Example sentences of "coming [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coffin heard feet coming down the staircase from the upper floor of the house . |
| 2 | The roar of the water coming down the gully drummed at my ears as I inched the Toyota into the bend . |
| 3 | It was virtually a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and very sharp , the culvert blocked with stone and the remains of a small tree , so that the full volume of the water coming down the gully was swirling across the track to disappear over the edge , thundering down into the main gorge of the Jequetepeque . |
| 4 | Coming down the scale a little , another pair of helical mirror images is provided by the cochleae , the frequency analysers in our ears . |
| 5 | ‘ Mariana 's coming down the meadow . |
| 6 | Someone had called an ambulance , and it must be coming down the service road now . |
| 7 | Certainly a Glory was coming down the factory drive . |
| 8 | She thought she heard someone coming down the passage , so she grabbed two paper towels and wrapped them round the offending literature . |
| 9 | Coming down the passage towards her was Cobalt . |
| 10 | This time he could almost hear a patient sigh coming down the telephone . |
| 11 | They were skiing more slowly now , coming down the valley with Castell Rocamar like something out of a fairy-tale at its head . |
| 12 | Is anybody coming down the grubber . |
| 13 | Anybody coming down the grubber . |
| 14 | erm And the cultivators coming down the logging roads , I agree entirely . |
| 15 | You were coming down the Pheasant pub then were you ? |
| 16 | Light coming down the barrel is focussed by a small plastic lens onto the photo-diode and the device is sensitive enough to detect the changes in intensity of the picture . |
| 17 | ‘ The omnibus coming down the rue du Bac , ’ replied the young man . |
| 18 | Trev 's Browning skipper Tony Marti said : ‘ We fished a Super League practise session last September and we saw an oil slick coming down the canal then . |
| 19 | Well yes and they were it was you know the What impressed me also you know what it 's like when you go to these places I can remember going not so long ago to Blenheim and er just about to examine something and this thundering voice coming down the hallway , Do not touch . |
| 20 | ‘ I never thought you could run like that , Sarah , ’ said Angela , coming down the slope and joining them . |
| 21 | Their brakes must have locked as they were coming down the slope , for there was a twenty-yard slice of chocolate loam where their wheels had scoured the turf . |
| 22 | I would never ever ever look graceful coming down the slope . |
| 23 | I mean , he 's all , I mean he walked in the door , he was , I 'm coming down the garden , and erm , he walked down the garden and he 'd seen me , and he started really smiling . |
| 24 | However , the sort of routine farces and imitations of earlier successes being handled by British Lion were hardly a match for spectacular films like El Cid ( 1961 ) , Dr No ( 1962 ) , The Longest Day ( 1962 ) and Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) that were now coming down the line from American companies , with a ‘ British ’ tag on them . |
| 25 | In the Kensington exchange a group of Telecom engineers and police officers stared at the monitors and listened to the rage coming down the line ; at Cork Street , beneath the pavements of smart Mayfair , four men from MI5 were rooted in their chairs , motionless as the anger poured out of the speaker into the room and the tape-deck wound silently round and round . |
| 26 | Not , says UI , to kowtow to any kind of preconditions SunSoft wants UI to meet for the firm to close on the desktop issue , but simply that USL does n't have resources to do all the development work coming down the line . |
| 27 | In the face of recent doubts surrounding Intel 's future plans for its i860 RISC , Du Pont says it is now under non-disclosure for a new iteration coming down the line — though there 's no hint of silicon just yet . |
| 28 | The sound indicated that she was coming down the mast . |
| 29 | As much as three up after 11 holes the Spaniards lost both the 12th and 13th to pars but held themselves together coming down the stretch to win a priceless point . |
| 30 | In one of the most enthralling finishes seen at a European Tour event this season , the 33 year-old Mancunian held his game together , coming down the stretch , to record his first Tour triumph in the European Open at Walton Heath . |