Example sentences of "coming [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In effect this has meant approximately 400,000 new and inexperienced customers coming on to the overseas market each year , and it is this that has kept the traditional inclusive tour package alive .
2 There will thus be an increase in the supply of pounds coming on to the foreign exchange market .
3 This will therefore lead to an increase in the supply of pounds coming on to the foreign exchange markets .
4 ‘ Itsi ’ won his cap eighteen years ago , coming on in the dying seconds of an 8–1 victory over Hong Kong .
5 The level of imports increased by 300% between 1985 and 1986 , coming predominantly from the Eastern bloc , North Africa , and the Middle East .
6 coming together under the full blossom
7 However , a good deal of tension is created at this point , with the bass playing the expected D while the accompanying chords are first a G major , then an Amin7 , finally releasing this tension by coming together on the sustained D major , which leads positively into the beginning of the next verse , a G major .
8 Where a man can become more male and a woman more female by coming together in the full rigors of the fuck … homosexuals , it can be suggested , tend to pass their qualities over to one another , for there is no womb to mirror and return what is most forceful or attractive in each of them .
9 Creggan was watching the group of people coming along from the other direction and making a lot of noise .
10 Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers .
11 Are you coming down to the great burrow ? "
12 Now this is a a British lorry coming down in the offside lane , cos it 's only two lanes .
13 You 're in the nearside lane and you 're going uphill and er you 're trunking away quite nicely , you see a guy coming down in the fast lane , down the hill getting a bit of a roll on , fully laden , and he gets halfway up the hill , he runs out of steam and he 's looking for a hole to get into .
14 The Macaber , the hooded , skeletal apparition , coming down from the Black Tower to dance amongst the plague-ridden townships of the Middle Ages , leading them in the dread danse macabre , forcing them to dance with him until they dropped …
15 We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains .
16 From his new station he could see the three lakes — Loweswater , Crummock Water and Buttermere — lined up in the valley like three barges ready to be towed down to the shore ; he could see the bivouac huts of some woodmen and he spotted more than one flock coming down from the high pastures — but Mary chided him .
17 er he wants money coming in to the central fund er if has in two years time to face a , a trial , these allegations so be it , but meanwhile he wants the money to come in to the central fund for the reason he 's outlined
18 ‘ Did you now ? ’ said Hilary , coming in to the sick bay , which was really no more than a scruffy little room with only a slight hospital smell about it to bespeak its function .
19 Here , in bad weather , there are reputed to be spectacular collisions between the seawater coming in on the westerly winds and the fresh water trying to get out .
20 Painfully , looking up at him , she saw a good strong profile , sandy hair tipped with gold from the sun coming in through the lace-curtained window .
21 But Marc 's business in the stable must have only taken a minute because he was coming in through the great oak doors even before she reached the foot of the stairs .
22 In addition to the students coming in through the normal channels , two non-uniform routes have emerged during the eighties .
23 I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door .
24 She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak .
25 There was a long silence and they lay absolutely still and grew cold together in the draught coming in under the closed door .
26 But coming in from the shabby streets outside , which smell of coal and cement dust and Wartburg exhausts , the effect is of life and excitement .
27 He knew that Garvey 's eyes could see nothing , coming in from the relative lightness outdoors .
28 A restructuring is under way — John McIntyre , vice-president of European Operations has gone , and Europe is now being split into two : the UK , where Engels has recently been appointed managing director , and the continent , where Terry Hall is coming in from the Australian operation to take charge .
29 These are believed to result , at least in part , from sewage pollution , although there is some evidence that nutrients are also coming in from the open sea .
30 He would look in the summer-house before coming in by the back door but he seldom found me there now .
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