Example sentences of "coming the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | clockwise even though it means coming the long way round |
2 | He scuttled ahead of them , bunching himself up at the approach to turnings in case anyone was coming the other way , and skimming over pools of polished moonlight with the feverish agility of a small bat . |
3 | Coming the other way , between convoys of trucks , was a motley mixture of Soviet or Polish-built old bangers , sleek new Golfs , beaten-up Wartburgs , the occasional Toyota , brand-new Audis , or still spluttering Trabants . |
4 | ‘ The train which was coming the other way had all its windows broken . ’ |
5 | He was so frightened he would n't let the driver go across a green light in case he hit Red and the twins coming the other way . ’ |
6 | A PRANKSTER who dangled his head out of a car window was killed when he was hit by a lorry coming the other way . |
7 | Frogmarched to the open rear doors , she met the fourth man coming the other way , his arms struggling to restrain the squirming , yelling child . |
8 | ‘ Good job we did n't meet it coming the other way , then , ’ said Masklin . |
9 | The SAAF Museum had long wanted an Oxbox and an exchange was arranged , with Lockheed Ventura II 6130 ( one time AJ469 ) coming the other way . |
10 | And of course you meet something coming the other way wrong side of the road . |
11 | The road out of the village , southwards , shrinks in a quite unforeseeable manner in order to pass under the porch of a small chapel ; this could be distracting , and were something coming the other way lead perhaps to a rare collision on what is no doubt consecrated ground . |
12 | You could be a lorry coming the other way . |
13 | Now that was Now look at the vehicles coming the other way and there 's a car in front of the opposing lorry . |
14 | The one coming the other way . |
15 | Now what if something had been coming the other way ? |
16 | double white lines system , We 'll show you this one in a minute , and coming the other way you will see there 's an overtake . |
17 | Cos he wou his reaction time , understandably , cos he was n't expecting it , ce happened like that and hi his reaction time was too slow to compensate for the stupidity of the bloke coming the other way . |
18 | You can overtake if it 's safe to do so and you can regain your nearside without danger or or inconvenience to other vehicles coming the other way . |
19 | There could have been another car/coach/taxi coming the other way ! ’ |
20 | He sped away with them still on amber , narrowly avoiding a car coming the other way . |
21 | She prayed there was nothing coming the other way . |
22 | There was another train coming the other way on the track next to her . |
23 | ‘ And probably the level of civilisation is no greater than it is within the Khanate — otherwise the embassy would be coming the other way . ’ |
24 | Clusters with prams on pavements stopped to talk to groups coming the other way . |
25 | The car skidded for what seemed like an eternity and the lady driver coming the other way did her best to stop , but we collided head on . |
26 | It was thought that the position of these encourages motorists to cut the corner when coming over the bridge thus causing a hazard to vehicles and pedestrians coming the other way . |
27 | The two humans were still coming the other way . |
28 | When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way . |
29 | At Blackberry Hill , I slowed down and explained to Werewolf how I guessed that Salome , coming the other way , down the hill , had been bumped into space . |
30 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |