Example sentences of "[noun sg] i 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 | In the end I came to a good old British compromise . |
| 4 | At Folkstumyren I came across a pair of bluethroats which were busy catching insects , sometimes flitting up into the air like a flycatcher to intercept craneflies . |
| 5 | On the same holiday I came across a sandy bank in a patch of sun — except that the patch was a dazzling blue . |
| 6 | Around that time I came across a dog-eared treatise on the 1968 student uprisings , in particular the LSE sit-in . |