Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] birthday " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad had been improving daily — he was eating well , in good spirits and coming up to his eightieth birthday . |
| 2 | He was coming up to his twenty-seventh birthday and his face had already acquired some of the lived-in look that became one of his characteristics later in his career . |
| 3 | Mozart was then coming up to his eighteenth birthday , but already a mature master , and No 29 is both a great symphony and an enchantingly beautiful one . |
| 4 | I was going to ask Jenette anyway , as it was coming up to my 40th birthday . ’ |
| 5 | Unfortunately this did not resolve the problem and in January 1991 , when W. was coming up towards her fifteenth birthday , it was necessary to resort to in-patient treatment . |