Example sentences of "have been coming [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food to feed this hungry nation has been coming in through Mogadishu 's port . |
| 2 | The signal is dated 1 August 1942 and states that a stream of messages had been coming in from Stirling in the desert regarding the shipment of supplies by Bombays for delivery on 4 August . |
| 3 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 4 | Some fear reprisals if they did so , although tourists have been coming here for years to fish for trout and salmon . ’ |
| 5 | Contrary to reports of declining sales , there have even been rises in circulation , readership and ad revenue ( slowly , but surely , the agencies have been coming round to Punch 's point-of-view ) . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's a chap — he 's been coming round for years going on and on at me about buying the table . |