Example sentences of "i came [prep] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came across a very brief report about my mother 's death . |
| 2 | ‘ I came across a very bewildered woman asking for a cigarette and I asked her where she lived and took her home . |
| 3 | — , 59 , of ‘ I came across a very classy furrier 's in Nottingham just as the shopkeeper was putting a jaunty looking ocelot hat on a stand . |
| 4 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 5 | I came upon a very old woman dressed from hat to woollen stockings and high boots in black . |
| 6 | I mean I think it 's the class thing as well really , because I can remember when I was erm leaving school erm and I went to the careers erm teacher for my interview and I said I 'd like to be a journalist and she looked at me and I came from a very poor working class background in Tottenham , and she said ‘ I 'm sure you could be a secretary or a shorthand typist if you really tried ’ . |