Example sentences of "[pron] came upon a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retracing my steps to the town centre , I came upon a street named Harmony Hill , the title of a book of short stories by the late Richard Phibbs ( Curlew Press ) . |
| 2 | The other day I was out on the hill when I came upon a herd of four stags , and I shot five of them , just as easy as that . ’ |
| 3 | I recently spring cleaned my lovely home , as one is inclined to do now and again , when I came upon a pile of old magazines which had been in the house for years . |
| 4 | I came upon a very old woman dressed from hat to woollen stockings and high boots in black . |
| 5 | I giant-stepped for a mile or two until I came upon a picture that is for ever engraved on the goggles of my mind . |
| 6 | About three weeks after I started looking , I came upon an advertisement for a receptionist to work at a local authority office building , not too far from my new home . |
| 7 | One afternoon the following week , Mary was coming into the yard having been to hear the banns read for the last time , when she came upon a group of local women standing around gossiping about the wedding . |
| 8 | Further along she came upon an upturned Welsh dresser with a hand protruding out from underneath it . |
| 9 | One morning in the Sharia Salah Salem we came upon a shop of curios and antiques . |
| 10 | In one of the darkest reaches of the river , we came upon a cluster of lights on the east bank . |
| 11 | Eventually we came upon an empty railway shed with a paved road and a line of street lamps along one side . |
| 12 | Many miles from camp they came upon a small specimen partially coated with a frothy greenish-tan crust . |
| 13 | Before they reached the towering stack of containers , between which ran innumerable alleyways where no faint light penetrated , they came upon a series of deck hatches . |
| 14 | Rounding one of the many bends in that valley , less than a mile up , they came upon a widening , almost an amphitheatre , where two small streams joined Kale through high banks . |
| 15 | One day , as the giant and Wolf head were hunting in the dale , they came upon a shepherdess called Gunda who was minding her flocks . |
| 16 | Towards nightfall they came upon a pair of small caves , which Miss Fergusson compared to the pressing of God 's thumb into the mountainside . |
| 17 | Then they came upon a clearing where there was a hut , made of lap-boarding with a verandah , and built up on bricks . |
| 18 | Lucy had reached the stage of feeling relaxed , her eyes scanning the distant hills , her hands holding the reins lightly , when they came upon a rabbit lying in the grass . |
| 19 | On the way back from this ritual , they came upon a crowd of anti-Falangist students . |
| 20 | Once they came upon an irregularly-shaped room as wide as the grazing meadow on the east bank of the Slow Brochet ; eleven passages led from it . |
| 21 | Thomas Albert Biggs , a born-deaf man employed as a coachman at Bristol , was out on bail on 13 charges of bicycle theft on 3rd June 1905 when he came upon a drama in the River Avon at a point where the river was over twenty feet deep and dangerous . |
| 22 | Finally , to his delight , he came upon a 41-ship convoy from the Baltic , escorted only by a 20-gun sloop , the Countess of Scarborough , and a 44-gun frigate , the Serapis . |
| 23 | Then , as he turned a corner , he came upon a little house , level with the road , built on concrete stilts above the rocks . |
| 24 | And I forget which of my old colleagues it was who was canvassing , blue rosette ablaze , in a particularly Labour-dominated council estate in Sheffield , when he came upon an elderly voter planting primroses by the door . |