Example sentences of "[pers pn] came [prep] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came across a very brief report about my mother 's death . |
| 2 | ‘ I came across a very bewildered woman asking for a cigarette and I asked her where she lived and took her home . |
| 3 | — , 59 , of ‘ I came across a very classy furrier 's in Nottingham just as the shopkeeper was putting a jaunty looking ocelot hat on a stand . |
| 4 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 5 | I came upon a very old woman dressed from hat to woollen stockings and high boots in black . |
| 6 | I mean I think it 's the class thing as well really , because I can remember when I was erm leaving school erm and I went to the careers erm teacher for my interview and I said I 'd like to be a journalist and she looked at me and I came from a very poor working class background in Tottenham , and she said ‘ I 'm sure you could be a secretary or a shorthand typist if you really tried ’ . |
| 7 | She came to a very sad decision . |
| 8 | She came from a very serious , Puritan family . |
| 9 | Er and we came with a very strong view I thought certainly to conclusion and I did that er , that those things need strengthening and must be a in taking part of any further distraction er at Heathrow . |
| 10 | It is only during this century that statutory services have been developed and they came in a very piecemeal fashion . |
| 11 | He came in a very dignified society . |
| 12 | Oh he came from an old , I think he came from a very old er , there was , there was a General , first world war , erm , well the last time I heard anything about Cake , well , he was , he 'd , he 'd left the Signals section , he was the when I left India , and the last time I heard anything about him , I read it in , in a paper in erm , when the troubles were on and he was brig brigadier in charge of an infantry brigade , about my age , well , a , probably a year or two older than me , cos he was a , yeah he was a lieutenant when I got out there a full lieutenant , so he must of been a captain . |
| 13 | It came as a very pleasant surprise to me when I learned that you were in the habit of spending some time in this part of the world . |
| 14 | It came from a very smart left-hand catch by Hick , his sixth of the match , a reprimand by gesture to WCM for putting him down as having missed a catch ( Aqib ) in the Lord 's Test which actually fell an inch or two short of Hick 's fingers . |