Example sentences of "[was/were] coming from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised slowly that the screams were coming from the kitchen . |
| 2 | It was a long time before his sobs subsided , and by then other , less ugly sounds were coming from the room downstairs . |
| 3 | He did n't bother to look back to see whether the shots were coming from the patrol boat or from the tender . |
| 4 | The majority of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century grave-clothes were still being manufactured in London but by the 1830s more were coming from the Lancashire area . |
| 5 | Very intimate sounds were coming from the cubicles , but it was n't until the girl who had beckoned her earlier on came out of one of them and pointed to another where the door was open , and whispered harshly , ‘ Do n't you want to go ? ’ that she realised , Yes ; yes , she did want to go . |
| 6 | Yet more men were coming from the crossroads and deploying left and right beyond the first two units . |
| 7 | At the turn of the century other ideas later to be seen as part of algebra were coming from the pen of Carl Friedrich Gauss , one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived . |
| 8 | They also worked towards and in alliance with the landed interest in the context of a low-profile , informal , state where there was a shared unease about the pressures for change that were coming from the lower social orders . |
| 9 | People were coming from the village in groups of two and three , a stealthy procession . |
| 10 | People were coming from the museum , some looking with open curiosity at Rain and Oliver . |
| 11 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 12 | The sounds of shouting and gunshots might have alarmed Ianthe had she not realised that they were coming from the television programme in the basement . |
| 13 | The laughter and voices were coming from the closed rooms at the end of the corridor that Ruth had christened the west wing . |
| 14 | A cold draught of air was coming from the kitchen and I found the back door to be wide open — and then my horrified glance fell upon Aunt Louise . |
| 15 | The perfume that had breathed sweetness over the cool stream was coming from the delicious brown girl . |
| 16 | The lorry , which was coming from the local gravel-pit , drew up , and the Arab driver put out his head : ‘ Where are you going ? ’ he asked in French . |
| 17 | With her thoughts far away and her eyes fixed on the distant horizon , she did not notice where she was going — and as the tall , broad-shouldered man who was coming from the opposite direction was too deeply absorbed in his own reflections to be aware of his surroundings , there was a sudden abrupt collision . |
| 18 | Everything was coming from the United States . |
| 19 | Well he was well he was coming from the Grove to the finger post to come along Wolverhampton Road , Lichfield Road , to come home to Church Street . |
| 20 | ‘ Thought the noise was coming from the radio . ’ |
| 21 | The music was coming from the closed door . |
| 22 | Just then we saw another boat , which was coming from the ship to the shore . |
| 23 | The Anarkali was dark and quiet and a lot of the light was coming from the candle between us . |
| 24 | By the time she reached the hall , it was clear the sound was coming from the study . |
| 25 | And also they sent some of them away down to the u the n the army that was coming from the south . |
| 26 | He chose the time carefully , lurked and caught Dersingham as he was coming from the stable yard after having driven himself out . |
| 27 | It was coming from the house — through a small hole in the wall . |
| 28 | The drip was coming from the bathroom on the other side of the landing opposite this room . |
| 29 | You knew the great winter was coming from the north . |
| 30 | I was coming from the road , I met Lil . |