Example sentences of "coming [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fish caught in gill-nets are generally regarded as being of poorer quality , because they are often dead for many hours before coming aboard the fishing vessel . |
| 2 | so obviously they wan na get it down this weekend and get it out the way cos they 've got some family coming for the day on Sunday so they want to get it down tomorrow . |
| 3 | ‘ He gets a lot of stick about his mistakes but he 's very positive and has the confidence to keep coming for the ball . |
| 4 | ‘ I saw problems coming for the breed and in 1984 I started a training club for Dobermanns and , more specifically , for their owners , ’ Graham said . |
| 5 | Some very interesting people are coming for the weekend . ’ |
| 6 | These friends from up north are coming for the weekend , so we 're going out for the weekend |
| 7 | They had n't made an arrangement to meet , even , she had visitors coming for the night , official ones to see her father , she had to help him ‘ entertain' , she 'd told him not to phone at all . |
| 8 | . He was a cabinet maker and er then the boss and we just all sort of worked You know sometimes we had a quite a lot of work going and other times we would n't have anything and other times you were standing waiting doing nothing , waiting in the job g coming for the cabinet makers who would send through legs , something to get started just as long as we got started to work , maybe it was in a hurry . |
| 9 | ‘ Some of Adolph 's cousins are coming for the funeral , ’ she said . |
| 10 | ‘ She 'll have told you we were coming for the boat . |
| 11 | As for me — well — I 'm just coming for the ride . ’ |
| 12 | Retribution was not long in coming for the Partick side who , last Saturday , lost four goals for the second league game in succession . |
| 13 | ‘ It kept coming through the sun roof and at one point I heard the roof caving in , ’ he said from his hospital bed . |
| 14 | With no static electricity coming through the floor the Dalek machines fail , killing their occupants inside . |
| 15 | As she lay listening to the sound of the grown-ups ’ laughter coming through the wall , Dot felt round the sharp tin edges of her victory brooch still pinned to her cardigan front and remembered how Gloria had once said you 'd always be safe in a place like this . |
| 16 | We both heard someone coming through the hall . |
| 17 | And the first students and trainees are now coming through the system with the new qualifications . |
| 18 | At the time he expected to touch down the aircraft suddenly ‘ pulled down to his left ’ , he felt the back of the aircraft buckle and was aware of debris coming through the canopy . |
| 19 | Rising from the toilet , she pulls the nightdress over her head and steps into the bath , not first pulling the chain of the toilet because that would affect the temperature of the water coming through the showerhead on the end of its flexible tube , with which she now hoses herself down . |
| 20 | Jack was coming through the gate from the other field . |
| 21 | My Lady Dedlock ( who is childless ) , looking out in the early twilight from her boudoir at a keeper 's lodge , and seeing the light of a fire upon the latticed panes , and smoke rising from the chimney , and a child , chased by a woman , running out into the rain to meet the shining figure of a wrapped-up man coming through the gate , has been put quite out of temper . |
| 22 | When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well . |
| 23 | Valentin Mesyats , the first secretary of the CPSU committee in Moscow oblast ( region ) , said that the platform ignored the fact that besides the CPSU no other force was " capable of uniting the people , capable of coming through the difficulty of this transitional period and bringing the country out of the crisis " . |
| 24 | Are you coming through the park ? |
| 25 | What are you coming through the park for ? |
| 26 | At Camasunary the bothy for walkers by the sea had a driftwood firelight glow coming through the window . |
| 27 | To make the most of the light coming through the window — which preferably should not be direct sunlight — seat the letter writers to face diagonally onto the window so that they are attractively cross-lit . |
| 28 | Sarah Fleming saw them coming through the window of the front room . |
| 29 | He 's written you a poem in which you might well think he was describing a fox outside his window but just at the point when the fox seems most real , it might be coming through the window or it might be going into its hole , he says that the hole that this fox lives in is his head . |
| 30 | You needed six blankets to keep warm , heating was no use , and draught was coming through the window |