Example sentences of "[was/were] come [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | but it 's lovely you know when we were coming past the playing fields , it 's erm I did n't |
2 | The laughter and voices were coming from the closed rooms at the end of the corridor that Ruth had christened the west wing . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | On July 23 the Foreign Ministry confirmed the terms it considered acceptable for an " allied multinational force " to be based in south-eastern Turkey : the force was to come under the joint command of Turkish and US commanders ; its ground element would be based at the US/NATO airfield at Incirlik and its air element at Silopi , with some facilities available at Batman in south-east Turkey ; any intervention against Iraq would need Turkish government approval ; and initial Turkish permission for the presence of the force would expire on Sept. 30 . |
5 | She could get them to broadcast an announcement for her , spread the word around the gallery that Mr James Worsdale was to come to the main entrance . |
6 | Andy Murdoch 's fine penalty save from Mark Hateley was a bitter pill for the home support to swallow but worse was to come in the 65th minute . |
7 | He was to come in the small hours , . |
8 | That was bad enough ; but worse yet was to come in the third stage . |
9 | But the views in winter are rather more spectacular , and although we were starting to feel that snow was coming on the strengthening wind , we at least enjoyed the open sweeping aspect to the south and east as we walked . |
10 | During the journey we were informed that tomorrow , we were going to go and see the Queen who was coming to the small town to visit the hospital . |
11 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
12 | A low , scudding cloudbank was coming off the western horizon , purple with unshed rain . |
13 | The applause , scattered at first , thickened , took on a note of real enthusiasm , and tinny music could be heard threading through it , and then J. J. Gerrard was coming through the wide entrance at the back of the dais , his rather fat face heavily serious over his pink shirt , walking purposefully to the chair in the center . |
14 | Who said and on which occasion : ‘ In church on Sunday it was lovely , and the sun was coming through the stained glass window and falling on some flowers . |
15 | The music was coming from the closed door . |
16 | He chose the time carefully , lurked and caught Dersingham as he was coming from the stable yard after having driven himself out . |
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 | 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 . |
19 | Because you , Neil 's already spoken to them about how late th the thing was coming in the first place no and they 've just ignored it ! |
20 | But she was coming round the next day to have lunch with him . ’ |
21 | He was coming inside the English Association with the hope of assuring himself that his own principles were being carried out by it . |