Example sentences of "[pers pn] came [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 After four loads , I came across footprints in the snow .
2 I came across Brix on the Compulink ( CIX ) bulletin board the other day .
3 Recently , I came across references to pack-horse teams from Kendal in Cumbria making weekly journeys to Southampton , carrying bales of cloth for export to the Continent .
4 I did n't make a systematic study but I occasionally followed up clues if I came across references in books and catalogues .
5 During last year I came into possession of a large quantity of 1/4in router bits .
6 I came into contact with nearly all the fifty members of the community and with some intimately .
7 He said : ‘ I came to Italy for something different .
8 I came to birds through sound .
9 The day was the easiest since Reggane and I came to camp after twenty miles feeling strong , with Aulef only two hours away .
10 I came to school for a book , but I found a musician ! ’
11 I came to London with one set of thoughts about universality and triteness .
12 I came to London with one set of thoughts about universality and triteness .
13 ‘ But for the first time since I came to England in August 1977 , I 'll be hoping Liverpool do n't win again .
14 I went well beyond the carob until I came to strands of wire running through the trees , at the edge of the inland bluff , the eastern limit of Bourani .
15 I came to Britain from Cyprus when I was six and , when I was 12 , my mother volunteered me for the job of interpreting for a pregnant neighbour who needed to talk to a doctor .
16 I came to film through advertising .
17 Mm , I came to Harlow with my parents , when my husband was in the Air Force
18 You do not even disapprove , very much , of the way I came to bed with you .
19 It was after ten o'clock when I came to consciousness of the world about me again .
20 See when I came to Rhos-y-Bol in nineteen thirty three , there was no St David 's Hospital then , all the babies were born at home .
21 ‘ Tosca was the first score I came to grips with , and what a score !
22 ‘ When I came to Hollywood in 1950 , the studio system was still in place but it was crumbling , ’ he told the author .
23 But I came to terms with all that because the house has so much going for it in other ways .
24 Eventually I came to terms with doing what I call a ‘ sequence of interesting things ’ .
25 I came to terms with that long before the accident .
26 I came to Congress with my contribution to this debate firmly fixed in my own mind , but unsure of the view of the leadership of our union , given the views quoted to them in the press as their own .
27 I came of age in the Sixties , when there were chances , when it was all there waiting .
28 I came of age in the early 1970s .
29 P. H. One time I came on duty at Rose Hill and left my cape at the bottom of the stairs — on the banister .
30 When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something .
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