Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] coming [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mummy said I need n't bring it back , as it was old and the twigs were coming out of it . ’ |
| 2 | I also remember being extremely ashamed at some of the racist chants the Leeds fans were coming out with that night . |
| 3 | ‘ Loads of kids were coming up to us and complaining that their dads were getting on their backs about their garages being full of paper . |
| 4 | ‘ All our fighters were coming in now — the noise was tremendous — bombs , guns and engines mingled in discordant sound . |
| 5 | For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons . |
| 6 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 7 | Conker slowed a little , but the branches were coming too fast , he had to lean right forward and could n't use his hands . |
| 8 | and erm then some of the people like er er in London started out erm making shades or er fittings which were erm quite at home in the house er or in the office and erm these were , well that is one design of them the wall back is to match you see , er but you could equally er , put those into erm hotel bedroom or something or er hotel lounge somewhere there , erm or you can get them large with more lamps in them I think and all sorts of new designs were coming out mainly in , in plastic er and erm |
| 9 | It was quite painful , especially as the time went on and the contractions were coming closer together . |
| 10 | The contractions were coming quite quickly but they just did n't feel like proper contractions . |
| 11 | It was true that the chains ' capacity for negotiating good deals made it hard for the family-run business to keep going , and they had many letters offering businesses for sale , and the price of shops was coming down all the time . |
| 12 | Where , with red lights flashing , the barriers were coming down . |
| 13 | The Board of Visitors were coming round and I was going to tell them , so that 's why they shipped us out to Askham Grange open prison . |
| 14 | The lines were coming out as written , but the play was dying a slow death . |
| 15 | If he had n't been put into the jail , I do n't know what would have been the result today but … before he even had his jail sentence served , applications were coming in from town an in that short space of time about 1966 , our church more than doubled in membership and in churches . |
| 16 | Peasants from nearby gubernii were coming in and exporting wheat . |
| 17 | Writs were coming in from every direction . |
| 18 | The first arrivals were coming out of Customs now : two middle-aged couples , a crowd of kids who looked like students , a family with four children and grandma , a man who looked as if he had been drinking on the plane , his collar undone and his tie hanging . |
| 19 | ’ British pop evolved from R&B dance culture , but while the working classes were coming home from the factory and putting on some Motown , the people who now run record companies were at university listening to Genesis or Peter Frampton or whatever — their only contact with pop culture was Gary Glitter or Sweet . |
| 20 | Noses to the ground , the dogs were coming on at an fast , distance-consuming lope . |
| 21 | Thousands of flags were waving , helium balloons were going up and air balloons were coming down , two separate bands at both ends of the huge auditorium were playing different songs and everyone was cheering and screaming their heads off . |
| 22 | It was about how the unconscious was taking over and the Revelations were coming down … |
| 23 | Everywhere he looked things were coming apart . |
| 24 | The bombers were coming back . |
| 25 | ‘ The memories were coming back . |
| 26 | It turned out that my suspicions were unfounded , but all the time my memories were coming back . |
| 27 | Marx , in particular , had already noted this fact in several places , but he explained the phenomenon of internal division as a transitional one ; as evidence of a stage in which private property and individual families were coming in and undermining the communal descent group . |
| 28 | Some figures were coming up from the road to meet him , a girl and a couple of boys . |
| 29 | something I mean we moved out of the flats , partly because the flats were coming down , |
| 30 | Then reverse curves were coming up and the train ran through the first curve but was going too fast for the next one and the train left the track , killing certainly the driver and fireman and one or two passengers , I believe . |