Example sentences of "[was/were] coming [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trio of skinheads were coming up the pavement , and some kids on bikes came by , saw them and started to circle back . |
| 2 | He looked unbelieving and said , ‘ But surely you remember when we were going down the eighth , you were coming up the ninth , and I waved and your wife waved back , and then you waved . ’ |
| 3 | Crowds of people were coming down the quays , all heading eastwards . |
| 4 | Tony Milton and his assistant , thank goodness , were coming down the ninth fairway on an electric buggy . |
| 5 | Their brakes must have locked as they were coming down the slope , for there was a twenty-yard slice of chocolate loam where their wheels had scoured the turf . |
| 6 | You were coming down the Pheasant pub then were you ? |
| 7 | Tony sat it out — in my tent I feel obliged to tell him — listening for the noise of a train , a noise that meant the wind was coming up the defile between him and the sea . |
| 8 | I believe I had the same two horses in that wagon ; and I was coming up the Bungay road past Mr Charlie Skinner 's , and the yardman let them cows out to water , d'ye see , like they allus do every morning after they had milking done . |
| 9 | She was coming up the central passage between the rows of tables . |
| 10 | No , no , if you got called away there would n't be anybody to take over until the next relief if , if the man was coming up the dock with two yo yo well you would n't be able to get in touch with him either . |
| 11 | but that was n't with flood water coming over , that was because it was coming up the drains , cos it could n't drain into the river |
| 12 | By Tesco 's it was it was coming out the field . |
| 13 | I could 've come earlier cos I 've been over Tracey 's since quarter past one , as I was coming out the Jehovah Witnesses were coming out |
| 14 | Certainly a Glory was coming down the factory drive . |
| 15 | So my sisters er When we was coming down the lanes , now them country lanes , were n't all done nice , they were grass , where the carts used to come through . |
| 16 | The sound indicated that she was coming down the mast . |