Example sentences of "coming [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're only coming for eleven weeks , and that of course starting in June , take some holidays , and |
| 2 | But immigration officials said no , believing she was coming for paid work . |
| 3 | In a characteristic show of intellectual bravado , de Gaulle now said that he had seen independence coming for twenty years or more . |
| 4 | She had delayed coming for twenty-four hours because she had a hair appointment . |
| 5 | He said he was coming for some gnocchi tonight . |
| 6 | Our Dave 's coming for us , he ca n't have all that time off , he 's coming for three weeks in er |
| 7 | Hope he 's not coming for three weeks |
| 8 | If its august it must be Fairport … for these fifty Americans … some of whom having been coming for ten years … their annual pilgrimage to Oxfordshire for the Fairport Convention festival starts with a meeting with the folk rock band in a local pub . |
| 9 | erm on the train coming through that Esso have withdrawn the sponsorship from sports in Scotland |
| 10 | You want , want to get the same amount , I mean we 've got a certain amount of water coming through that pipe , |
| 11 | No , there were no fishing boats coming through that day . |
| 12 | Winter barley was coming through new green . |
| 13 | The convoys had been coming through all week . |
| 14 | Grows in clear , flowing water coming through calciferous terrain . |
| 15 | The West saw revolution coming through military struggle , misunderstanding that the appeal of Communism was sociological and thus the struggle was political . |
| 16 | and a certain amount coming through this pipe . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not going to name anyone in particular but you are all aware of those who have been to Australia this winter with the A team , and they have all got a chance of coming through this summer especially some of the young bowlers . ’ |
| 18 | I ca n't complain about the windows cos o you know , I have n't had no draughts really but then you get parasites you know like fleas and bugs coming through these ventilations . |
| 19 | You were up to and over your knees in water in the trench : it was supposed to be our dug-out and it was coming through these bits o' wood and we were a-sodden wet through and cold . |
| 20 | He 'd heard the daily summary coming through some time after midnight , but he had n't bothered to check it ; anything important or relevant and Stoneley would have telephoned him direct , and there were too many big shadows and dark corners in the schoolroom for his liking . |
| 21 | Jimmy saw him coming through blurred vision and wished that he could get to his feet , but he could n't move . |
| 22 | Coming between two sounds . |
| 23 | As a consequence , the condition of the peasantry in twelfth-century France varied markedly from community to community' , the extremes of contrast coming between those villages on the royal demesne protected by the customs of Lorris , and those in Champagne where serfdom retained its original rigours , where peasants remained the property of their lords , their labour services heavy , their safeguards against exploitative lordship non-existent . |
| 24 | Apparently she 's got a problem that the oil pollution is coming off this site where they 're refurbishing the boilers . |
| 25 | Coming after five years of war , when for the first time there did seem to be a tiny light at the end of the tunnel , these new rockets were almost too much for our overstretched nerves , although the situation would no doubt have been very much worse if it had not been for the times when both the RAF and the American Air Force had been out bombing Peenemunde and the other rocket sites . |
| 26 | We all know is coming after this day dies . |
| 27 | and then he 's , he 's going out and they 're coming like that direction and he 's looked round and he 's seen the soldier , doing it , he 's gone and this is how I did it and then he put his , like this and he stuck his hands up and as his done that he 's got shot through the body from the side , what 's |
| 28 | Buses coming along that way ? |
| 29 | We still find Christian undergraduates entering universities , and ordinands coming into theological colleges , who have no idea of the tremendous advances that have been made in biblical scholarship and whose first contact with historical criticism is a dismaying and frightening experience instead of , as I think it ought to be , a liberating and wholly enhancing experience . |
| 30 | Newcomen died in 1729 , when his engines were coming into increasing use all over Europe as well as in Britain , and soon in America too , but he had gained little financial advantage from his invention . |