Example sentences of "[be] come [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 and if you 're coming for a few days you 've , you 've bag carrying and all this in the business
2 so that 's fine like if you 're coming off a dual carriageway , maybe you 'll see that
3 A GROWING number of rape victims are coming to a Teesside-based support group for help .
4 Rob and family are coming for a long weekend , so we sha n't have our usual Christmas Day picnic this year , but we 'd much rather have their company .
5 If you go to a restaurant , it is worth telephoning beforehand to inform the staff that you are coming with a disabled person , so that you can reserve a table at a convenient distance from the front door or the toilet .
6 ‘ I 've been coming as a mere visitor .
7 The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well .
8 Not only that , but the beams appeared to be coming at a faster rate now — more than once a second .
9 His eyes seemed to be coming from a long way away .
10 He felt a peculiar sense of dislocation , and the sounds of those in the room seemed to be coming from a great distance away .
11 Very often this will be coming from a different department , who should be alerted in good time .
12 BTW Gav … well be coming in a blue mini , not the escort …
13 If it were to come to a physical fight with Nutty McTavish he doubted if he would win , for she was a formidable thirteen-year-old with a fighting spirit unmatched by any of her male counterparts in the class .
14 Yes you were coming into a small bedroom with a
15 ‘ He had a knack of jumping on roundabouts just when they were coming to a dead stop . ’
16 It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door .
17 We said it would be difficult , erm and that discussion has proved how difficult it is to come to a firm conclusion .
18 But if Mr 's argument is that windfalls and recycled land are as it were free of any environmental penalties and can be added to his thirty one thousand , then I think that er the way to treat that is to come to a higher number which takes them properly into account .
19 Above all , and most curiously of all , it is to come to a deeper knowledge of the inexplicable mercy of God , and of that fierce love that simply will not let his world go .
20 One of the men in the physiology department of the university here is taking them tomorrow as he is to stay with for a week , who is due home c. 13th and then the judge in whose house I so often stay in London IS coming for a long weekend c. 19th and then I have two or three B&B bods for Festival , giving up our bedroom ( UGH ) .
21 COURTAULDS is coming through a difficult trading period in reasonable health .
22 We inspect the drains via three manhole covers and establish that the oil is coming from a certain area in which there are a number of cam-cutting machines .
23 It is coming from a third-party source that Data General declines to identify , and is already used in high-end sites .
24 whether the Germans would be , I mean if it 's coming from a German T V station but do they broadcast American you know , English speaking programmes there in Germany
25 In the last game when we lost two players in the same position the last thing I wanted was to come to a quick decision with my brain still buzzing after a training session .
26 The Company 's management evidently came to the conclusion that the only effective way to avoid the expense of lifting the rails , was to come to a speedy agreement with the L.C.C .
27 Their fun , courtesy of the Conservative Party , was to come at a later stage .
28 We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track !
29 The Labour government found itself under pressure from three directions : from the left wing , largely concentrated in the ILP ; from the TUC , which , under the leadership of Citrine and Bevin , was coming to a new view of the causes of unemployment , one based upon the writings of John Maynard Keynes ; and from Sir Oswald Mosley and his supporters .
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