodomised one of his own female characters . |
| 18 | I 've yet to come across a school anywhere in the country that has n't welcomed the opportunity to play host to a pair of teachers . |
| 19 | We are very unlikely to come across a headline telling us that a member of the Anglican Church has killed himself ( unless , perhaps , it is a vicar ) — in fact , the Anglican 's religious affiliation is one of the last things likely to be mentioned in a report . |
| 20 | IT IS pretty rare to come across a football manager brave enough to hold up his hands the day after a beating and invite criticism . |
| 21 | In such discourses , what can be specified about the sender is often justifiably taken for granted , because the student has experience of these discourse types in his or her own language : in the modern world we are unlikely to come across a student who does not have some idea of the nature of news or fiction , and the sort of relationship entered into with the senders . |
| 22 | My dear Mrs Goreng , I felt like saying , you would have been surprised to come across a hotelier who 'd read Thomas Mann . |
| 23 | If you are like me , and feel hopelessly inadequate having toiled to the top of your favourite peak in what seemed to be ‘ the worst weather I 've seen for years , ’ only to come across a party equipped with jeans , trainers , and Tescos bags , then the Mourne Mountains are for you . |
| 24 | The fact is that in the world of switch-mode power supplies ( and it is a very large world indeed , covering PCB , mainframe computers , electronic telephone exchanges , military equipment , aerospace , and more besides ) it is rare to come across a Cuk converter . |
| 25 | I have yet to come across a police officer who is not interested in stamping out racism . ’ |
| 26 | As for the WRI files , I 've yet to come across a shareware program that has n't an ASCII file as well as a WRI file — and you do n't HAVE to print it . |
| 27 | Sinead 's father John saw the progressive school in Waterford as a last chance for his wayward daughter and for the first time in her life she came across a school where she had nothing to rebel against . |
| 28 | Naturally he was very happy when I was able to tell him that I recently came across a couple of cases of them we did n't know we had . |
| 29 | A little later , Emily was looking through her accounts and came across a bill for French calf ; thoughtfully , she turned it over in her hands , Hari would need to buy the calf too and the usual practice was to pay for it at the end of the month . |
| 30 | After a while they came across a herd of buffaloes . |