Example sentences of "[be] come [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're coming up to a bank holiday , and most people will be going away . |
| 2 | Mm yes but we 're coming up to a time when er the quantity of old people is going to be rather high than before because we 're all healthier . |
| 3 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 4 | Erm , I also suspect that one solution is erm not very satisfactory to one group of people and the other solution is not very satisfactory to another group of people and of course er since we are coming up to an election do n't want to offend either group of people . |
| 5 | The old Moscow publishers Iskusstvo managed to release just one book last year , and having exhausted its resources , it was forced to suspend publication of the journal Iskusstvo , which has been coming out for a number of decades . |
| 6 | ‘ Cissie wo n't be coming up for a while , ’ she said , making her way back to the bed , ‘ do you want to wait ? |
| 7 | I thought she must be coming down in a moment . |
| 8 | ‘ Malcolm may be coming in for a couple of days each week , ’ said Rofe . |
| 9 | Miranda will be coming in in a minute . |
| 10 | It is the purest form of finding out about an ancient site , but it does depend on the ability of the observer to distinguish information that may be coming in from a variety of sources . |
| 11 | So she said I 'm coming up in a fortnight 's time the fourteenth cos it 's David 's birthday that week |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm coming down for a night , ’ said Louise . |
| 13 | Yes I 'm coming down in a moment . |
| 14 | To our utter dismay and astonishment , he told us that our certificates meant nothing at all to him or BSAC and that ‘ even if Jacques Cousteau were to come along with a PADI qualification , no notice would be taken of it . ’ |
| 15 | Erm I think it 's also now pretty much common ground that the capacity of York city is around three thousand three hundred , but I think in in in taking an view on that , and in taking any view o on future windfalls , it is necessary for the panel to keep in mind that historically in the nineteen eighties windfalls were coming through at a time when it was not a adopted local plan for the city of York , so to some extent anything by definition of a substantial size was likely to be a windfall , erm , but also more to the point than that definitional point , I would expect to see , and I think what Mr Curtis has said earlier on that the local plan is likely to tighten up on criteria for release of sites , both small and large , he referred to the shortage of open space , and I would expect to see a policy change in short , a policy climate change , within the city of York that would constrain past historical rates of windfall release . |
| 16 | We were coming up to a twist in the precipitous road ; as we swung round it , the wheels screamed and we seemed to swerve towards the edge of the precipice . |
| 17 | I says I 've already told you about it , she says yeah I know she says but you 're going for some petrol tonight , I just wondered if you were coming up for an hour tonight . |
| 18 | She and Hattie said they were coming around for a cup of tea . |
| 19 | which is to come up with a word |
| 20 | The problem is to come up with an analysis and structure which is not only reasonably clear and self-consistent in terms of concepts of knowledge , but which maps on to and helps to explain the curricular structures that are already in place . |
| 21 | The problem now is finding the right sort of staff reliable ladies with their own transport as more people realise how nice it is to come back to a house someone else has cleaned . ’ |
| 22 | Let mummy just watch the news then I think Playbus is coming on in a moment . |
| 23 | He is coming over for a tour which culminates in the Edinburgh Festival , and he will be promoting both this and his third Easy Rawlins tale . |
| 24 | Rudy Johnson , the guy on this month 's cover , is coming out with a deck , and there 's also a new Dune Pastras model . |
| 25 | No you you do n't have to rub out the line you can just draw another one as if it 's coming out from a bit you ca n't see . |
| 26 | His brief was to come up with a recipe for a high-growth food with cost ( within reason ) no object . |
| 27 | ‘ All I did was come out for a walk before going to bed , and I was about by that place where the bank 's caved in , when somebody jumped me from behind . |
| 28 | A nerve jiggled at the corner of Meredith 's mouth because she was beginning to piece small bits of information together and was coming up with a heap of worries . |
| 29 | He dismissed suggestions that the country was coming out of a recession . |
| 30 | Mr Ross was coming out of a door . |