Example sentences of "coming [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Esther 's slight figure could be seen coming furtively through the door and into the recess . |
| 32 | Do n't like two of you coming home on the bus but , especially when it 's cold and horrible ! |
| 33 | Andrew 's coming home for the weekend so I thought it would be nice to have a drinks party . |
| 34 | We were talking about Andrew coming home for the weekend and having the Bunkers round for drinks . |
| 35 | She was attacked coming home from a dance and nearly killed . ’ |
| 36 | ’ British pop evolved from R&B dance culture , but while the working classes were coming home from the factory and putting on some Motown , the people who now run record companies were at university listening to Genesis or Peter Frampton or whatever — their only contact with pop culture was Gary Glitter or Sweet . |
| 37 | His elder brother coming home from the fields and hearing dancing enquired what was going on . |
| 38 | When the morning came they saw all the gardeners and weeders coming up to the wall and every one was looked at by three guards . |
| 39 | William completed his five-year stay in Clerkenwell successfully ; by the time it was over his brother Benjamin James was already down in Somerset and Charles Frederick was coming up to the age when he , too , would become an apprentice . |
| 40 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |
| 41 | This is the path coming up to the house and you 've got the green like that between there and there , there 's a gap , I do n't know how I 'm gon na do that |
| 42 | Thinking how quiet she 'd gone when he said he was coming up for the funeral and how she 'd seemed to withdraw into herself . |
| 43 | Pepsi outlined the problems behind their new style : ‘ It was difficult coming up with a look that was original , that did n't look like Kylie or Madonna but retained their strength — I think we 've cracked it though . ’ |
| 44 | Have you ever watched seasoned knitted diving into cartons of yarn , coming up with a cone and giving it a good sniff ? |
| 45 | In this instance we have used five-year steps for both age and service , coming up with a result as in figure 7 . |
| 46 | THE TVP 's crank-driven DIY rock ‘ n ’ roll may sound dated in these wearing , uncaring times , but that said they still have n't lost the knack of pulling a good tune from seemingly nowhere or coming up with an idea that will tug at your sleeve for attention . |
| 47 | I went in and there 's Heidi oh well I 've just got all the script coming up on the screen and I 've just got so and so for you and I |
| 48 | So a boy coming up through a family that was involved in riveters would sort of more or less |
| 49 | Daffodils were coming up in the garden but it would be dark when his guests came to the house to eat their meal . |
| 50 | The sky had clouded over ; the cloud coming up from the desert and spreading over the whole wide sky in a matter of minutes . |
| 51 | A row of thatched cottages is strung along the lane coming up from the sea and opens into a forecourt in the front and at the eastern side of the house . |
| 52 | ‘ There are people who are ‘ smokers and proud of it ’ who are coming up against the trend that the rest of society wants to see . ’ |
| 53 | It was a well-attended service , families coming both from the village and down from the hills . |
| 54 | The first type is that of new general orientations of a very wide sort , basic themes that keep coming back across the documents and hence can be said to characterize the Council 's mind and achievement as a whole . |
| 55 | ‘ Ah , there it is , ’ Signe said , coming back into the room and taking the cold coffee from me . |
| 56 | ‘ Hello ’ said Bob , coming back into the office and holding out a bag of sweets to Tessa . |
| 57 | At least one citizen died through coming back into the town after a great thickness of ash had accumulated , and presumably during a lull in the eruption , either to loot or to rescue his own little hoard of gold . |
| 58 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 59 | I keep coming back to the idea that everything can have some significance attached to it . |
| 60 | He said his wife was encouraging him , but that he realized the difficulties of coming back to the Commons and of the years after the election if we were in office or even more if we were in opposition . |