Example sentences of "[been] coming [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been coming regularly for almost sixty years , and was only fourteen when he bought his first pony there for £4.10s . |
| 2 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 3 | Dave did n't bother to shave until the evenings , and Colin 's shoes had been coming away at the sides for weeks . |
| 4 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 5 | It means you 've — you 've been coming on to me … ’ |
| 6 | Yeah cos I 've been coming round at , cos you said I 'm in all day , you know sort of any time . |
| 7 | Contrary to reports of declining sales , there have even been rises in circulation , readership and ad revenue ( slowly , but surely , the agencies have been coming round to Punch 's point-of-view ) . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's a chap — he 's been coming round for years going on and on at me about buying the table . |
| 9 | Some fear reprisals if they did so , although tourists have been coming here for years to fish for trout and salmon . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 11 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |
| 12 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 13 | Citalia customers have been coming here for over 30 years and find simple accommodation and furnishings — fresh and spotlessly kept . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 15 | They 've been coming here for over 60 years and even a recession wo n't spoil the festive spirit . |
| 16 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 17 | For years , sewage solids have been coming ashore between the two Forth bridges . |
| 18 | ‘ We have been disappointed , ’ says the review , ‘ that issues have not been coming forward for a ruling before positions have been taken . |
| 19 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 20 | ‘ So she 's been coming down with you , has she ? ’ asked Greg . |
| 21 | The food to feed this hungry nation has been coming in through Mogadishu 's port . |
| 22 | Always considered a soft touch for your face , these products have currently been coming in for more scrutiny . |
| 23 | Also there were the people who 'd been coming in to the shop when it was still Let It Rock . |
| 24 | The signal is dated 1 August 1942 and states that a stream of messages had been coming in from Stirling in the desert regarding the shipment of supplies by Bombays for delivery on 4 August . |
| 25 | The wolves have been coming in from eastern Europe where they fled to escape hunters and human population expansion . |
| 26 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This must be the first year when new rock boot models have n't been coming out of everyone 's ears . |
| 29 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 30 | The problem is that more has been coming out of the pot than going into it over recent years . |