Example sentences of "[noun sg] i came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COUPLE of weeks ago in the busy London evening rush hour I came across Britain 's hardest-working Royal travelling to another demanding job . |
| 2 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 3 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 4 | An outspoken individualist , Sandy never left anyone in doubt about his views , and when as a newspaper editor I came under governmental pressure from time to time , Sandy was usually the first to phone his support with disdainful disregard of the fact that the telephones were tapped by the state security police . |
| 5 | At least it was recognisably the same track and the same inn I came to . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're all from the ospedale — the same orphanage I came from . ’ |
| 7 | Erm and given the wide range of densities , the only conclusion I came to was I should accept forty three workers per hectare . |
| 8 | ‘ Tosca was the first score I came to grips with , and what a score ! |
| 9 | In a remnant of old forest I came on some grazing deer and quickly dropped to ground and crawled in under a small bank where I was able to stay out of sight , out of smell , and enjoy a very good look at the herd . |
| 10 | ‘ And one day I came across this tiny cottage . |
| 11 | The day I came for the job . |
| 12 | I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham . |
| 13 | Last night I came to school to look for a book , and I found a musician ! … -But Tony learns very quickly . |
| 14 | Suddenly , Damian said thickly , ‘ The night I came to your flat in London , you fell into the door with Radcliffe . |
| 15 | That 's my first station I came to Zurich . |
| 16 | And when I came , erm , the first , first month I came to Brussels I thought oh . |
| 17 | Last week I came to this school to discuss the course with the Head . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One morning I came into the Cabinet Room rather early and found the Cabinet secretary , Sir Norman Brook … changing all our places . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
| 22 | ‘ I know all that , ’ I began to feel angry and frustrated , ‘ but Goddammit , the only reason I came to this island was because of my interest in polio . |
| 23 | The only reason I came in here was that I was on my way into town when your boys called and they said it would be quicker if I came in to see you . |
| 24 | Back on the path I came to the " chasm " said by many geologists to be a collapsed cave system and suggested by others more recently to have been carved out of a weakness in the limestone by the raging melting ice waters of a glacier . |
| 25 | In the end I came to a good old British compromise . |
| 26 | And one situation I came across as a consequence of the N H S reforms , was nurses on a maternity ward undergoing a work study . |
| 27 | The third summer I came across greenflies which I easily killed with malathion . |
| 28 | During last year I came into possession of a large quantity of 1/4in router bits . |
| 29 | At Folkstumyren I came across a pair of bluethroats which were busy catching insects , sometimes flitting up into the air like a flycatcher to intercept craneflies . |
| 30 | You do not even disapprove , very much , of the way I came to bed with you . |