Example sentences of "come across the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems to have come across the article in the early weeks of 1953 , since in February he threatened a libel action if copies of the offending issue were not immediately destroyed . |
| 2 | One user , in his thirties with a vast experience of illegal drug use , came across the drug in this way . |
| 3 | Eventually the Shaws came across the Rectory in the village of Ayot St Lawrence , three miles north-west of Welwyn in Hertfordshire . |
| 4 | Many years ago I came across the card in the Doll Museum in Wrexham and I 've been on the lookout for it every since . ’ |
| 5 | After an hour or so , they came across the ring in some garden rubbish . |
| 6 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 7 | I say a tall man coming across the street in shirt-sleeves . |