Example sentences of "[was/were] come [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But more people were coming on to the paper . |
| 2 | It was raining softly and , because it was early evening , lights were coming on around the airport . |
| 3 | Just as we were coming up to the laundry , Kaptan broke free of the Corporal and ran down the side of the building . |
| 4 | Some figures were coming up from the road to meet him , a girl and a couple of boys . |
| 5 | All went well until we were approaching Ramsgate and about to cross ahead of two coasters that were coming up from the south . |
| 6 | Daffodils were coming up in the garden but it would be dark when his guests came to the house to eat their meal . |
| 7 | All their backs were coming up like the clappers . |
| 8 | Fearful anticipation had proved somewhat worse than the event , and most Viennese were coming round to the opinion that , whatever the failings of Napoleon 's men , they were at least an improvement upon the Hapsburgs ' Russian allies , whom everyone loathed . |
| 9 | Third did he ? the first which was the Sunday and he had to get it ready because they were coming in on the Tuesday , on the third . |
| 10 | On the far bank white oxen were coming down to the water . |
| 11 | and it went up into those they were coming down in the minibus and er we stopped so the I ca n't remember where we stopped . |
| 12 | They were coming down from the Quarry , bigger engines . |
| 13 | Because when we were coming back from the park at er , no not the park where was we ? |
| 14 | Pete and Mum were coming back from the shops . |
| 15 | An NCO clutching a grenade marched up to the barrier and Kahane told him that they were coming back from the front and were in a hurry . |
| 16 | One evening when they were coming back from the hunt , he pretended to be someone else and , all alone , jumped on Albuin pretending that he was going to steal by violence the horse Albuin was mounted on . |
| 17 | Yes , worried folk were coming along from the Tower to Billingsgate , some carrying a few possessions . |
| 18 | Er men were coming , young men were coming out of the forces and er they wanted their jobs back and er I began to wonder what was going to happen to me , if , because I was on the temporary staff and erm there was no guarantee that I 'd be able to stay erm , and then of course erm I was thinking of probably getting married and erm er the salary at that stage was n't er , was n't very much to get married on . |
| 19 | On the other side of the yard , the first of the City 's homeless were coming out of the union . |
| 20 | They were coming out of the end of the hangar now . |
| 21 | And they used to bring us girls chocolates ; because when they were coming out of the dining-room , anything nice ( they had n't time to take off their gloves ) anything nice that was left in the dishes they used to pinch a piece and eat it . |
| 22 | Jotan and the others were coming out of the audience chamber now . |
| 23 | Then I felt the post begin to slide upwards through my hands , as if more of it were coming out of the ground . |
| 24 | But as we were coming out of the doorway , running across there , sidling round the side was the inspector . |
| 25 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 26 | The day shift was coming up into the twilight , miners with tired and miserable faces trooping out , their clothes as tattered as those of the miners in the Borinage . |
| 27 | They ran side by side , easy with training , breathless only with amazement , and now the sun was coming up over the edge of the sea and the whole world was sharp and glittery , concrete and weeds , and the barbed wire hanging drops of dew and spiders ' webs . |
| 28 | A thick , gold moon was coming up over the sea , glittering on the roofs of the town below them . |
| 29 | Thinking how quiet she 'd gone when he said he was coming up for the funeral and how she 'd seemed to withdraw into herself . |
| 30 | The underground revolution was coming up to the surface , although it was nowhere near breaking through . |