Example sentences of "i came [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lined up in the final and I came off the bend well in the lead . |
| 2 | I was the favourite to win the ‘ double ’ , but in the 200 metres , though I came off the bend in the lead , I relaxed too much and first John Regis and then Todd Bennett came past me . |
| 3 | Yeah , erm I er , I 'd given up erm about se seven weeks ago , and I was told that it was an anti-depressant and when I came off the cigarettes it was just terrible ! |
| 4 | When I came off the phone she said , " Mum you 'd better sit down . |
| 5 | But I was bad again , so I came off it . |
| 6 | I , I did n't I came off the council at that time and er I became the president of the gathering . |
| 7 | because I 'll tell you what , I came off cold turkey , and I had the worst three days of my whole life . |
| 8 | ‘ I came off stage last night and simply collapsed in a heap and slept straight through . |
| 9 | When I came off the phone . |
| 10 | In a miscellaneous pile of documents , I came across the following essay . |
| 11 | It was only after extensive reading through the writings of many authors that I came across the work which undoubtedly gave the author this particular inspiration . |
| 12 | He was , and is , a distinctly affable chap , whereas I came across as cold , prickly and generally difficult . |
| 13 | The third summer I came across greenflies which I easily killed with malathion . |
| 14 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 15 | When I came across it the other day , I was slightly embarrassed . |
| 16 | When I came across Lovat he was lying on the ground . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | It is all too revealing that , searching through the biographical work on Gide for further references to Athman in Europe , I came across hardly anything except the occasional derogatory , passing remark . |
| 19 | Around that time I came across a dog-eared treatise on the 1968 student uprisings , in particular the LSE sit-in . |
| 20 | I did n't make a systematic study but I occasionally followed up clues if I came across references in books and catalogues . |
| 21 | Scouring the dealers in a still slushy Scotland , I came across a 1985 B-plate model on offer for £4995 at Alex Ritchie Motors of 43 Nithsdale Street — south of the Clyde in real Taggart country . |
| 22 | One day I was in the library and I came across this book . |
| 23 | Beyond yet another bridge , for Victorian ingenuity had been hard at work here , I came across a torrential waterfall labelled ‘ salmon weir , . |
| 24 | Walking by the riverbank , I came across a W.W. Jacobean neighbourhood of mellow terraced shops , pubs and houses . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I came across a reference in Randolph Ash . |
| 27 | Visiting local bookshops at random , I came across more and more books that had come from libraries . |
| 28 | I have fished all over Scotland but the first place that I came across this system , which is used to distribute available fishing fairly amongst guests , was at Scourie , and it works very well indeed . |
| 29 | Anyway , while I was organising Simon 's papers I came across his diaries . |
| 30 | It was in this cave that I came across another example of Yorkshire wit : revealed in the light of a torch was a daubed inscription on the wall of the cave , ‘ J. CAESAR B.C. 44 ’ . |