Example sentences of "come across a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never had Berret come across a case with so many promising openings that led nowhere . |
| 2 | I 've come across a bit of architrave by the way . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nowhere in Eliot 's anthropological reading had he come across an example of a student of primitive civilization who had himself turned cannibal . |