Example sentences of "i came [prep] [art] " 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 | I , I did n't I came off the council at that time and er I became the president of the gathering . |
| 6 | When I came off the phone . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | Around that time I came across a dog-eared treatise on the 1968 student uprisings , in particular the LSE sit-in . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Beyond yet another bridge , for Victorian ingenuity had been hard at work here , I came across a torrential waterfall labelled ‘ salmon weir , . |
| 11 | Walking by the riverbank , I came across a W.W. Jacobean neighbourhood of mellow terraced shops , pubs and houses . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I came across a reference in Randolph Ash . |
| 14 | The next morning , when I had been on the move for half an hour , I came across a shack to the left of the road , looking like two different sized cartons glued together side by side . |
| 15 | On the same holiday I came across a sandy bank in a patch of sun — except that the patch was a dazzling blue . |
| 16 | During this research I came across a startling discrepancy in various fishkeeper 's views on this species . |
| 17 | I came across a very brief report about my mother 's death . |
| 18 | But my hunch proved right , I came across a few likely looking names and phone numbers and eventually I found a breeder in Bow , East London , who had several barn owls , all brothers and sisters , who would be the perfect training age for me . |
| 19 | ‘ While I was checking the computer I came across a reference to the P-PRD . |
| 20 | At Folkstumyren I came across a pair of bluethroats which were busy catching insects , sometimes flitting up into the air like a flycatcher to intercept craneflies . |
| 21 | Herscovici says : ‘ At a Foundation in Madrid , I came across a fake Magritte which had been slipped into into an official exhibition so that it could be reproduced in the catalogue without my permission in order to achieve legitimacy . |
| 22 | I came across a text which Christian Zervos had written in 1931 . |
| 23 | Whilst browsing through one of the local Christmas fairs , I came across a stein , made of pottery . |
| 24 | Flicking through it , I came across a passage that described his psychotic breakdown . |
| 25 | While I was puzzling over how to solve this problem , I came across a paper written by a Harvard-based neurobiologist , Larry Benowitz , in the early 1970s . |
| 26 | Fifty yards from the end , on the left , I came across a café-restaurant . |
| 27 | ‘ One morning , shortly after returning from Africa to my home in rural Hampshire , I came across a group of deer standing in a field . |
| 28 | I came across a striking example of this recently in the story of John Hyde nicknamed ‘ Praying Hyde ’ , a missionary to India early in this century . |
| 29 | The first was when I came across a picture of a heavily armoured man jousting with a naked woman , like knights at a tournament . |
| 30 | As the sun began to go down , I wandered happily through the ruins until I came across a band of Timurid star-vaulting in one of the side chambers . |