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 . |