Example sentences of "coming [prep] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We came down and realised there was water coming through the back door and the walls . |
| 2 | But next day I 'm coming along the High Street when I meet little Darius — you know him ? — and he says there 's two guys broke into my flat and they 're waiting for me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , of course , Mrs Diggory , ’ Theda said , coming into the little room and closing the door on the housekeeper 's conspiratorial signal . |
| 4 | If the queries coming into the public relations or press office are short questions they can usually be answered on the spot , but quite often they will be in the form of a general request for information on a specific topic and it could be that your organisation has in its files a good deal of material which could be sent out . |
| 5 | He 'd give us funny stories — the Colonel coming in the front door while Luke left through the back . |
| 6 | Now the amount received does n't look so wonderful with £600 coming from the regular saving and the measly £97.70 coming from interest earned . |
| 7 | I recognized some pirated recordings of Sade in cabaret coming from the upper floor and , louder , some mid-period John Coltrane from the living-room . |
| 8 | Coming from the critical position that they do , the conservative-historians have little difficulty in deciding whether or not the changes they have identified in either post-war sexual morality , or legislation relating to sexual morality , can be plausibly described as ‘ permissive ’ . |
| 9 | The genus has extraordinarily wide origins , with different species coming from the whole length and breadth of Europe , the Middle East , Persia , Afghanistan , India , China , Japan and across to the North American continent . |
| 10 | Most active construction is coming from the smaller chains and operators like Quality Inns . |
| 11 | Er I think that , that my recollection of the last meeting was that if we could just knock together a Northumberland newsletter a unison newsletter that 's quite clearly coming from the three organizations that represent the membership in Northumberland it would be better than th this national stuff has one union on it , as I see it at the moment . |
| 12 | And make no mistake , although this has been introduced in a piecemeal and seemingly haphazard manner , it is in effect a well thought out policy , with the strategy coming from the Tory think-tanks and implemented with gusto by their close friends and allies in both public and private industry . |
| 13 | ‘ Even when there is not an immediate project in view , we have regular regional meetings with the district and county councils , with a lot of initiative also coming from the Welsh Office and the Development Boards for Rural Wales , ’ says Mark Causebrook , director for Regional Railways ( Central Area ) . |
| 14 | Erm and I would I would want to try and do some er organize some press coverage at that time for the losers as well as for the winner so that a a and one of the things when we select the participants , er the entrants , er we will not have them all coming from the same school or from the same area , even if the five best entrants all do come from the same school . |
| 15 | Coming from the same background as those on the front line gives Tony Davidson of Provincial Insurance a mission to explain all the business 's activities , says Neil Fitzgerald . |
| 16 | On now to Barry Humphries ' autobiography , More Please ( Penguin ) ; Carol ( second wife of Walter ) Matthau 's memoirs Among the Porcupines ( Orion ) ; Ranulph Fiennes ' search for the city of Ubar ( the Koranic version of Sodom and Gomorrah ) , Atlantis of the Sands ( Penguin ) : A N Wilson 's Jesus ( Flamingo ) , coming at the same time as Barbara Thiering 's Jesus the Man ( Corgi ) , as they also did in hardcover ; and Miranda Seymour 's much-praised life of Ottoline Morrell ( Sceptre ) , £25 in hardcover and so welcome as a £7 or £8 paperback . |
| 17 | A classic mix of myth , fairy tale and adventure , coming at the same time as Faery in Shadow ( C format , £8.99 ) and being promoted with it . |
| 18 | Reynolds , sidelined for 2-years by a disputed doping suspension , made the most of his first appearance back on the world 's stage as he caught Nigerian Sunday Bada coming around the final curve and won going away . |