Example sentences of "[pers pn] came [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came off stage last night and simply collapsed in a heap and slept straight through . |
| 2 | Then I came across Rousseau 's Confessions , which took a bit of reading but was more interesting than the love mags . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Three hours later I came across Mark huddled underneath a small buttress about 50 metres below the summit of Les Courtes . |
| 5 | ‘ I came across families who had n't eaten for four days . |
| 6 | After four loads , I came across footprints in the snow . |
| 7 | I came across Brix on the Compulink ( CIX ) bulletin board the other day . |
| 8 | It was rare that I saw people , though now and then I came across sheep and goats being herded by children — boys in night-shirts or girls in blue gingham , every dress made from the same roll of cloth . |
| 9 | The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ? |
| 10 | While reporting the use of direct marketing techniques at the start of the election , I came across Tony Book of Compass , the database consultancy within the ICD group . |
| 11 | I did n't make a systematic study but I occasionally followed up clues if I came across references in books and catalogues . |
| 12 | Recently , I came across references to pack-horse teams from Kendal in Cumbria making weekly journeys to Southampton , carrying bales of cloth for export to the Continent . |
| 13 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 14 | When I came across Kathleen Woodward 's Jipping Street I read it with the shocked amazement of one who had never seen what she knew written down before . |
| 15 | The third summer I came across greenflies which I easily killed with malathion . |
| 16 | And when I came across people who told me I must be , at best , gullible to believe in metaphysics ( and why did n't I rejoin their random , meaningless reality ? ) , then I had invited them into my world . |
| 17 | When I came across Lovat he was lying on the ground . |
| 18 | The last time I came through , Irene and I came through Colchester and we were going to Clacton . |
| 19 | After watching Victor Frankenstein walk towards his father 's house , I came through Geneva and back to Sècheron and my automobile . |
| 20 | ‘ See thou — I came through Summit Tunnel last night . |
| 21 | During last year I came into possession of a large quantity of 1/4in router bits . |
| 22 | I came into contact with nearly all the fifty members of the community and with some intimately . |
| 23 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 24 | And this is er this is my last but one before I came into recruiting . |
| 25 | ‘ I CAME into politics to help ensure that the freedom of opportunities given to my generation would be extended more widely . |
| 26 | He was very pragmatic about why he had been drawn to cinema ‘ I came into films not because I wanted to make films . |
| 27 | I was in Gloucestershire twice before I came into Oxfordshire . |
| 28 | When I was out on the road I mean before I came into training I was so I laid my cards at the table at this point in time to say yes I need to sell insurance erm and I always remember particular broker who you go in and and he 's saying well so how many of these particular products would you sell over the next year and he said oh twenty five and you go in great , guy 's promised to sell twenty five domestic contents policies over the next year . |
| 29 | Henry Erskine once remarked of a Scottish judge and freeholder that ‘ he was first my enemy , when I came into power he was my great friend , when I went out he turned cool again & left off cultivating me , in that state we now remain , but I make no doubts were I in again , I should have him back again' . |
| 30 | BILLY BREMNER : ( Leeds , Hull , Doncaster and Scotland — 1959-81 ) : ‘ He was a hero at Elland Road a long time before I came into football . |