Example sentences of "i came [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Around that time I came across a dog-eared treatise on the 1968 student uprisings , in particular the LSE sit-in . |
6 | Beyond yet another bridge , for Victorian ingenuity had been hard at work here , I came across a torrential waterfall labelled ‘ salmon weir , . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Separate from my parents in another country , I came to a new knowledge of me as a self apart . |
13 | 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 ’ . |
14 | In my case you get pregnant at every verse end , cos I came of a big family you see , mm . |
15 | I came from a rough area so that 's the way it worked . |
16 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
17 | 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 . |