Example sentences of "coming [adv prt] with a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ That 's the tables done , ’ Sally said , coming in with a great draught that stirred the fire and puffed curls of smoke from under the mantel-shelf . |
2 | If it was someone coming in with a nasty attitude really filthy , scruffy , dirty , no fixed address because they lived in er er , an old wagon some where |
3 | It 's staring right up at me , like it knows exactly what I 'm thinking , like it knows I have n't got a dream of ever coming up with a first sentence . |
4 | The moguls are coming up with a new gimmick to get audiences to see movies they have ALREADY seen . |
5 | SCOTTISH Amicable has just spent two years coming up with a new logo based on its Amicable Man image . |
6 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
7 | He went back to the bike and unlocked one of the panniers , coming back with a colourful helmet . |
8 | ‘ It 's a queer sort of crossing of Greenland … coming back with a sick sheep . ’ |
9 | Ymor shifted his bulk out of the chair and crossed the room , coming back with a large raven . |
10 | And the astonishingly big calf coming out with a slippery rush and then , a few minutes later , standing up in the straw on its thin , wobbly legs , its thickly lashed eyes mild and brown like its mother 's . |
11 | high I 'm only coming out with a ten flush , pair of aces , and a pair of eights would have been mine whichever way you played it . |