Example sentences of "i [vb past] come [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day I happened to come across the work of the Italian still-life painter Giorgio Morandi . |
| 2 | I went on the road when I was 19 , I needed to come off the road so I knew who I was . |
| 3 | Faldo added : ‘ The only pressure I felt came from the media . |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , hard as it may be for you to believe , I did come for a reason . ’ |
| 5 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 6 | Three weeks later at a meeting I knew I had to come to the point where I said yes or no to Jesus . |
| 7 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 8 | Well as I actually had to going round the corner , to get myself round the corner , I had to come off the brake and onto the accelerator |
| 9 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 10 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 11 | It was the first time I had come across the word . |
| 12 | This was not the first time I had come across the concept of ‘ Quality ’ as meant in this context . |
| 13 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |
| 14 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 15 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 16 | I had come to the top of a long hill , so steep that the wheelbarrow was almost wrenched from my hands as the descent began . |
| 17 | In my job , I had expected the sick and the dying to trust God , and I had come to the Sahara hoping to discover whether I myself would keep the faith in adverse circumstances . |
| 18 | For the first time since I had come to the college I had access to student political material because my boyfriend was reading the posters , leaflets and student newspapers to me . |
| 19 | ‘ I said I had come to the time I knew myself . |
| 20 | I had come to the conclusion that there was no way of putting them back . |
| 21 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
| 22 | I mean if I 'd have if I 'd have , if I had come to the last one |
| 23 | I had come from the hotel expecting to return , and was quite unprepared . |
| 24 | My best course would have been to follow the track to the village , strike the road , and then to go along the road until I met the track by which I had come from the shore . |
| 25 | I 've not booked up erm Cricket next , yet erm because I wanted to come to the meeting and ask erm you know what night , and also what period ? |