Example sentences of "[was/were] come up to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as we were coming up to the laundry , Kaptan broke free of the Corporal and ran down the side of the building . |
| 2 | The underground revolution was coming up to the surface , although it was nowhere near breaking through . |
| 3 | What they , yes , what they done , they used to have a large long pull with a hook on and attached to a rope and as the ship was coming up to the river , they would throw this here pole on to a ship with a hook and then pay the rope out and then get towed up to the quay , the ship would n't stop for them to pick them up , pick that boat |
| 4 | I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop . |
| 5 | William completed his five-year stay in Clerkenwell successfully ; by the time it was over his brother Benjamin James was already down in Somerset and Charles Frederick was coming up to the age when he , too , would become an apprentice . |