Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] come across " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 20 years experience in the retail business , she has come across all sorts of shoplifters , from down and outs to light-fingered public schoolgirls , and despises them all . |
| 2 | In the course of gathering material on Dark Age Cumbria she has come across marvellous stories in medieval languages and has published three novels based on them . |
| 3 | Yes , they 've sti they 've stayed together she still , mark you , in the letter she does come across as a misery guts . |
| 4 | I think we ought I think we ought to ask Alison if she 's come across anything |
| 5 | As requested I wrote and asked about self-catering accommodation at the conference and I received a reply saying that there 's one house that erm she 's come across that she thinks might be particularly suitable for us . |
| 6 | Who 's come across that before ? |
| 7 | One does come across entrepreneurial academics , but there is still something slightly suspect in the academic world about making , as distinct from earning , money which manifests itself in the grey area of consultancy . |
| 8 | I think in a community one does come across practical snags , like for example the differences become very marked between the businessman who goes off at eight in the morning and comes back at six , week in week out , year in year out , with perhaps sort of three or four weeks holiday , and the university men who appear to be around an awful lot of the time and appear to have a lot of holiday . |
| 9 | He points out that he has come across cases where , a link having been formed between the two , the patient has had phases of extraordinary well-being and health during which his psychologist has succumbed to severe mental malaise . |
| 10 | I do n't know how Wheeler knows him except that Charles has a cottage on the Cumbermound estate so perhaps he 's come across him that way . |
| 11 | In 10 years of filming around the globe , he 's come across Oxfam time . |
| 12 | I do n't think he 's come across any |