Example sentences of "[noun] that i come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 2 | It was only after extensive reading through the writings of many authors that I came across the work which undoubtedly gave the author this particular inspiration . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | Now in the period that I come into it would be the First World War , when we had er , of course in these days , the thing we always , to look at the motor trade then , it was a follow up from the carriage trade . |
| 6 | The Theban Herald clearly finds this almost incomprehensible : The city that I come from lives under command Of one man , not a rabble The common man ! |
| 7 | I find it very difficult to accept the immigrant people and children that I come into contact with . |
| 8 | I feel like in Britain the kind of history that I came into as an eighteen year old was a women 's liberation movement whose context was anti-Vietnam , the counter culture , Vietnam solidarity , American radical feminism , irony of all ironies the Ford women 's strike , and here I was living with this Ford worker , domestic tyrant . |
| 9 | Erm I 'm not gon na mention that sort of little village in the north that I come from but on page twelve I do notice that thousand pounds . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | The President was amused , conceding that not much cricket or rugby was played in the United States , but as a sports fan himself he understood — especially as a Southerner , aware of the significance of sport in the Deep South , and of the fact that I came from an ever Deeper South than he did … |