Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all her encouragement to them to come at any time to her house , Rose herself was wary of calling at Great Meadow . |
| 2 | The Frenchmen were keen to join up , but the snag was persuading the French authorities in the Middle East to permit them to come under British command . |
| 3 | It is usual for them to come in two equal length pieces to fit a central ferrule . |
| 4 | Got one week left for them to come after that . |
| 5 | because I 'll tell you what , I came off cold turkey , and I had the worst three days of my whole life . |
| 6 | I think it was when I came across that marvellous little book by Sellar and Yeatman — 1066 and All That . |
| 7 | Platinum was one of the few I came across that allowed you to have any more . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I threw them all away a couple of weeks ago as soon as I came across that letter from Parkin , ’ Lancaster murmured . |
| 9 | I came across many , many instances of that sort of thing . |
| 10 | I came across one of the most pitiful things I have ever known . |
| 11 | . 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 … |
| 12 | I came across feminist politics while I was at college in London in the mid-seventies . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Having negotiated the pitch with difficulty in the wet , I was at first relieved at having passed beneath the boulder and looking forward to an easy scramble to the top when I came across another difficult pitch . |
| 15 | Visiting local bookshops at random , I came across more and more books that had come from libraries . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Oxford led me back to Nottingham : whilst at St Antony 's I came across some pamphlets published by Spokesman — the imprint of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ltd , where I have spent nine of the last twelve years . |
| 18 | In the course of work on the Mesozoic rocks of the High Atlas mountains of Morocco , I came across some deposits in the Upper Jurassic near Imouzzer-des-Ida-ou-Tanane which I could only interpret as having resulted from the effect of storms on lagoonal sediments ( plates 4.5 and 4.6 ) . |
| 19 | I came across these two booklets on confirmation and wondered if they would be of interest to either you or Paul . |
| 20 | My husband and I came across these old photos recently and , although we know the names of some of the people , we would like to find out who the other two are . |
| 21 | So I came across these things you see when we were first married because I used to write out all Hector 's bills for him , by hand before we had a typewriter |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One day I was in the library and I came across this book . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ And one day I came across this tiny cottage . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | ‘ I came across this today , and thought it would interest you , ’ it said . |
| 30 | How on earth I came through all those perils unscathed , unarrested , is one of the miracles of my early life . |