Example sentences of "[been] coming " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the nurses has been coming in to give me injections every day . |
| 2 | Ethel shook her head in puzzlement , but a gleam had been coming into Eames 's eyes . |
| 3 | Also there were the people who 'd been coming in to the shop when it was still Let It Rock . |
| 4 | I remember one bloke who was part of a working class West London crowd that had been coming into the shop since the early days . |
| 5 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 6 | He 'd never seen anyone in Jubilee Wood in all the months he 'd been coming up here . |
| 7 | The ‘ no support ’ excuse has been coming more to the fore recently . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's a chap — he 's been coming round for years going on and on at me about buying the table . |
| 9 | Some fear reprisals if they did so , although tourists have been coming here for years to fish for trout and salmon . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 11 | Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him . |
| 12 | The stomach cramps had been coming back , off and on , all day , but so far she had been able to keep them under control . |
| 13 | She had not been able to work out where the noise had been coming from . |
| 14 | Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony . |
| 15 | Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame . |
| 16 | By the early 1980s the Commission had been coming under increasingly severe criticism from conservationists and others . |
| 17 | These children on the whole had greater problems and cried more than the Hungarian children who had been coming earlier and for longer . |
| 18 | The signal is dated 1 August 1942 and states that a stream of messages had been coming in from Stirling in the desert regarding the shipment of supplies by Bombays for delivery on 4 August . |
| 19 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 20 | Case law changes have been coming at frequent intervals , particularly those affecting liability for disclosing defects in house construction . |
| 21 | Fishing is let each year to the same people , many of whom have been coming to Brora for decades . |
| 22 | He had been coming to Hawaii since he was thirteen and competing since he was seventeen . |
| 23 | We had been coming onto the main road at about five miles an hour when three men had blocked our exit . |
| 24 | HMS Reading should have been coming in the other direction . |
| 25 | This afternoon , however , she was too much perturbed in her mind to trouble about such things , and she rounded the corner at a run which would have spelt disaster had anyone been coming in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | Di Driver had been coming to my classes for some time and she knew I was appearing on the programme but I had no idea that she planned on paying me a visit ‘ on air ’ . |
| 27 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 28 | Contrary to reports of declining sales , there have even been rises in circulation , readership and ad revenue ( slowly , but surely , the agencies have been coming round to Punch 's point-of-view ) . |
| 29 | He had been coming regularly for almost sixty years , and was only fourteen when he bought his first pony there for £4.10s . |
| 30 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |