Example sentences of "[vb past] been coming [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The patient 's name was Wayne Benfield and he 'd been coming into the centre for daily dressings to an injured ankle .
2 I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift .
3 And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about .
4 She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out .
5 The convoys had been coming through all week .
6 Ethel shook her head in puzzlement , but a gleam had been coming into Eames 's eyes .
7 I remember one bloke who was part of a working class West London crowd that had been coming into the shop since the early days .
8 We had been coming onto the main road at about five miles an hour when three men had blocked our exit .
9 Bristol had previously been heavily involved in the Iceland trade , but had been coming under pressure from increasing Hanse power there , and its merchants may well have been looking for alternative supplies of fish — it is worth stressing that the ships sent out in 1481 in search of the ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ were carrying a large quantity of salt ( 45 , pp.188–9 ; 94 , pp.177–82 ) .
10 She was not unexpected ; she had been coming for months .
11 Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English .
12 Even more part of it than Rosie , who had been coming for years .
13 Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him .
14 Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony .
15 Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame .
16 He had been coming to Hawaii since he was thirteen and competing since he was seventeen .
17 Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ .
18 Sheriff 's Deputy Mark Ray said Salata had been coming to the secure Polo Club development , where 23-year-old Steffi has a home , at least three times a day for three days in an attempt to see her .
19 The elder of the two had been coming to the house for nigh on fifteen years .
20 The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress .
21 She had been coming to Alexandria , to the Hotel Normandie , for a few weeks every spring for almost forty years .
22 And er an interesting thing had been coming to our house She comes goes to the same church .
23 Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her .
24 Margo Hawes , of Horsforth , said she had been coming to the ballet for years .
25 She had not been able to work out where the noise had been coming from .
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