Example sentences of "coming across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say a tall man coming across the street in shirt-sleeves . |
| 2 | I watched the dusk coming across the snow from the edge of the wood like smoke from a newly-lit bonfire . |
| 3 | As the sun rose higher in the sky , the mist began to clear and , suddenly , John saw the Dragoons coming across the muir from the east and heading straight towards them . |
| 4 | For years now people from neighbouring Austria , particularly from Graz and Vienna have been coming across the Hungarian border on shopping trips . |
| 5 | Throughout this chapter we have been coming across the coffins of nobles , all of which had repoussé coronets about the grip-plates and three-dimensional gilt copper versions — usually with gilt wooden baubles and remnants of the cap — sitting on the lid . |
| 6 | He also recalls coming across the body of a Czech climber sitting upright in the snow . |
| 7 | California bears the brunt of illegal migration , in part because it receives nearly half the Mexicans coming across the border each year . |
| 8 | I saw the hired hand from M. Deloche 's farm coming across the field with it in his hand . |
| 9 | It appeared , coming across the desert , as a long trail of dust . |
| 10 | Pascoe had heard her scream and was coming across the boatyard , crashing and falling . |
| 11 | We had rehearsals in the morning , and by lunch-time people were already coming across the river to get their places for the play . |
| 12 | Jehan saw that Kadan 's sister Irina was coming across the grass , and he bowed to her . |
| 13 | At one time , you could n't travel more than a half day across Ireland without coming across the Draoicht Suan in one form or another . |
| 14 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 15 | Same over it 's just coming across the country is n't it ? |
| 16 | We might note the surprise of William Hutton in 1741 on coming across the women nailers of the Black Country at their small forges . |
| 17 | Then I heard the slap-slap-slap of rubber-soled feet coming across the yard and did what any ice-cool undercover dude would do ; I went into freeze-frame , rabbit-in-headlight shock . |
| 18 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I remember coming across the problem occasionally when I was doing a casualty job . |
| 21 | We waited for them coming across the brig . |
| 22 | and the moon starts coming across the sky as it does and it gets in the way of the sun . |
| 23 | erm it 's very very hot , it can reach 40x or 42x centigrade , sand blown , inadequate shelter and at the moment , something like 10,000 more people coming across the border each day than are leaving the country . |