Example sentences of "i come [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 following handwritten entry : |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | It 's his age that is against him , but he 's helped me a great deal since I came into the Irish squad . ’ |
| 13 | It was only 5.30 pm when I came into the main hospital building , but a cheeky nurse said ‘ Bon soir , Miss Veness , parlez-vous Francaise ? |
| 14 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 15 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 16 | Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies . |
| 17 | In the end I came to a good old British compromise . |
| 18 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 19 | At nine o'clock , after twelve miles , I came to a slippery escarpment , a cascade of sand tumbling five hundred feet to a plain which , in spite of a slight haze , I could see stretching some sixty miles south and west . |
| 20 | Separate from my parents in another country , I came to a new knowledge of me as a self apart . |
| 21 | Nervously , I moved forward , fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole . |
| 22 | I managed to hold the aircraft straight for a short distance , running on the nosewheel which , luckily , had escaped damage , but as the speed came off the aircraft slewed sharply left and I came to a slithering , steaming halt about 200 metres the other side of the dyke , well off the runway . |
| 23 | Five hours later , after I had passed beneath a crudely-lettered blue notice board that welcomed travellers to the unpeopled jungle vastness of Darién , I came to a wooden sign that said simply ‘ Sante Fé ’ . |
| 24 | While I came to the Arctic when I realized that climbing , my first love , was losing its appeal , Tony was born to the area , loving it , one might believe , even before he saw his first photograph of it . |
| 25 | I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham . |
| 26 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
| 27 | I came to the rapid conclusion that anyone tackling it must be either incredibly brave , extremely stupid — or both ! |
| 28 | I came to the braided reaches of the river where it swung out over the sands , and adjusted my steps so that I cleared all the channels easily and cleanly , a leap at a time . |
| 29 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |
| 30 | In my case you get pregnant at every verse end , cos I came of a big family you see , mm . |