Example sentences of "[noun prp] was come [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 2 | Simon was coming back along the waterline with Ben trotting at his heels . |
| 3 | In the summer , we were told that Britain was coming out of the recession . |
| 4 | As Roberto was coming down from the top of his back-swing , the spectators leaned forward on to the fencing causing a crack like thunder . |
| 5 | There were four long rings and then it cut out , but before it stopped , Cawthorne was coming out of the farmhouse and walking quickly towards the Paddock . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | By then Ward was coming down onto the track , his false arm and dummy hand hanging limp at his side . |