Example sentences of "[was/were] come [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some figures were coming up from the road to meet him , a girl and a couple of boys . |
| 2 | All went well until we were approaching Ramsgate and about to cross ahead of two coasters that were coming up from the south . |
| 3 | They were coming down from the Quarry , bigger engines . |
| 4 | Because when we were coming back from the park at er , no not the park where was we ? |
| 5 | Pete and Mum were coming back from the shops . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yes , worried folk were coming along from the Tower to Billingsgate , some carrying a few possessions . |
| 9 | It was coming over from the Empire , the colonies , as you know , and masses of grain coming in from America and Canada . |
| 10 | At the end of the third car , just past George Burley 's office , he stopped , because someone was coming out from the station to meet him : a gaunt man in a padded short coat with a fur collar , with grey hair blowing in disarray in the wind . |
| 11 | I was coming back from the labs at Menelaus , after some work detail or other . |
| 12 | In fact , it was coming back from the Tadcaster job that the old Atlas van that we had , blew up — the big ends just blew out of it and we had to dump it there and go . |
| 13 | She was the first to get to get to know about the lady whose husband was coming back from the Forces . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's funny you should ask because I bumped into her just as I was coming back from the loo . |
| 15 | Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors . |
| 16 | ‘ I was coming back from the shops and saw Frankie dodging between parked cars , ’ Monica said yesterday . |
| 17 | I was coming back from the shops the other day when I saw him get out of his car . |
| 18 | They had got into conversation one evening when Ianthe was coming back from the library where she worked , and it had reassured her — coming as a stranger to this rather doubtful neighbourhood — to meet somebody whom her mother would have described as a ‘ gentlewoman ’ . |
| 19 | As Roberto was coming down from the top of his back-swing , the spectators leaned forward on to the fencing causing a crack like thunder . |
| 20 | ‘ A harvest wagon was coming in from the field when suddenly the horses stopped and refused to go any further . |
| 21 | A breeze was coming in from the water , stirring the branches overhead and sending a low , unearthly moan through the woodland . |
| 22 | The night was dark and a fog was coming in from the river , but she hesitated . |
| 23 | Posi then told me that a comm-call was coming in from the Famlio ship , but I told her to ignore it . |
| 24 | Earlier on this week all that cloud was coming in from the north-west , now you can see it coming across from the west and as the weekend goes along , it will come in more from the south-west , so it will warm up a little bit . |
| 25 | Led by a small boy in shorts and singlet and over-large wellingtons , a herd of cows was coming in from the fields . |
| 26 | He was looking neither to the right nor the left but out to sea , where a round ship was coming in from the south-east , her sails shuddering , her course designed to intersect with the Genoese just outside the harbour . |