Example sentences of "come across [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 2 | Think of all the times I have n't come across my next-door neighbours on holiday in Innsbruck , or met my dentist while eating a cream meringue … more coffee ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You 've probably come across his work , ’ Bridget went on , ‘ though I 'm sure you 'd think it was pretentious rubbish . |
| 4 | We have already come across our first clue as to why species become extinct , and many others will emerge as the evolutionary story unfolds ; all of the solar planets were formed by catastrophic processes . |
| 5 | A friend and I have come across your brochure and we 'd like to give your course a try . |
| 6 | But what a delight it was to come across your adventure , particularly so as Sept saw me doing 6 days canoeing the Zam with Shearwater , rafting Vic Falls 4–19 and a flip at 18 , and I spent 2 days at Kariba lake on a houseboat . |
| 7 | The Order , when he came across its several agents down by the waterside , was civil for no doubt the same reasons . |
| 8 | Then Maggie came across her first human body . |
| 9 | And when she protested she never lay like that and had proceeded to demonstrate how she did lie , crossing her legs and pulling her knees up , she had let out a high squeal when the side of Sister Mary 's hard hand came across her knees in a whacking thump . |
| 10 | He came across her having a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit in the canteen . |
| 11 | It was a Dutch hiker who came across her battered body at the side of the River Swale between Catterick Bridge and Scorton , near Richmond . |
| 12 | She sat , still staring at the newspaper and slowly a look of understanding came across her face as if the final piece of the jigsaw had just been put into place . |
| 13 | Neither Maurice Hasson nor Christian Ivaldi are new to the catalogue , and indeed I first came across their names , though separately , in the 1970s . |
| 14 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |
| 15 | It was when I got back to my new room there that I first came across my new neighbours , Jane and Mark Walsh , and their two children , Sonja and Darren . |
| 16 | It was a coincidence that the previous weekend I had been sorting through an old trunk of mine full of memorabilia at my parents ' home , and came across my membership certificate for the Tailwaggers Club , along with Tailwagger medallion . |
| 17 | That was why Miss Tuckey 's file came across my desk . ’ |
| 18 | After hours of roaming through booklists and library indices , I came across my second book named Hear The Children Calling by Clare Mcnally . |
| 19 | Anyway , while I was organising Simon 's papers I came across his diaries . |
| 20 | It was n't an easy prospect to tell her parents , especially as her father was a strict Roman Catholic , but this was forestalled by her mother coming across her letter from the clinic . |
| 21 | Bill had expected that question , but he could not prevent there coming across his inward eye the memory of the grubby calendar in Onyx 's kitchen , with the new red ring round Thursday the twenty-ninth . |
| 22 | We could n't be sure of coming across our friendly shepherd next time . |
| 23 | All of us assumed that she 'd wandered off to die alone and that , sooner or later , we 'd come across her body , sprawled in a ditch or hidden from view in a clump of thorn trees . |
| 24 | Come across my number ? |
| 25 | I have occasionally been known to be kind to an old lady and I do n't kick every stray dog that comes across my path . ’ |
| 26 | Oh eh it comes across my shoulders . |
| 27 | No it comes across my it do n't come out on my arms or anything , it comes , it comes on my body if I have an orange |