Example sentences of "[pron] come [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all her encouragement to them to come at any time to her house , Rose herself was wary of calling at Great Meadow . |
| 2 | The Frenchmen were keen to join up , but the snag was persuading the French authorities in the Middle East to permit them to come under British command . |
| 3 | ‘ You say you are not lost , yet it seems unusual for someone to come across this spot . ’ |
| 4 | because I 'll tell you what , I came off cold turkey , and I had the worst three days of my whole life . |
| 5 | ‘ I threw them all away a couple of weeks ago as soon as I came across that letter from Parkin , ’ Lancaster murmured . |
| 6 | . Orienting myself through a large cast of characters , several long flashbacks , and a variety of thrilling events in New York and Jamaica , I came across occasional reminders of the novel … |
| 7 | I came across feminist politics while I was at college in London in the mid-seventies . |
| 8 | It was in this cave that I came across another example of Yorkshire wit : revealed in the light of a torch was a daubed inscription on the wall of the cave , ‘ J. CAESAR B.C. 44 ’ . |
| 9 | Oxford led me back to Nottingham : whilst at St Antony 's I came across some pamphlets published by Spokesman — the imprint of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ltd , where I have spent nine of the last twelve years . |
| 10 | Perusing my library shelves recently , in a largely fruitless search for scholarly references with which to stiffen this article , I came across some evidence supporting that contention . |
| 11 | In the course of work on the Mesozoic rocks of the High Atlas mountains of Morocco , I came across some deposits in the Upper Jurassic near Imouzzer-des-Ida-ou-Tanane which I could only interpret as having resulted from the effect of storms on lagoonal sediments ( plates 4.5 and 4.6 ) . |
| 12 | So I came across these things you see when we were first married because I used to write out all Hector 's bills for him , by hand before we had a typewriter |
| 13 | I have fished all over Scotland but the first place that I came across this system , which is used to distribute available fishing fairly amongst guests , was at Scourie , and it works very well indeed . |
| 14 | And , it was the attitude of the other men going to a , play another school , I came across this man who asked me who the referee was on that particular day ? |
| 15 | It happened because I was pretty vulnerable at the time and when I came across this lady who I felt sorry for I imagined that I would be able to support her and make her happy . |
| 16 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 17 | One day I was in the library and I came across this book . |
| 18 | Thus it was with pleasure that I came across this series of ‘ cartoon stories for adults of any age ’ , created by French scientist Jean-Pierre Petit . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sure I came through this junction . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | because he said that when I came into that corner I pulled in I 'd slowed too much and then had to drive round , drive round the corner with my left foot flat on the floor and I thought oh , should n't your left foot be flat on the floor when you corner and that 's probably what he was getting at , as I could off been slipping the clutch . |
| 22 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 23 | I came to two pounds difference about something |
| 24 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 25 | And every time I came to that bit I jerked up in my chair and Miss Ross shouted at me . |
| 26 | I came to that conclusion at that time |
| 27 | You chose very well , I used to get really nervous when I came to Chinese restaurants , I never knew what to choose . |
| 28 | If you care to try building that newsletter with PagePlus , however , you might see why I came to those conclusions . |
| 29 | I can not give over any of the powers that I , as a Member of Parliament , elected by the citizens of Aldridge-Brownhills — and each of us elected by our respective constituents — was given when I came to this Parliament . |
| 30 | Last week I came to this school to discuss the course with the Head . |