Example sentences of "come across [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Clamp has come across with some details on sporadic occasions , too , though they are probably no more to be relied on than what my father 's told me . |
| 2 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 3 | Bobby McAlpine , chairman of Alfred McAlpine , says grimly : ‘ This is infinitely the worst construction recession I have come across in 42 years in the industry . ’ |
| 4 | The pony rescue in August 1990 was the trickiest situation she had come across in five years as a vet . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've worked with a lot of top sportsmen but Strachan is the best pro I have ever come across in any sport . |
| 6 | I now noted that the latter had on each hand only three fingers and a thumb , and only four toes on each foot , in the manner of the monkeys we had come across in another existence . |
| 7 | Davis 's agent was there , Herrick Shnexnayder , a desperate human being who wore a French smock , a prosciutto cravat and the most complicated double pate-job I have ever come across in ten years of show business . |
| 8 | I came across on this trip . |
| 9 | Brent came across with another £250,000 . |
| 10 | This lady was typical of the many I came across at these events . |
| 11 | Usually on Pack Meeting nights he waited until Brownie Bells had been sung and the Brownies were ready to go home before joining Brown Owl , but one evening , when the Brownies were engaged on various activities of their own , he came across to Brown Owl , and they walked about , talking earnestly . |
| 12 | Once again the sharp contrast was drawn between the charming and friendly people one came across in everyday life and the murdering hate of the evil terrorist minority who eagerly blew innocent men , women and children to Kingdom come . |
| 13 | Most graphs which you will come across in these references are finite . |
| 14 | You are most interested in how you come across to other people , whether they think you are witty or pretty , rather than having a genuine interest in them and their views . |
| 15 | Foreigners are always apt to find charming the examples they come across of quaint anachronisms , of dated anomalies , in English life . |
| 16 | The tapes and scores which they produce come across with real sincerity , and display surprisingly high levels of competence . |
| 17 | Together they must serve to make a consistent and powerful message that comes across with absolute clarity . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the extent to which scientific ideas permeate George Meredith 's poetry comes across with great force ( and it is interesting to hear of Meredith attending a British Association meeting and siding with Huxley against Richard Owen over evolution ) . |
| 19 | Whether or not there is such an aesthetic , there are certainly concerns and issues that unite the new generation of women artists : a new symbolism of the body is one such issue which comes across in several articles in this issue of Women 's Art Magazine . |
| 20 | An important emotion that comes across in both books is the constant feeling that the characters have been ‘ hard done by ’ and have had the worst possible luck just because of their colour and poor background . |