Example sentences of "was coming [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Jed was coming up to five years old , very bright but also very quiet … so quiet that she worried sometimes , wondering if there were things wrong that he was n't telling her .
2 No , it was coming out in great lumps and very big patches .
3 The waiter was coming by with more glasses of champagne .
4 The snow was coming down in thick flakes , adding to the unreal appearance as they chugged slowly from one bank to the other , and she was delighted that they stopped at every single stop .
5 But within minutes , confirmation was coming in on all sides : from our headquarters in London , from the teleprinter flashes , from national newspaper reporters stunned like us and now eager to hear what we thought about it .
6 So everything was coming in on different lines ?
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