Example sentences of "[prep] [be] come [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 could eat him , I went down me mate 's Saturday , cos I come home and I sort of was coming towards the end of the week and just did a farewell dinner for dad on the Sunday and we all went to mum 's
2 Fr John is a lucky man to be coming to this parish .
3 The decline in output seems to be coming to an end , so the economy is at or near the trough .
4 As at Claybury the sub-regional resource centre option seemed to be coming to the fore , this time with high-level support .
5 Countless rumours of noble treachery against the generous wishes of the Tsar , and an astonishing number of ‘ false tsars ’ believed to be coming to their aid , kept peasant hopes alive .
6 The undoubted economic recovery after 1933 also appeared to be coming to a halt in a new recession which began in the summer of 1937 .
7 I love the fresh smell in the air when everything seems to be coming to life again and I felt a natural surge of joy , as if in a few weeks ' time John would be coming home from his first trip away just as he should have done the previous April .
8 doing it Roger is that we sit here and we say to our clients , ah but you really ought to be coming to us because we 're railway experts .
9 Supposed to be coming to Hamish and Tone 's shindig tonight . ’
10 He was about to add that he was supposed to be coming to dinner at her flat very soon , then wondered if that was still on , since he had been invited by Alexandra who presumably would now rather eat maggots than go anywhere with him .
11 He seemed to be coming to a decision to tell her something , and she waited with her heart thudding in her chest .
12 ‘ People seem to be coming to the door , ’ said Penelope .
13 Several months of public disorder incidents , accompanied by calls for political reforms , appeared to be coming to a head during April , with rioting and repression reported in Douala , Yaoundé , Bamenda , Ngaoundéré , Maroua , Bafoussam , Kumba , and other main centres .
14 N we ourselves have just started to put together our first thoughts on it in advance of receiving that advice , but clearly it 's much to early to be coming to getting the conclusions as to what that g guidance will eventually contain .
15 Acting on that basis , the kind of socialism that he advocated was then , was guild socialism , or more popularly nowadays , workers ' control , and what he would have hoped to see was something which , most mysteriously , does n't yet even now seem to be coming to the fore , the use of industrial power by the workers not merely for economic advantage but for political ends .
16 Oh dear , the wheels really do seem to be coming off Ollie at the moment .
17 Well if through the winter months when there 's no fire in there , no nothing in there the damp is bound to be coming through there .
18 It 's good on Covermaster , but if you think you can keep your living assurance in line with inflation even when you 're likely to be coming into poor health , it is a brilliant concept .
19 Oh aye er it seems to be coming into fashion , people buy the , ee , ee these cheap items like rings
20 Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally .
21 Not only that , but the beams appeared to be coming at a faster rate now — more than once a second .
22 The driver said , ‘ Look , there 's Mel Smith over there , coming out of the car park , ’ and I said , ‘ Mel 's supposed to be coming with me , we 're supposed to be going to Television Centre . ’
23 And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see .
24 John Pearson , who appears at the Wine Garden , Alton , on Tuesday , of of the 1960s decade of British blues musicians , acknowledged to be coming of age in the 1990s — their mature talents now best equipped for the task of bringing that conviction to their music that only age and experience can provide .
25 At first Sergeant Bramble thought it was one of the latest Atco motor-mowers but it seemed to be coming from above them .
26 It appeared to be coming from somewhere to the right , the bullets were hitting the house high up and smashing through the windows of one of the bedrooms .
27 The explosion in the orchard seemed to be coming from further away , from the other side of the orchard .
28 ‘ And when you look at some of their shops and you see the same old wooden table that has been sitting out the front for months priced at £10 , or £20 , you realise the money has got to be coming from somewhere else — and we know it 's coming from knocking . ’
29 What made things more disconcerting was a strange banging noise that seemed to be coming from the ceiling .
30 The oil seems to be coming from the transfer box , not from the main box .
  Next page