Example sentences of "[be] come [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I think , we have got all these seeds though in the greenhouse , and they 're coming up a treat !
2 ‘ The police are coming up the valley , Mr President , ’ he warned , as a hint to him that he should tidy himself .
3 Er Welsh colts and things of that nature are coming back a bit now , they are building up now er but
4 ‘ You have to bear in mind that we are coming off a very low base , ’ said Mr Heather .
5 After the race they seemed to be coming up a little more , and by the time we arrived back in Britain I was covered in them .
6 ‘ Yeah , the morning will be sunny , the afternoon will be coming up a storm .
7 Yeah but it must be coming up the Daisy Hill .
8 Someone had called an ambulance , and it must be coming down the service road now .
9 ‘ I think I shall be coming in a little under budget on Luxembourg so perhaps any surplus could be spent on the other productions . ’
10 But erm , we do seem to be coming out a little bit light .
11 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 .
12 If you were to come down the Cowley Road — I invite you to come down and and come and see the situation , because , you know , if I said okay anyone can smoke or drink in the church or churchyard in Saint Mary and John , the building would be full , not full literally , but we 'd have people all day in there smoking and drinking and there would be nowhere quiet for people to pray .
13 A trio of skinheads were coming up the pavement , and some kids on bikes came by , saw them and started to circle back .
14 He looked unbelieving and said , ‘ But surely you remember when we were going down the eighth , you were coming up the ninth , and I waved and your wife waved back , and then you waved . ’
15 John and the rest of the room seemed to be miles away — even my own voice , when I produced it finally , sounded as if it were coming down a long-distance telephone .
16 Crowds of people were coming down the quays , all heading eastwards .
17 Tony Milton and his assistant , thank goodness , were coming down the ninth fairway on an electric buggy .
18 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 .
19 You were coming down the Pheasant pub then were you ?
20 The wind is coming up the valley — quite slowly , like an army that will win .
21 Pregnant replies , mystic allusions , mistaken identities , arguing his father is his mother , that sort of thing ; intimations of suicide , foregoing of exercise , loss of mirth , hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment ; invocations of camels , chameleons , capons , whales , weasels , hawks , handsaws — riddles , quibbles and evasions ; amnesia , paranoia , myopia ; day-dreaming , hallucinations ; stabbing his elders , abusing his parents , insulting his lover , and appearing hatless in public — knock-kneed , droop-stockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy , which at his age is coming on a bit strong .
22 Now it is coming in a little again .
23 Well it is and it it 's it 's like sludge and that that 's coming out the bottom of the erm tank , the water tank .
24 A new one , one with , this , it 's coming out the
25 Nottinghamshire 's favourite with the weather forecast for the rest of the afternoon , we go to Grantham and er Sharon tell us what 's coming out the sky ?
26 I like er back , he 's coming back that 's coming back an all , oh yes
27 She 's coming off a couple of losers , and Hollywood is watching her . ’
28 The old saying that ‘ it 's coming off a broad back ’ is being stretched beyond its limits .
29 So it 's coming down a bit .
30 Now , the er , whilst we can not expect them to adopt say our ideals , because we are er , you know , we 're probably more modernised in lots of ways , but we can set a standard which they work towards , and er , he mentioned about the fact that people er , the unemployment 's coming down a lot with the jobs , they 're just part-time jobs , and they 're very cheap paid jobs , and very er bad conditions for a lot of people as far as health and safety goes .
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