Example sentences of "i come [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a miscellaneous pile of documents , I came across the following essay . |
| 2 | I came across the expected pitch ’ below the wedged boulders , which Wainwright describes as ‘ The one difficulty , above which is nothing but simple scrambling to the top . ’ |
| 3 | It 's his age that is against him , but he 's helped me a great deal since I came into the Irish squad . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school . |
| 5 | It was only 5.30 pm when I came into the main hospital building , but a cheeky nurse said ‘ Bon soir , Miss Veness , parlez-vous Francaise ? |
| 6 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 7 | A quiver of anguish passed along my spine as I came to the last dish . |
| 8 | I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham . |
| 9 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 10 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
| 11 | I came to the rapid conclusion that anyone tackling it must be either incredibly brave , extremely stupid — or both ! |
| 12 | Then I came to the fourth floor landing and Toby 's door opened and there he was . |
| 13 | I came to the braided reaches of the river where it swung out over the sands , and adjusted my steps so that I cleared all the channels easily and cleanly , a leap at a time . |
| 14 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |
| 15 | I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’ |
| 16 | As a Lower boy at the time I came before the Lower Master . |
| 17 | When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer . |
| 18 | Indeed , once , shortly after lunch , I recall I came upon the two gentlemen talking rather furtively just inside the library doorway , and it was my distinct impression they broke off their discussion upon my approach . |
| 19 | Then when I came near the broken house and stood in the moon shadow I could hear and see nothing . |
| 20 | Well I 'll be quite honest with you , when I came in the other day you had a couple and I 'm amazed that you 've still got them . |
| 21 | when I came in the other day , I might have a look now actually get some Chewitts for the kids go on looking something for myself |
| 22 | ‘ I came in the same van as someone called Gleeson , ’ said Marcus . |
| 23 | I came from the very opposite . |
| 24 | ‘ Have I come to the right place ? ’ |
| 25 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 26 | just tw okay now , just keep , stand here and tell me when I come to the good bit . |
| 27 | Now I come to the main task of all . ’ |
| 28 | I come to the two-metre-high brick wall which surrounds the estate and feel my way along it , stumbling over piles of earth and building debris until I get to the corner . |
| 29 | Erm have I come to the wrong place then ? |
| 30 | I mean , I keep hearing that when I come into the environmental health department , that , just that people are interested in what Oxford are doing . |