Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , pardon me , it 's not my habit , you understand , to pick up on other people 's phone conversations , I was just coming down the stairs here , I could n't — ‘ |
| 2 | Anderton said yesterday : ‘ I was just coming into some form when I had to have my operation . |
| 3 | ‘ I was just coming to that . |
| 4 | I refer to IJ 's review of the Tilson Thomas recording of Tchaikovsky 's Swan Lake , in which he confirms the conclusion I was rapidly coming to — namely that the definitive version has not yet hatched ! |
| 5 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 6 | The Black Prince was to march from Bordeaux into the north-central areas of the country ; Henry , duke of Lancaster , planned to attack from Normandy ; while Edward III himself was also to come from the north . |
| 7 | She was fast coming to the conclusion that it would be impossible to be neutral about Matthew Preston . |
| 8 | She was fast coming to terms with the fact that there were two sides to this man . |
| 9 | She was now coming to the end of her second year , and only yesterday had been transferred from Bassett , the male surgical ward . |
| 10 | And , although she was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she had made a fool of herself all down the line , she still did n't quite know how . |
| 11 | ‘ The man who can win the allegiance of the Teddy Boys ’ , remarked Mr Andrew Fountaine who was later to come to prominence within the leadership of the National Front , ‘ can rule this country . ’ |
| 12 | My other sister , who was just coming into her teens , Showed very little interest in her big brother 's ‘ crazy ’ owl , but kept her distance , rather like a rabbit , I thought . |
| 13 | The first suggestion that something was wrong came from the silence . |
| 14 | The first inkling that something was amiss came on Wednesday , when Linfield were requested by UEFA to organise flights for Tbilisi officials to Geneva . |
| 15 | The first inkling that something was amiss came on Wednesday , when Linfield were requested by UEFA to organise flights for Tbilisi officials to Geneva . |
| 16 | Thus , the JanSport backpacks which were once Lo Life standard issue are now widely derided , as Moet and his friends turn to more sophisticated techniques : ‘ The way me and my friends do it now is to wear a suit and tie like we was just comin' from work , and carry a travel bag to carry another suit . |
| 17 | The conversation ended the official programme of the Leeds Congress , but there was more to come for a party of about forty participants , including the President and Professor Kerney and his wife , for whom an excursion into Wensleydale by train and horse drawn wagonettes had been organised . |
| 18 | If the pressure was on McSharry from the accountants concerned about ever increasing costs , it was also coming from the environmentalists who were objecting to taxpayers funding intensive farming which they believed was damaging the environment . |
| 19 | Also big trousers with big tops — it was all coming to an end , but it was still OK to wear them . |
| 20 | What had this Richard Blake said , well , she got the impression that he was counting on coming to a series of Transatlantic insurance conferences in the spring , and he was either coming to Montreal first , or to New York , she could n't remember which order it was , search me , said Louise , she had n't thought it mattered all that much . |
| 21 | For he halted only to slam the door fast behind him , then , having imprisoned her in her room , he was again coming after her . |
| 22 | At the second last fence Crisp was still ten lengths to the good but he was clearly coming to the end of his tether . |
| 23 | In Das Rheingold , finished in 1854 , and , up to a point , in Die Walküre , begun in the same year , Wagner came as near as he was ever to come to giving his theories practical effect . |
| 24 | He was obviously coming into form . |