Example sentences of "she had [be] coming " in BNC.

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1 Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony .
2 She had been coming to Alexandria , to the Hotel Normandie , for a few weeks every spring for almost forty years .
3 She was not unexpected ; she had been coming for months .
4 A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small .
5 Margo Hawes , of Horsforth , said she had been coming to the ballet for years .
6 Why hide from him the facts that she had been coming since ?
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