Example sentences of "coming [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke taunted softly , coming right up to the desk behind which she stood , having risen instinctively when Penny had told her he was here — a betrayal , she knew , but she could not have faced him sitting down . |
| 2 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 3 | And you 've all seen and probably participated in the scene where a sequence of such meeting is brought to its climax by one partner coming right out with the movie cliché ‘ We ca n't go on meeting like this ’ or less effectively ‘ Long time no see ! ’ |
| 4 | Extraordinary how events coming right out of the blue can change things . |
| 5 | ‘ Drop the gun ! ’ screamed Liz Spalding , her body dropping slightly to a crouch , the gun she held coming instinctively up to the fire position … |
| 6 | He dreamed of a multitude of chandeliers , all lit up with candles , coming slowly down from the ceiling , while he and his sister Mary watched . |
| 7 | The extraordinary thing was , you could see them coming down on to the leaves as you passed and waving their heads around , sniffing , and when you were underneath they would just drop and go straight down your neck , or on to your ears , hundreds of them . |
| 8 | Sgt. Bamberger then spotted four more coming down out of the sun ( these were likely to have been four of the original six , making their second swoop ) . |
| 9 | He warned MacLachlan , who recorded : ‘ Just as I took my place in the circle I saw four more Messerschmitts coming down out of the sun . |
| 10 | She did not see the S.S.O. coming quickly out of the library and crossing the entrance . |
| 11 | Ben Tillett , Tom McCarthy and Tom Mann , general secretary , organizer and president respectively of an enlarged Dockers ' Union became the original strike leaders , with John Burns coming later on to the scene . |
| 12 | He watched the Pfalz D VIIs coming up out of the east , with all the loathing and resignation of a slum-dweller who sea yet another street-brawl lurching his way . |
| 13 | The existence of the continuum means that policies made by the centre are changed by information and guidance coming back up from the locality . |
| 14 | Coming back round by the house for the third time , she got quite above herself , and the bike began to wobble alarmingly as she fought to control it . |
| 15 | And that 's the only time you 're going to find it when you 're linking the heart and the lungs , now look at those two areas where you 've got blood coming back down into the heart , can you see those two wishbones there coming back down into the heart , do you see where I mean , yes ? |
| 16 | And that 's the only time you 're going to find it when you 're linking the heart and the lungs , now look at those two areas where you 've got blood coming back down into the heart , can you see those two wishbones there coming back down into the heart , do you see where I mean , yes ? |
| 17 | They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life . |
| 18 | Coming out on to the landing he was horrified to find Eleanor mounting the stairs , this time wearing a thick tweed trouser suit with a scarf wrapped round her throat , presumably as some sort of protection against the peasouper outside which he knew , to his cost , had already infiltrated his lodgings and was making him cough . |
| 19 | Coming on duty , on what must have been the third morning for our ‘ C ’ cases I met Sister Hancock coming unsteadily down from the theatre . |
| 20 | Their house was on the main road coming uphill out of the town centre . |
| 21 | Her flatmate , Carolyn Bartholomew , recalls : ‘ Prince Charles was coming quietly on to the scene . |