Example sentences of "[adv] came across " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffiths far instance , only came across Lewis 's power of imaginative invention and insight of which I had no conception before . |
| 2 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 3 | He constantly came across people who adored his father and he could n't think why they did when he was such a silly little man who made such a fool of himself . |
| 4 | As a teacher in the Philosophy of Science , Song constantly came across Jewish names like Einstein and Freud . |
| 5 | In truth , she rarely came across them . |
| 6 | Once scientists began to collect the record of past life they soon came across the problem of how to order and arrange the huge variety of fossil forms they recovered . |
| 7 | But , I just came across so much of it every where I was , I thought actually there there 's a book in this because it used to get , just get me so cross writing theatre history and , and reading these terrible things ! |
| 8 | But there 's no doubt this activity stood Alec in good stead when he finally came across the truly Unknown . |
| 9 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |
| 10 | But he was in no way repentant , for he had parried this by saying he wished he had killed him and if he ever came across him again he would make another attempt . |
| 11 | What can you , I do n't know if you ever , ever came across any of these er the mark two that want an extension and I think it would project a |
| 12 | Yet you still came across people who thought that South Africa would have won the last World Cup . |
| 13 | They also came across Matisse sketches and two fake stamps imitating those of well known art experts . |
| 14 | In the course of our enquiries , we also came across an organization called the Computability Centre which runs a computer helpline for disabled users on . |
| 15 | He even came across a restricted locality where lived a colony of what must have been a new sub-species of the extremely rare , Small Mountain Ringlet butterfly , for they were at a much reduced altitude to their normal haunts , and altogether smaller than the regular species . |
| 16 | I even came across one stretch of the old defence works which has had a rugby pitch squeezed into it , with a glacis for a touch line . |
| 17 | The sequence in hand was apparently quite simple : we met up with another yacht and sailed in company , then came across a fishing boat to whose skipper I shouted , ‘ Have you any fish to spare ? ’ |
| 18 | The test car I drove had a serious wind noise problem , which will not be the first time Ford has heard that about the Escort , but it otherwise came across as well conceived — it 's easy to load and has a completely flat floor with rear seats folded — and competent . |
| 19 | For example , we continually came across white schoolchildren , who were perplexed by the diminishing prospects of employment and who searched for explanations and solutions . |
| 20 | For example , I recently came across the word ‘ homerun ’ and tried for several seconds to read it as ‘ homer-un ’ , until I saw the correct morpheme structure . |
| 21 | Naturally he was very happy when I was able to tell him that I recently came across a couple of cases of them we did n't know we had . |
| 22 | I never came across an instance of this , though I encountered a number of individuals who had just killed someone , including a complacent fourteen-year-old near Bilen . |