Example sentences of "i came [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the same holiday I came across a sandy bank in a patch of sun — except that the patch was a dazzling blue .
2 I came across a striking example of this recently in the story of John Hyde nicknamed ‘ Praying Hyde ’ , a missionary to India early in this century .
3 until I came across a small display above bottles of castor oil , laxa suppositories and a well known laxative was a sign reduced for clearance !
4 During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species .
5 Herscovici says : ‘ At a Foundation in Madrid , I came across a fake Magritte which had been slipped into into an official exhibition so that it could be reproduced in the catalogue without my permission in order to achieve legitimacy .
6 Around that time I came across a dog-eared treatise on the 1968 student uprisings , in particular the LSE sit-in .
7 Beyond yet another bridge , for Victorian ingenuity had been hard at work here , I came across a torrential waterfall labelled ‘ salmon weir , .
8 So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead .
9 I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder .
10 Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies .
11 Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside .
12 At nine o'clock , after twelve miles , I came to a slippery escarpment , a cascade of sand tumbling five hundred feet to a plain which , in spite of a slight haze , I could see stretching some sixty miles south and west .
13 Separate from my parents in another country , I came to a new knowledge of me as a self apart .
14 Five hours later , after I had passed beneath a crudely-lettered blue notice board that welcomed travellers to the unpeopled jungle vastness of Darién , I came to a wooden sign that said simply ‘ Sante Fé ’ .
15 In my case you get pregnant at every verse end , cos I came of a big family you see , mm .
16 I came from a rough area so that 's the way it worked .
17 I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life .
18 I do n't come from an evangelical background , I came from a raw environment straight into the contentions of the Big Man and you could n't have been too extreme .
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