Example sentences of "i [adj] [verb] across " in BNC.
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| 1 | I first ran across the new range of Eggle guitars at this year 's Northern Music Show and was stunned by the beautiful , figured tops and obvious quality of workmanship . |
| 2 | When I first came across Ritwik Ghatak 's films about ten years ago , I was puzzled . |
| 3 | It was when I got back to my new room there that I first came across my new neighbours , Jane and Mark Walsh , and their two children , Sonja and Darren . |
| 4 | When I first came across him in 1982 he was playing for Exeter University in a sevens game at Twickenham . |
| 5 | I FIRST came across Theatre de Complicite seven years ago in a show called More Bigger Snacks Now , which featured a definitive demonstration of just how much mess it is possible to make with a few packets of crisps and a couple of cans of Coke . |
| 6 | A Japanese aristocrat , which I first came across many years ago in a Berkshire woodland garden , is Kirengeshoma palmata , with large , lobed , vine-like leaves on dark 3ft stems . |
| 7 | It was during my first year at university that I first came across it in a book by James Tyler Kent in a public library . |
| 8 | When I first came across this text my mind went to the Athanasian Creed which describes the Godhead as uncreated , infinite , eternal and incomprehensible . |
| 9 | I first came across her in a marriage hymn in Songs of Praise , which I still feel is the best that has ever been composed for a Christian wedding . |
| 10 | When I first came across Szasz 's dictum , ‘ Mental illness is a self-enhancing deception , self-promoting strategy ’ , I considered it to be a harsh judgement on a suffering fellow-creature . |
| 11 | It was at one of their conferences that I first came across organized lesbians and gays . |
| 12 | I first came across Method One in a Knitmaster manual . |
| 13 | Neither Maurice Hasson nor Christian Ivaldi are new to the catalogue , and indeed I first came across their names , though separately , in the 1970s . |
| 14 | ( When , as a schoolgirl , I first came across that line about the morning stars singing together , I was thrilled by it . ) |
| 15 | When I first came across it , I applauded the honest rigour with which Auden the critic revised Auden the poet . |
| 16 | ‘ I first came across Virginia Woolf through Orlando when I was a teenage person and it was the first time that I felt really addressed by a writer , ’ she says . |