Example sentences of "[verb] across as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relating , you form a , a bond basically between you and the customer , that 's why you sell well , cos you gel well with your customers , there 's empathy there , you 've got to come across as caring and sharing , but you 've got ta ask questions and you listen to the answers , right , you 've got to basically treat their problems as if they were your own , do you know what I 'm saying to you ? |
| 2 | He was , and is , a distinctly affable chap , whereas I came across as cold , prickly and generally difficult . |
| 3 | It might be early days but this approach falls a long way short of forging a relationship with the viewer and when he turned to the big screen to ask a reporter a single question , it came across as completely contrived . |
| 4 | The receiver was snatched at the first ring and Massingham 's disciplined impatience came across as strongly as his voice . |
| 5 | I think it would be best if you came across as nobly resigned : ‘ How could she stoop to do this to me ’ — something along those lines — without going into too much detail . |
| 6 | He talked of an Italian plan to stop the war and have a conference instead , he said he was in touch with France to agree a time limit for Germany to withdraw and be forgiven , it came across as craven . |
| 7 | Yeah I mean you coped be er you , you came across as very natural , you knew your script er friendly enthusiastic , yeah , no slang , belief was there , attentive to Ian 's responses , yeah , picked up the names mentioned earlier , eye contact when yeah er that . |
| 8 | Others may surprise you by being woefully unprepared and you may find yourself taking the initiative more often than you might have expected in order to be able to put across as many of your good points as possible . |
| 9 | Japanese owners operated 500 of the 1,300 Asian drift vessels in the Pacific , where there was increasing international pressure to cease driftnet fishing — a practice whereby fine nylon nets were stretched across as much as 60 km of the ocean to a depth of 15 metres , resulting in the unintended death of an estimated 1,000,000 sea birds and 200,000 mammals each year . |
| 10 | He 's walked across as far as this middle door . |
| 11 | To see a threat-that-was coming across as anything but a threat is saddening . |
| 12 | If a compressed file is too large to fit onto a single diskette , it will automatically be split across as many diskettes as are needed . |
| 13 | It was surrounded by a moat spanned by a fragile bridge which they cantered across as quickly as possible into a dusty courtyard . |
| 14 | Gedge told The Legend ! in an NME interview in April 1986 : ‘ When we play live I can sometimes come across as glib or arrogant and find that people take exception to what I say when all I 'm trying to do is talk to the audience . ’ |
| 15 | Philosophers can come across as overbearingly pompous . |
| 16 | ‘ They just do n't come across as remotely manufactured although soon they 'll probably become too aware to be good any more . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not like I 'm trying to get people on my side , but I do come across as likeable and vulnerable on stage . |
| 18 | ‘ My stars , did you come across as eager ! |
| 19 | Hubert wanted to tramp across as many mountains as possible , and he assumed that Barbara wanted to do the same . |
| 20 | Northerners come across as slightly more chauvinistic : they 'd prefer to have a male bus driver or doctor . |
| 21 | You come across as negative . |
| 22 | Derrida comes across as seriously concerned with philosophy and the problems of teaching it ; and he is non-committal in his response to a question about the possibility of introducing deconstruction into high schools . |
| 23 | Here , even the famous credo of uncrushability by a mere comic plot comes across as somewhat comically crushed . |
| 24 | I think the reason the British like it so much is for one thing it is normally sunny , there are some shots outside when it is rainy and overcast , but it comes across as bright and cheerful and it is an ideal sort of world . |
| 25 | She presents well , has charm , charisma and vitality , but comes across as severely intellectual on both arts and sciences . |
| 26 | He probably comes across as arty and a bit careless , but it 's much worse than that . |
| 27 | In his writings he comes across as wonderfully French — proud and arrogant , a gourmand and an aesthete , an admirer of female beauty ; he was also a terrific scandalmonger . |
| 28 | ‘ She comes across as lazy , but I 'm sure it 's just because Miss Philimore wo n't give her any responsibility . |
| 29 | She comes across as wonderful , does n't she ? |
| 30 | ‘ Paul Daniels learned the ropes on the Middlesbrough club scene where he had to be a little tougher to survive the wisecracks , but he comes across as unfriendly on television , ’ he said . |