Example sentences of "came across [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . Orienting myself through a large cast of characters , several long flashbacks , and a variety of thrilling events in New York and Jamaica , I came across occasional reminders of the novel … |
| 2 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 3 | The introduction of the Asiatic mode of production in Formen shows well that Marx remained flexible throughout his work when he came across new information . |
| 4 | I even came across one stretch of the old defence works which has had a rugby pitch squeezed into it , with a glacis for a touch line . |
| 5 | Their auditors came across alleged irregularities at a time when the Division Two outfit is already expected to make a loss of £120,000 for the season . |
| 6 | ‘ I threw them all away a couple of weeks ago as soon as I came across that letter from Parkin , ’ Lancaster murmured . |
| 7 | The one who came across that body in Benbury Woods a year or so ago ? |
| 8 | ( When , as a schoolgirl , I first came across that line about the morning stars singing together , I was thrilled by it . ) |
| 9 | came across dry ginger one of my school girlfriends was giving me a recipe , which , for which one er fo for erm ginger beer |
| 10 | Those poor men had a lot of problems driving in the poles to carry the lines and were obliged to use explosives on the last stretch over my land because they came across solid rock . |
| 11 | We came across many cases of schools using minimal resourcing to maximum effect ; and of schools with a substantial PNP staff enhancement manifestly failing to take advantage of what that enhancement could offer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , we came across many examples of teachers who had failed to tackle the imperative of genuinely shared planning ostensibly working alongside each other in pursuit of shared goals . |
| 14 | As PNP progressed , we came across many examples of collaborations which were clearly working well and which had liberated staff to work in new ways , to increase their understanding and skill , and to attend more closely to the needs of particular groups and individuals . |
| 15 | As a teacher in the Philosophy of Science , Song constantly came across Jewish names like Einstein and Freud . |
| 16 | He remembers when he first came across seventeen-year-old Jean Shrimpton posing for a Kelloggs ad with his friend Brian Duffy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When I first came across this text my mind went to the Athanasian Creed which describes the Godhead as uncreated , infinite , eternal and incomprehensible . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We first came across this South Sea adventurer on the fourth week of cruising around the Caribbean on our Hallberg Rassy 352 , writes Jenny Allan . |
| 23 | In the nineteen twenties water workers were laying a pipe when they came across this skeleton . |
| 24 | One day I was in the library and I came across this book . |
| 25 | Thus it was with pleasure that I came across this series of ‘ cartoon stories for adults of any age ’ , created by French scientist Jean-Pierre Petit . |
| 26 | ‘ He came across this seed in Cumbria and said : ‘ I wonder if we ought to invest in a bit ? ’ . |
| 27 | Firstly , we came across electric cables that were only three inches below the surface of the ground . |
| 28 | For example , we continually came across white schoolchildren , who were perplexed by the diminishing prospects of employment and who searched for explanations and solutions . |
| 29 | It was at one of their conferences that I first came across organized lesbians and gays . |
| 30 | I have to say that when we came across any martyrs , we tended to regard them with something approaching envy . |