Example sentences of "coming [adv prt] a [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 | We did n't like them coming in the police station , they used to come into our parade room where our men were having food , and you can imagine them coming in a bit lousy and so on . |
| 8 | A stranger to the district , coming over a brow of the hill , would have stopped astonished and perhaps a little peeved to see Ploughman 's Lane lying beneath him . |
| 9 | January 30 : Cannabis worth £100,000 uncovered on a fruit lorry stopped coming off a ferry at Larne . |
| 10 | She 's coming off a couple of losers , and Hollywood is watching her . ’ |
| 11 | If the silicon chips coming off a production line begin to fail , ordinary optical-microscope pictures of the minute circuitry can often help to sort out what is going wrong . |
| 12 | ‘ Collins was unbeaten when he faced me and he did n't look the same fighter coming off a loss . ’ |
| 13 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 14 | This can be just as traumatic and lengthy as coming off an opioid , as the following interviewee experienced : |
| 15 | ‘ Yeah , the morning will be sunny , the afternoon will be coming up a storm . |
| 16 | I think , we have got all these seeds though in the greenhouse , and they 're coming up a treat ! |
| 17 | Coming up a football health warning for Swindon Town … |
| 18 | Snods is still in the Everton squad and frequently gets a game , since coming back a year ago after his injury . |
| 19 | Er Welsh colts and things of that nature are coming back a bit now , they are building up now er but |
| 20 | Well it 's only coming out a yard is n't it ? |
| 21 | The next day he starts at one car coming around a bend a little fast . |
| 22 | The first cart was coming around a bend in the road . |