Example sentences of "coming [adv] [adv prt] to 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 | ‘ Drop the gun ! ’ screamed Liz Spalding , her body dropping slightly to a crouch , the gun she held coming instinctively up to the fire position … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her flatmate , Carolyn Bartholomew , recalls : ‘ Prince Charles was coming quietly on to the scene . |