Example sentences of "[pers pn] come across [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the same holiday I came across a sandy bank in a patch of sun — except that the patch was a dazzling blue . |
| 2 | I came across a striking example of this recently in the story of John Hyde nicknamed ‘ Praying Hyde ’ , a missionary to India early in this century . |
| 3 | until I came across a small display above bottles of castor oil , laxa suppositories and a well known laxative was a sign reduced for clearance ! |
| 4 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 5 | Herscovici says : ‘ At a Foundation in Madrid , I came across a fake Magritte which had been slipped into into an official exhibition so that it could be reproduced in the catalogue without my permission in order to achieve legitimacy . |
| 6 | Around that time I came across a dog-eared treatise on the 1968 student uprisings , in particular the LSE sit-in . |
| 7 | Beyond yet another bridge , for Victorian ingenuity had been hard at work here , I came across a torrential waterfall labelled ‘ salmon weir , . |
| 8 | ‘ WHEN clearing-up a glory hole , viz the cupboard under the stairs , I came across an anonymous parcel . |
| 9 | In a miscellaneous pile of documents , I came across the following essay . |
| 10 | I came across the expected pitch ’ below the wedged boulders , which Wainwright describes as ‘ The one difficulty , above which is nothing but simple scrambling to the top . ’ |
| 11 | When I come across a new metaphor , one that stretches my understanding , I feel cold . |
| 12 | At last she came across a white man , nonchalantly lighting his cigarette from a twelve-inch flame shooting out of a gas jet , who was prepared to answer her question . |
| 13 | She tells us about one she came across the other day . |
| 14 | When you come across a faint track alongside a wire fence on the right follow it . |
| 15 | It 's not often you come across a good Bordeaux ! ’ |
| 16 | And if you can just when you come across the odd ones that do start with K just learn those and then instead of learning about a hundred thousand or something |
| 17 | If you come across the same situation the newly created Frog Mortality Unit at the Institute of Zoology wants to know . |
| 18 | If you come across an unfamiliar word or phrase , find its source . |
| 19 | Walking along the canal bank one day we came across a wee lady siting on the banking drawing . |
| 20 | On the rocky point near the settlement we came across a small flock of birds which had a very familiar look about them : they were whimbrel , that Arctic version of the curlew which breeds on most of the northern islands , including Shetland . |
| 21 | We came across a small party of people sitting innocently on a rock enjoying the sunshine . |
| 22 | As we turned another corner we came across a few villagers handling copra . |
| 23 | Everywhere in the stories that make up Joyce 's first major work , Dubliners , we come across a double reality , an invariable focus on the precise detail of place and person , class and bearing , speech and gesture . |
| 24 | Oh yes varied , and there interesting , with , with children , particularly if they erm if I 'm doing workshops er with art and writing workshops and we come across an abstract picture , the children music , and , we , as a way into their vocabulary which is n't as large as their , their writing skills , and there 'll , there 'll decipher an abstract picture , wonderful language and I like doing that you know |
| 25 | They did n't speak again until they neared the Commemorative Hall where they came across a mobile canteen manned by the Sally Ann . |
| 26 | A little further on they came across a parked Army vehicle around which a number of people were clustered listening to the vehicle 's wireless . |
| 27 | In another room they had a stroke of luck when they came across a large paper bag of fruit , a couple of packets of biscuits , a tin of shortbread , a jar of butterscotch and an unopened bottle of Johnnie Walker whisky . |
| 28 | However , when they arrived in a town called Morganza , Louisiana , looking for locations , they came across a little café with a sign outside which read ‘ Homemade pies and Coca-Cola ’ , Dennis spotted the place and fell in love with it . |
| 29 | THE ROAD was hidden slightly at the bend , behind the overhang of the rowan trees and they came across the barred gate a little too quickly , crossing the bridge before realising that it was now behind . |
| 30 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |