Example sentences of "coming [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the only occasion when I personally remember seeing a wicketkeeper coming on to bowl and it may be the earliest such occasion in a first-class game . |
| 2 | The usurper 's army had indeed proceeded on down Annandale , almost certainly to link up with another large Galloway force collected by Sir Walter Comyn and Henry Balliol , Edward 's brother , from their estates in that province , many thousands strong , the reason why Sir Archibald had not risked coming on to Edinburgh . |
| 3 | The main aim of this study is to investigate the way young people coming on to labour market in Northern ireland for the first time cope with stress of unemployment and in particular to investigate factors that might moderate any negative impact unemployment may have , such as participation in the Youth training programme . |
| 4 | Kids ' stuff : Kevin Thomas , Hearts ' 17-year-old debutant , acclaims his goal , scored minutes after coming on at Tynecastle on Saturday . |
| 5 | For complaints coming on after overexertion or over lifting . |
| 6 | If the daemon that fired Karen had invaded Alison 's body , locking its carapace to her face and swarming down her throat like some nifty parasitic alien , it would have had her coming on like Mae West in no time at all . |
| 7 | Following the news that the IBM Corp and Apple Computer Inc PowerPC RISC effort is coming on in leaps and bounds ( UX No 384 ) , rumours floated on the airwaves last week that the first boxes built around the architecture will be out by the end of this year . |
| 8 | The evening shadows were lengthening , one or two lights were coming on in buildings across the city and the dark mass of the cathedral stood out sharply against the soft viridian sky . |
| 9 | People knocking on doors , people hiding behind things , people coming on in costume . |
| 10 | Tina Dicks , whose son Thomas , aged six , attends the school , said : ‘ My little boy is extremely happy there and is coming on by leaps and bounds . |
| 11 | Ana seemed to be almost hungry for company and she took to coming along to Maggie 's room to chat , although she never spoke of her blindness and Maggie ventured no questions . |
| 12 | Pretty much the same sort of shit was coming down at AMS , if we 'd gone looking for it , and of course it was happening all over town at well-known locations : St Mary 's , St Andrew 's , St Anne 's . |
| 13 | Well I thought , she 's coming down with Martin and Uncle Marvin and all that , and she 's going to be here for dinner , now she is n't ! |
| 14 | See if she wants to er , you know , coming down on Sunday . |
| 15 | Instead of coming down on players who , like Bryan Gunn , the Norwich goalkeeper , give rational views of incidents to newspapers , the FA might do better to examine the irrational attitudes created by some of those running the teams . |
| 16 | I would n't mention this to your chums — boys can be so cruel — but I shall be coming down on Sports Day . |
| 17 | The industry 's corporate leaders must have laughed demonically to themselves when they saw the full weight of the law coming down on people manufacturing and distributing comparatively harmless drugs , such as marijuana . |
| 18 | They 're only really happy when they 're coming down on people . |
| 19 | They 're only really happy when they 're coming down on people . |
| 20 | Cos if you say , if you talk to her , say we all thought you were coming down on Thursday . |
| 21 | With its current penchant for clamping down on perceived violations of its copyright , AT&T 's Unix System Laboratories Inc is now coming down on Unix Solutions for its use of the Unix logo in its company name . |
| 22 | The housemaid said to me that the daughter and son-in-law were coming down for Easter ( I 've often had a laugh over this ) ; and she said : |
| 23 | She spent each afternoon in bed , coming down for dinner and then lying on the sofa afterwards . |
| 24 | She says are you coming down for Christmas and I said I do n't know yet . |
| 25 | It was a break , coming down to Athens , and a good break should be grabbed with both fists . |
| 26 | Major institutional investors felt the deal gave too much to Mr Ritblat , his family and British Land management — New British Land was to be paid £15million a year in management charges for the first three years , coming down to £10million as properties were sold . |
| 27 | She 's coming down to Sally and Jane . |
| 28 | With me coming from the North of England , everybody is pretty reserved up there at the best of times , so coming down to London and meeting Angie with an American accent and flitting around the room and speaking in a loud voice all the time , it was amazing . |
| 29 | Your chances of coming down to London and finding someone who may have been there over a decade ago are not just slim , they 're non-existent . |
| 30 | On one occasion an Irish visitor asked a late tenant , Mr Crawshaw , if the lady in white who had passed him on the stairs would be coming down to breakfast soon . |