Example sentences of "i came [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I threw them all away a couple of weeks ago as soon as I came across that letter from Parkin , ’ Lancaster murmured . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Perusing my library shelves recently , in a largely fruitless search for scholarly references with which to stiffen this article , I came across some evidence supporting that contention . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And , it was the attitude of the other men going to a , play another school , I came across this man who asked me who the referee was on that particular day ? |
| 6 | It happened because I was pretty vulnerable at the time and when I came across this lady who I felt sorry for I imagined that I would be able to support her and make her happy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One day I was in the library and I came across this book . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure I came through this junction . |
| 10 | because he said that when I came into that corner I pulled in I 'd slowed too much and then had to drive round , drive round the corner with my left foot flat on the floor and I thought oh , should n't your left foot be flat on the floor when you corner and that 's probably what he was getting at , as I could off been slipping the clutch . |
| 11 | And every time I came to that bit I jerked up in my chair and Miss Ross shouted at me . |
| 12 | I came to that conclusion at that time |
| 13 | I can not give over any of the powers that I , as a Member of Parliament , elected by the citizens of Aldridge-Brownhills — and each of us elected by our respective constituents — was given when I came to this Parliament . |
| 14 | Last week I came to this school to discuss the course with the Head . |
| 15 | But when I came to this country … |
| 16 | As a youngster — I was twelve when I came to this country — I imagined it was only temporary . |
| 17 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Lord , I came to this world by accident . |
| 19 | Is the Minister aware that , before I came to this place , I served for many years on a local authority as chairman of the environmental health committee , which had a wonderful section for meat inspection ? |
| 20 | He says , you know when I came to this house I had to have split all my furniture into little bits so I could get it up the stairs . |
| 21 | I had no intention of marrying early when I came to this town . |
| 22 | ‘ I know all that , ’ I began to feel angry and frustrated , ‘ but Goddammit , the only reason I came to this island was because of my interest in polio . |
| 23 | It just so happens that , before I came to this debate this morning , I was flicking through a pile of press cuttings when I came across one from The Journal ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) , a north-eastern regional newspaper . |
| 24 | I came to this conclusion after being asked by a student for some information on Occitan . |
| 25 | ‘ I came for that weekend . |
| 26 | You know the first time I came in this country cos it was not decimal yet |
| 27 | I did mine when I came in this morning . |
| 28 | There 's one in the window I 'm just gon na have a look , cos I never had noticed when I came in this morning |
| 29 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |