Example sentences of "coming [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , for a reader coming for the first time to the subject , this can not give a sense of the rightness , diversity and very real differences in feminist art history and criticism over the last couple of decades . |
| 2 | Terry from hire is coming for the red minibus . |
| 3 | The applause , scattered at first , thickened , took on a note of real enthusiasm , and tinny music could be heard threading through it , and then J. J. Gerrard was coming through the wide entrance at the back of the dais , his rather fat face heavily serious over his pink shirt , walking purposefully to the chair in the center . |
| 4 | Coming through the crowded , often narrow streets had been tricky and Maggie was pleased to find that the hotel was modern and luxurious . |
| 5 | And coming through the arched gateway — Jess ! |
| 6 | He could mature well after coming through the junior ranks . |
| 7 | A square of light coming through the open hatch made half-hearted patterns through the ladder and silhouetted the Negro . |
| 8 | Rachel had been quiet but now Carrie could hear her stirring , the growing sounds of protest coming through the open door . |
| 9 | Who said and on which occasion : ‘ In church on Sunday it was lovely , and the sun was coming through the stained glass window and falling on some flowers . |
| 10 | Burun estimated that the party of riders beneath it was coming through the last of the little valleys which led out onto the plain . |
| 11 | A shaft of sunlight coming through the olive-green curtains wiped out the picture . |
| 12 | The old lady would have been a lissome girl , like the girls now coming through the main entrance of the boma , carrying large plastic containers of water on their heads , keeping them in place by a casual touch of the hand . |
| 13 | cos there is n't no ventilator in it , and that 's the one we sleep in cos we 're frightened of people coming through the back door in the night , you know kicking in the back door , so we sleep in the other room . |
| 14 | We came down and realised there was water coming through the back door and the walls . |
| 15 | starting a little brown smoulder mark it were like that all the through the electric blanket of course all the through the the sheets all through the sheets and blankets and it had just coming through the top counterpane we used have a |
| 16 | The recollection of the summer evening sunlight coming through the large window behind the preacher 's head evokes many nostalgic memories . |
| 17 | DeFries made a lot of career decisions for David that worked , but suddenly decisions , desires to do things , were coming between the two of them , so there was a clash on whose decision was going to win and whose idea was going to win . |
| 18 | Coming between the poetic neo-romanticism of the war years and the potentially overwhelming influence of American abstraction , theirs was a quiet but genuinely felt and observed art which shows its strength by continuing to flourish in its unsensational way . |
| 19 | Excavations indicate that our ancestors frequented the lake margin where streams coming off the volcanic highlands entered the lake . |
| 20 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
| 21 | A low , scudding cloudbank was coming off the western horizon , purple with unshed rain . |
| 22 | Gunnell , a real golden girl with glittering earrings and necklace as she attacked the barriers , pulled up alongside the exotic Farmer-Patrick coming off the final bend . |
| 23 | He did in the end manage to reach Liverpool Street station just as the passengers were coming off the two-twenty from Ipswich . |
| 24 | The need to keep the foot horizontal makes coming off the steep ice onto easier angled terrain a difficult manoeuvre . |
| 25 | Erm thanks very much for the directions er you gave me , it 's quite awkward coming off the main road there cos you really have |
| 26 | In both cases however the infinitive evokes a result — something therefore which is conceived as coming after the actual operation of perception . |
| 27 | Coming after the sleepless night spent with Felicity , it was bound to affect him pretty badly . |
| 28 | On the last lap , we watched three cars coming towards the chequered flag almost side by side : Andretti , Depailler and Hunt . |
| 29 | And the engine man he was on his knees beside the engine the engine was sticking over and the officer was in charge watching when we was watching the boat coming towards the grating you know . |
| 30 | but it 's lovely you know when we were coming past the playing fields , it 's erm I did n't |