Example sentences of "coming [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now the contractions were lasting 45 seconds and coming about every five minutes . |
| 2 | Two eyes serve a movement that now and again now and now and now sets neat prints into the snow between trees and warily allaying shadows shadow lies by a stump in a hollow of a body that is bold to come across clearings , an eye , a widening , deepening greenness brilliantly concentratedly coming about its own business till with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox , it enters the dark hole of the head . |
| 3 | Now we 've just heard about the fox and it 's coming across into the clearing , then an eye widening deepening greenness and talks about it coming about his own business till a sudden sharp hot stink of fox enters the dark hole of the head . |
| 4 | More , that his other arm was coming about her to encircle her too . |
| 5 | she stuck the kid in the back of the car and put the grocery in and she picked her up and brought her into the front seat , ti , tied her in and and the the , the , the , this thing was coming about |
| 6 | All the emphasis , she felt , must be on this coming as an order which could not be disobeyed and yet put in such a way as not to be offensive . |
| 7 | Director and journalist George Allison kept the honours coming as manager , supported by Tom Whittaker and assistant manager Joe Shaw . |
| 8 | While the Feldwebel was talking to the driver of the car , the little soldier who was coming as an additional escort stood by the suitcase . |
| 9 | These Articles , confirmed by Acts of the Scottish and English Parliament ( Union with England Act 1706 ; Union with Scotland Act 1706 ) , were to ‘ be held and observed in all time coming as a Fundamental and Essential Condition ’ of union . |
| 10 | Funny , sexy , strong pacy first novel of the life of a television station , coming as an A format ‘ summer read ’ original . |
| 11 | Anyway , he has changed publisher , is still coming as an original paperback , is still writing about the radio , and I 'm still hyping him , since I think things will work for him eventually . |
| 12 | We both heard the footsteps , those same light footsteps I had heard before , on the gravel below , coming as if up from the sea . |
| 13 | Balor 's coming as a guard . ’ |
| 14 | Obviously Alexandra had not mentioned the possibility of him coming as her … what ? |
| 15 | Er only if erm the mother was torn at all or , or if you did n't think the baby was coming as it should , there was problems there , then you , you would . |
| 16 | They had got into conversation one evening when Ianthe was coming back from the library where she worked , and it had reassured her — coming as a stranger to this rather doubtful neighbourhood — to meet somebody whom her mother would have described as a ‘ gentlewoman ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been coming as a mere visitor . |
| 18 | His director of international protection , Michel Moussalli , wrote in ’ Refugees ’ magazine — the UNHCR publication — in May : ’ The majority of people coming as asylum seekers into Europe are not refugees but economic migrants . ’ |
| 19 | Stonehill , last in Belfast two years ago is coming as part of a European tour . |
| 20 | He was coming as a supplicator , with an open pit inside him . |
| 21 | Fish caught in gill-nets are generally regarded as being of poorer quality , because they are often dead for many hours before coming aboard the fishing vessel . |
| 22 | ‘ If a deadly beast was coming for you , what would you do ? |
| 23 | James — they are coming for us . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The work is destroyed already — if they are coming for us . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I saw problems coming for the breed and in 1984 I started a training club for Dobermanns and , more specifically , for their owners , ’ Graham said . |
| 26 | ‘ No , no , his aunt is coming for him . |
| 27 | They can be a bit thick at the best of times , ; you know that amphora you sent me ? well my lot only went and peed in it — I have to go now , Tony 's coming for his Osso Buco . |
| 28 | Here 's Tony coming for his gustatio , how handsome he is in his reconstructed hat . |
| 29 | He said he was coming for some gnocchi tonight . |
| 30 | For crossing the border into Iran , he had a code ( ’ I am coming for Mustafa ’ ) , but no-one asked for it ; and so they landed in Tehran . |