Example sentences of "coming [adv] to [noun sg] " 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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Coming down to breakfast I find raw , slanting cuts I never made on the loaf in the crock . ) |
| 5 | Coming down to earth : Over the next four weeks Sally Tamplin looks at the problems of a small town garden . |
| 6 | In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth . |
| 7 | ‘ The biggest spanking you 've ever had , ’ she answered promptly , coming down to earth ; and they proceeded down a steep zigzag path to the shore . |
| 8 | She was coming down to earth . |
| 9 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Coming down to earth , have you found out anything about Brand ? ’ |
| 10 | erm the ostensible subject of this passage is that he 's now finished with hell and heaven as the setting for his poems , and he 's coming down to earth for what is left . |
| 11 | Dustin knew he was coming in to Broadway with Jimmy Shine and did not relish the idea of making a film and simultaneously appearing in a play , especially as the production was having problems on the road . |
| 12 | And I was downstairs with Lottie ; and we were taking coats , do you see ; people were coming in to lunch or dinner — I forget — we were taking the coats , and a man went upstairs — I do n't know who he was — and he had a big head , and it was completely bald ! |
| 13 | And he phoned , and he phoned the pub this afternoon and he says I 'm not coming in to work tonight . |
| 14 | A young girl with agranulocytosis is coming in to Room C. ’ |
| 15 | Like you know , at the end of they 're coming in to landing and they 're wheel 's do n't come down or something ? |
| 16 | Rather than co coming in to hospital . |
| 17 | And since I was coming in to town she asked me to get some more . |
| 18 | He seemed to cause embarrassment to his side of the room , but a sense of doors opening and light coming in to mine ( p. 41 ) . |
| 19 | Casting the net wide , One Short pursued all branches of the creative arts , coming finally to music ; but not , as might have been imagined , calypso or reggae , rather that of country & western and one song in particular . |
| 20 | Yes , it 's , it 's coming not to sub-contracting but just your ordinary purchasing . |
| 21 | The approach of evening and release from the heat had transformed the city through which they rode , and the tree-lined streets that had been scorched and deserted on their arrival were coming rapidly to life . |
| 22 | The division had a good year in 1992 , with results coming close to budget . |
| 23 | At the end of 1987 they had failed to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup and then played two drawn series against India and Pakistan , in the latter case coming close to defeat before squeezing a two-wicket victory to square the rubber . |
| 24 | It was coming close to midsummer , and a time when every man had more than enough work on his own land ; but Bishop Hrolf , rendered pentecostal amid the dusty glory of his chosen element , dispensed his rota of tasks with a bone-clear , indisputable justice that only the hardier ever disputed , and then under plain fear of excommunication . |
| 25 | Taking part in protests could jeopardise any existing opportunities of securing a decent employment position for those coming up to graduation . |
| 26 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 27 | Now , do n't forget we 're coming up to winter , we have the cold winds , we have the rain , if you 're not wearing a moisturizer the skin will suffer . |
| 28 | Now it is coming up to winter I have a lot of black and white outfits . |
| 29 | spring term coming up to easter because until you know your budgets and your |
| 30 | two than four about their input under the Mediwell and then after that , on the thirtieth Linda 's coming up to school erm and we 're going to actually well , Eleanor 's in English and Paul 's in his room , Cath will be in with the tutors and Paul will come into my classroom that particular time she can go round all the groups and discuss what they 've thought . |