Example sentences of "coming [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pregnant replies , mystic allusions , mistaken identities , arguing his father is his mother , that sort of thing ; intimations of suicide , foregoing of exercise , loss of mirth , hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment ; invocations of camels , chameleons , capons , whales , weasels , hawks , handsaws — riddles , quibbles and evasions ; amnesia , paranoia , myopia ; day-dreaming , hallucinations ; stabbing his elders , abusing his parents , insulting his lover , and appearing hatless in public — knock-kneed , droop-stockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy , which at his age is coming on a bit strong . |
| 2 | She could see the ground for a distance round the beech-tree , and as she gazed down she noticed a man coming along a path a short distance away . |
| 3 | So it 's coming down a bit . |
| 4 | You 're on the main part of the carriageway , and coming in on the left there is this traffic coming down a slip road to join you . |
| 5 | ‘ We used to have these games , like we used to have this big trunk , and we used to call that ‘ the dream machine ’ and we used to get all things like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs coming down a conveyer belt , lasers , spaceships , everything . ’ |
| 6 | Now , the er , whilst we can not expect them to adopt say our ideals , because we are er , you know , we 're probably more modernised in lots of ways , but we can set a standard which they work towards , and er , he mentioned about the fact that people er , the unemployment 's coming down a lot with the jobs , they 're just part-time jobs , and they 're very cheap paid jobs , and very er bad conditions for a lot of people as far as health and safety goes . |
| 7 | Coffin heard feet coming down the staircase from the upper floor of the house . |
| 8 | The roar of the water coming down the gully drummed at my ears as I inched the Toyota into the bend . |
| 9 | It was virtually a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and very sharp , the culvert blocked with stone and the remains of a small tree , so that the full volume of the water coming down the gully was swirling across the track to disappear over the edge , thundering down into the main gorge of the Jequetepeque . |
| 10 | So my sisters er When we was coming down the lanes , now them country lanes , were n't all done nice , they were grass , where the carts used to come through . |
| 11 | Coming down the scale a little , another pair of helical mirror images is provided by the cochleae , the frequency analysers in our ears . |
| 12 | ‘ Mariana 's coming down the meadow . |
| 13 | Which is traffic coming down the A sixty one and heading west on the A fifty nine . |
| 14 | Someone had called an ambulance , and it must be coming down the service road now . |
| 15 | Certainly a Glory was coming down the factory drive . |
| 16 | She thought she heard someone coming down the passage , so she grabbed two paper towels and wrapped them round the offending literature . |
| 17 | Coming down the passage towards her was Cobalt . |
| 18 | This time he could almost hear a patient sigh coming down the telephone . |
| 19 | They were skiing more slowly now , coming down the valley with Castell Rocamar like something out of a fairy-tale at its head . |
| 20 | Is anybody coming down the grubber . |
| 21 | Anybody coming down the grubber . |
| 22 | erm And the cultivators coming down the logging roads , I agree entirely . |
| 23 | You were coming down the Pheasant pub then were you ? |
| 24 | Light coming down the barrel is focussed by a small plastic lens onto the photo-diode and the device is sensitive enough to detect the changes in intensity of the picture . |
| 25 | ‘ The omnibus coming down the rue du Bac , ’ replied the young man . |
| 26 | Trev 's Browning skipper Tony Marti said : ‘ We fished a Super League practise session last September and we saw an oil slick coming down the canal then . |
| 27 | Well yes and they were it was you know the What impressed me also you know what it 's like when you go to these places I can remember going not so long ago to Blenheim and er just about to examine something and this thundering voice coming down the hallway , Do not touch . |
| 28 | Their world is being turned upside down by the cable revolution and the string of multimedia technologies coming down the pike , but US telephone companies — both local and long-distance — will maintain strong credit quality throughout the 1990s despite major competitive , regulatory and technological challenges , Moody 's Investors Service Inc concludes in its annual report on the industry . |
| 29 | ‘ I never thought you could run like that , Sarah , ’ said Angela , coming down the slope and joining them . |
| 30 | Their brakes must have locked as they were coming down the slope , for there was a twenty-yard slice of chocolate loam where their wheels had scoured the turf . |