Example sentences of "i came across a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Folkstumyren I came across a pair of bluethroats which were busy catching insects , sometimes flitting up into the air like a flycatcher to intercept craneflies . |
| 2 | I came across a text which Christian Zervos had written in 1931 . |
| 3 | On leave in Ireland during a ceasefire in the 1976 fighting , I came across a pile of back issues of the National Geographic Magazine in a Dublin bookshop . |
| 4 | Flicking through it , I came across a passage that described his psychotic breakdown . |
| 5 | ‘ I came across a reference in Randolph Ash . |
| 6 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 7 | Reading a pre-war book , I came across a reference to a ‘ clerihew , ’ which seems to be a kind of poem . |
| 8 | You can imagine my surprise when looking around the Lancaster hangar at the display boards , I came across a copy of Flt Lt Bulcraig 's DFM citation , with a typed caption stating that our pilot had been killed with all his crew ! |
| 9 | As the sun began to go down , I wandered happily through the ruins until I came across a band of Timurid star-vaulting in one of the side chambers . |
| 10 | While I was puzzling over how to solve this problem , I came across a paper written by a Harvard-based neurobiologist , Larry Benowitz , in the early 1970s . |
| 11 | Glancing at a book in the Sale , I came across a piece by the famous chef Floris , about the secret of baking . |
| 12 | Whilst browsing through one of the local Christmas fairs , I came across a stein , made of pottery . |
| 13 | More recently still , I came across a letter written in English , by the Kaiser to an American friend , dated nineteen twenty-five , in which he writes , erm ‘ The Jews must be exterminated in a pogrom covering the whole world . ’ |
| 14 | Walking by the riverbank , I came across a W.W. Jacobean neighbourhood of mellow terraced shops , pubs and houses . |
| 15 | The first was when I came across a picture of a heavily armoured man jousting with a naked woman , like knights at a tournament . |
| 16 | I came across a picture of Lloyd George as Chancellor of the Exchequer defaced . |
| 17 | I came across a number of cases where , in an attempt to increase their chances of employment , people had returned to college to try to get better qualifications . |
| 18 | ‘ One morning , shortly after returning from Africa to my home in rural Hampshire , I came across a group of deer standing in a field . |
| 19 | The next morning , when I had been on the move for half an hour , I came across a shack to the left of the road , looking like two different sized cartons glued together side by side . |
| 20 | Fifty yards from the end , on the left , I came across a café-restaurant . |
| 21 | Before leaving the city for ever , I came across a philosopher , Jean-Jacques Rousseau , even more noted than the family of my accursed Master . |