Example sentences of "i came [prep] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was puzzling over how to solve this problem , I came across a paper written by a Harvard-based neurobiologist , Larry Benowitz , in the early 1970s . |
| 2 | More recently still , I came across a letter written in English , by the Kaiser to an American friend , dated nineteen twenty-five , in which he writes , erm ‘ The Jews must be exterminated in a pogrom covering the whole world . ’ |
| 3 | I came to a picture called ‘ Crocodile Pool ’ . |
| 4 | My attempts to look like a normal human being again were evidently not too successful — at one point in my journey , I came on a man crouching over a small brook from which he was trying to drink . |
| 5 | Retracing my steps to the town centre , I came upon a street named Harmony Hill , the title of a book of short stories by the late Richard Phibbs ( Curlew Press ) . |