Example sentences of "had [be] coming [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The convoys had been coming through all week . |
| 2 | Ethel shook her head in puzzlement , but a gleam had been coming into Eames 's eyes . |
| 3 | I remember one bloke who was part of a working class West London crowd that had been coming into the shop since the early days . |
| 4 | We had been coming onto the main road at about five miles an hour when three men had blocked our exit . |
| 5 | Bristol had previously been heavily involved in the Iceland trade , but had been coming under pressure from increasing Hanse power there , and its merchants may well have been looking for alternative supplies of fish — it is worth stressing that the ships sent out in 1481 in search of the ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ were carrying a large quantity of salt ( 45 , pp.188–9 ; 94 , pp.177–82 ) . |
| 6 | She was not unexpected ; she had been coming for months . |
| 7 | Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English . |
| 8 | Even more part of it than Rosie , who had been coming for years . |
| 9 | Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him . |
| 10 | Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony . |
| 11 | Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame . |
| 12 | He had been coming to Hawaii since he was thirteen and competing since he was seventeen . |
| 13 | Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ . |
| 14 | Sheriff 's Deputy Mark Ray said Salata had been coming to the secure Polo Club development , where 23-year-old Steffi has a home , at least three times a day for three days in an attempt to see her . |
| 15 | The elder of the two had been coming to the house for nigh on fifteen years . |
| 16 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 17 | She had been coming to Alexandria , to the Hotel Normandie , for a few weeks every spring for almost forty years . |
| 18 | And er an interesting thing had been coming to our house She comes goes to the same church . |
| 19 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 20 | Margo Hawes , of Horsforth , said she had been coming to the ballet for years . |
| 21 | She had not been able to work out where the noise had been coming from . |