Example sentences of "[adv] come across [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I have only come across one women at the Humboldt University who has worked seriously on the Russian Avant-garde . |
2 | As a teacher in the Philosophy of Science , Song constantly came across Jewish names like Einstein and Freud . |
3 | They have already collected 1,000 signatures , said Mr Leeder , and had not come across one person who had objected to what they wanted . |
4 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
5 | So probably a total stock of a dozen or more White Clouds , a dozen Zebra Danios , five female and one male American Flags ( females have a dot on the dorsal fin ) , six Black Widows and Six Red Eyes , with perhaps six Rosy or Aurulius barbs ( though I have my doubts about the later having once come across three three-inch specimens that tried to eat Corydoras for breakfast ) and the pair of sluggard cats . |
6 | And one final thought — if I ever come across any Crenicichla species ‘ Xingu III they would fit very well into my tank , with the Uaru , and then I would really have a dream come true ! |
7 | It seems to me we 're also coming across some sort of Eastern influence here as well . |
8 | You may also come across larger versions of plumber 's snakes sold for clearing drains , including electrically-powered ones . |
9 | We also come across nervous jokes that fashionable Belgravia was to be renamed ‘ Burglaria ’ because of the frequency of house-breaking , and numerous stabs against the ineffectual reassurance of ‘ the defective police ’ , the ‘ seldom-at-Home-Secretary ’ and his ‘ not-at-Home-Department ’ . |
10 | In our work , we often come across abused children , and adults , who seem to exist in some kind of nether world , unable to express fear , anger or love and who forever , unable to have satisfying relationships , feel alone — disconnected from themselves and others around them . |
11 | But then one often comes across other entries to amuse one on the way , such as the record of an enumerator 's problems in compiling part of the 1871 census for Sheffield shown in Table 2 . |
12 | If you have n't come across foot-assisted trowels before these have a long tubular handle and work as the name suggests allowing the whole weight of the body to force the trowel into the ground , rather than just relying on the arm muscles . |
13 | I have n't come across any disadvantages yet . |
14 | And I have n't come across any notes from me to me , so obviously I 'm not going to go back into the past and leave anything for me to discover in the future , which is the present . |
15 | Author of Love Is n't Quite Enough — a study of male-female relationships — Dr Tysoe says , ‘ I have n't come across any evidence that shows older women are attracted to toyboys because they think they might be better in bed . |
16 | I even came across one stretch of the old defence works which has had a rugby pitch squeezed into it , with a glacis for a touch line . |
17 | They 're part of the changing retail scene which ranges from the modern shopping centres at one end of the spectrum to squat shops , short term let shops and car boot sales at the other , for the other less source of er retailing , source of purchasing from a decreasing number of people erm trade in car boot sales are subject to the same controls as high street traders basically be product safety , erm , but as well as those problems we are increasingly coming across other problems in particularly counterfeit goods , goods like that on sale at car boot sales , quite attractive , wholly illegal and it wo n't be out for about six or nine months yet . |
18 | Now they used something called a tachistoscope , I 'm not sure about the spelling of that , which you do n't come across these days , it tends to be computers that 're used . |
19 | Open questions will often be addressed to all subscribers — Has anybody out there come across this problem ? |
20 | An example of this was given by a liaison group teacher who said that he always asks his classes for their height and weight : he had yet to come across one pupil who used the metric system . |
21 | I have yet to come across another dog who began life in the same way Sadie did which has now successfully integrated into society . |
22 | Our main point of contact is the Circle , but we have occasionally come across each other at cultural events in Nottingham . ’ |
23 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |
24 | I 've certainly never come across any evidence that it exists . ’ |
25 | Manager Trevor Anderson added : ‘ I 've played all over Europe and have never come across this sort of thing before . |
26 | Manager Trevor Anderson added : ‘ I 've played all over Europe and have never come across this sort of thing before . |
27 | For example , we continually came across white schoolchildren , who were perplexed by the diminishing prospects of employment and who searched for explanations and solutions . |
28 | Daphne came from one of the best families in London , certainly from what I understood to be the upper classes , so once I left St Paul 's I assumed we would never come across each other again . |
29 | She 'd never come across this combination before : an expansiveness of both temperament and physique , coupled with a mental set restricted to a handful of concepts . |