Example sentences of "come across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café . |
| 2 | Hashmat Ara Begum , a community worker in the Borough of Camden told me that she too had come across the most contemptuous attitudes among Health Visitors . |
| 3 | If you 've never come across the publication before , it is an essential purchase for any would-be freelance photographer and the well established alike . |
| 4 | I have never come across the problem of a horse licking the soil … although I have heard of eating droppings ( COPRAPHAGIA ) and other inedible things such as tree bark , afterbirth , dirt and bedding . |
| 5 | Every therapist/healer , orthodox or otherwise , has come across the person who just does not get better — despite doing everything ‘ right ’ . |
| 6 | Some readers will have come across the idea of expressing a simple relationship between an explanatory variable X and a response variable Y as Y = a + bX . |
| 7 | I have come across the meadows to the place beneath the willows , where I will find the brook . |
| 8 | It was the first time I had come across the word . |
| 9 | Walking into a club these days , it 's easy to get the feeling that you 've accidentally come across the local Hell 's Angels chapter double booked with a Skin 2 party . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's certainly noisy , ’ said Gurder , who had never come across the word . |
| 11 | We had come across the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway about to enjoy a ‘ Tank Engine ’ weekend of some kind . |
| 12 | Finally , because this book seeks to assist users of search in selecting a good headhunting firm for their particular needs , the survey asked how companies had come across the headhunters they had employed . |
| 13 | He tore a page from his notebook , offered it with a pencil to Sharpe , then volunteered his own patrol to take the despatch to General Dornberg 's headquarters in Mons. Dornberg was the General in charge of these cavalry patrols which watched the French frontier , and finding one of his officers had been a stroke of luck for Sharpe ; by pure accident he had come across the very men whose job was to alert the allies of any French advance . |
| 14 | However , he never did , and friends claim the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 15 | He seems to have come across the article in the early weeks of 1953 , since in February he threatened a libel action if copies of the offending issue were not immediately destroyed . |
| 16 | You have heard about complex variables , and I believe you have come across the Cauchy-Riemann relationships . |
| 17 | He must have come across the low fences that separated the row of back gardens . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've come across the same thing all over Europe . |
| 19 | However , he never did , and friends claim that the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 20 | You 've come across the treble and the bass right ? |
| 21 | Anyone who has read a selection of cases concerned with jurisdiction will have come across the distinction drawn between want of jurisdiction and excess of jurisdiction . |
| 22 | I 've just come across the details of your interesting looking conference in Blois . |
| 23 | ‘ Whoever brought the message must have come across the wall , ’ Corbett murmured to himself . |
| 24 | In the management of the Council 's Environment Award Scheme we have frequently come across the problem of schools needing practical advice and have assisted whenever possible . |
| 25 | ‘ As I 've travelled the universe , I 've come across the myths of many planets . |
| 26 | Most of you have probably come across the saying , the whole is greater than the sum of its parts . |
| 27 | The experience is like entering the catacombs and I would n't have been the least surprised to have come across the odd skull or two in this formidable kind of Davey Jones ' locker . |
| 28 | This was not the first time I had come across the concept of ‘ Quality ’ as meant in this context . |
| 29 | The ball come across and er I see Bedford had his back to the goal , and I could see he was going to swivel and hit it with his left foot , and I 've just come across the goal and er , he just hit it down low to my right hand side and luckily I 've come the right way and pushed it wide . |
| 30 | He was , he said , one of that small group of political eccentrics who browsed around the dustbins of policy hoping occasionally to come across the word ‘ science ’ : |