Example sentences of "[verb] come across the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just did not expect to come across the late Norman Britton in the garden of the Ferret and Firkin at half past six in the evening . |
| 2 | Karin went down with a group of 20 divers expecting to come across the usual remnants from ships like portholes and anchors . |
| 3 | He must have come across the low fences that separated the row of back gardens . |
| 4 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've come across the same thing all over Europe . |
| 7 | 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 . |