Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] came [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 2 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 3 | I remember during some very intensive rehearsals we were doing for the Ring we came to a passage where the figuration of the accompaniment always comes out too strongly . |
| 4 | Towards nightfall they came upon a pair of small caves , which Miss Fergusson compared to the pressing of God 's thumb into the mountainside . |
| 5 | For all his thinking he came to a sole conclusion . |
| 6 | Starting from the clubhouse on the first day and walking along the edge of the wood we came to a piece of natural grassland studded with patches of purpose tufted vetch and orchids growing among the unmown grass . |
| 7 | Allen asked , and as though to point his question they came to a place where another track came in from the right . |
| 8 | When she walked into the kitchen she came to a shocked halt . |
| 9 | At one point they came across a patch that was filled with every different kind of mushroom that they knew — white ones that grew like jagged clumps of coral , thick orange ones that oozed blue liquid when their stalks were broken , delicate saucer-shaped ones called ba uka , meaning bowl . |
| 10 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 11 | They were at the top of the hill now , and by common consent they came to a standstill . |
| 12 | On the rocky point near the settlement we came across a small flock of birds which had a very familiar look about them : they were whimbrel , that Arctic version of the curlew which breeds on most of the northern islands , including Shetland . |
| 13 | She began to walk through the wood , and after a while she came to a little house . |
| 14 | Walking along the canal bank one day we came across a wee lady siting on the banking drawing . |
| 15 | That surviving half-page on Alexandria with its three classes of people is memorable : the Egyptians , " an acute and civilized race " ; the mercenaries , " a numerous , rough and uncultivated set " ; and the Alexandrians themselves , " a people not genuinely civilized … but still superior to the mercenaries for though they are mongrels they came from a Greek stock and have not forgotten Greek customs " ( 34.14 ) . |
| 16 | After a while they came across a herd of buffaloes . |
| 17 | And one day he came across a huge seal and killed it , never knowing that it was his own father in his seal form . |
| 18 | And last night it came to a head with Mr MacSharry privately blaming his interfering boss for his decision to stand down , and Commission sources confirming that he felt badly let down by M Delors . |
| 19 | ‘ Part-way along the gorge we came to a smooth cavity that had been ground into the rock by swift flowing water . |
| 20 | After a couple of hundred yards they came to a ristorante . |
| 21 | In the afternoon they came unto a land |
| 22 | Many miles from camp they came upon a small specimen partially coated with a frothy greenish-tan crust . |
| 23 | Sinead 's father John saw the progressive school in Waterford as a last chance for his wayward daughter and for the first time in her life she came across a school where she had nothing to rebel against . |
| 24 | Next morning they sighted U-593 and attacked her ; about midday they came on a fleet of French trawlers but were satisfied they carried no German radio operators . |
| 25 | At the main gate they came across a sentry who was upbraided by Maclean for his slovenly appearance and ordered to call the guard commander . |
| 26 | A few miles further down the road they came on a group of Italians with rifles waving at them to stop , obviously having been alerted by the German post . |
| 27 | Two hundred metres down the road they came to a big old house standing in its own grounds . |
| 28 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 29 | To D'Arcy it came as a relief to be back in England where he would have tighter control over the situation and the full backup of his headquarters team . |
| 30 | On one journey he came across a room with sixteen doors leading off it , all locked . |