Example sentences of "come across the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have come across the low fences that separated the row of back gardens . |
| 2 | The experience is like entering the catacombs and I would n't have been the least surprised to have come across the odd skull or two in this formidable kind of Davey Jones ' locker . |
| 3 | He tore a page from his notebook , offered it with a pencil to Sharpe , then volunteered his own patrol to take the despatch to General Dornberg 's headquarters in Mons. Dornberg was the General in charge of these cavalry patrols which watched the French frontier , and finding one of his officers had been a stroke of luck for Sharpe ; by pure accident he had come across the very men whose job was to alert the allies of any French advance . |
| 4 | Walking into a club these days , it 's easy to get the feeling that you 've accidentally come across the local Hell 's Angels chapter double booked with a Skin 2 party . |
| 5 | Karin went down with a group of 20 divers expecting to come across the usual remnants from ships like portholes and anchors . |
| 6 | Then , too , the forger will not find it easy to come across the right paper . |
| 7 | He just did not expect to come across the late Norman Britton in the garden of the Ferret and Firkin at half past six in the evening . |
| 8 | It is a mild puzzle at first , to come across the young river Adour flowing from south to north down its valley , when you last saw it flowing from east to west into the ocean at Bayonne . |
| 9 | She tells us about one she came across the other day . |
| 10 | In a miscellaneous pile of documents , I came across the following essay . |
| 11 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 12 | Robins came across the intact records of a child guidance clinic in St Louis , of children who had been in trouble between 1924 and 1929 . |
| 13 | THE ROAD was hidden slightly at the bend , behind the overhang of the rowan trees and they came across the barred gate a little too quickly , crossing the bridge before realising that it was now behind . |
| 14 | This was fine until the wind direction changed slightly and came across the fixed line . |
| 15 | Just off Highway 83 north of Wellington , Texas , he came across the abandoned house of Mr and Mrs Sam Pritchard , who were unlucky enough to have been at home when the gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker paid a call after their car had plunged off the road . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | He was educated privately at home , and never knew there were other deaf people in the world until he came across the manual alphabet in one of the publications he was reading , and out of curiosity mastered it . |
| 18 | The weather was fine and they were enjoying their walk when they came across the neglected remains of a large house which they had often seen in the distance from the pump-house . |
| 19 | Karlovy Vary was named after Charles IV , Ven told her , who in the fourteenth century came across the scalding waters of the springs through one of his hunting dogs . |
| 20 | When the all the traffic came across the level crossing there . |
| 21 | For years now people from neighbouring Austria , particularly from Graz and Vienna have been coming across the Hungarian border on shopping trips . |
| 22 | She had been on the prowl for days , though it seemed highly unlikely , to say the least , that she would come across the Harlequin man by chance … |
| 23 | And if you can just when you come across the odd ones that do start with K just learn those and then instead of learning about a hundred thousand or something |
| 24 | Going inland , you first come across the Cornish farmland . |
| 25 | Then there 's another neck that comes across the other way and you can tune the strings any way you want ; I basically tune to groups of diatonic notes with whatever melody I want to play . |