Example sentences of "coming a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with most good tumbles , you could see this one coming a mile off — and could do nothing to prevent the inevitable . |
| 2 | Is n't there a bridge there where poor old Harold won a victory before coming a cropper at Hastings ? ’ |
| 3 | Now this may sound an anathema to some Evangelical ears because for some the Church is but a secondary fact in Christian truth , coming a long way after personal faith and experience . |
| 4 | I like them , they 've brought us central heating an' that , but we do n't want all these roads cutting into the green belt ; and you ca n't sneak up on anybody now when they can hear you coming a mile off . |
| 5 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 6 | You have to sense that coming a little while in advance and if you think someone is going to throw a tantrum , you hold back . |
| 7 | One fundamental characteristic of professional people ( including those who are the most successful ) is to put technical excellence in their own field first , everything else coming a poor second . |
| 8 | You saw it coming a mile off . |
| 9 | You have a one in six chance of coming a cropper on the slopes — which is trebled if you are under the influence of tranquillisers . |
| 10 | At Silvertown , Jones , the unofficial Labour candidate , beat Carthew , Davis coming a poor third , while at Plaistow Thorne inflicted a crushing defeat on Lupton . |
| 11 | Well , we did n't have much luck out in the open because the rabbits saw or heard or smelt us coming a mile off and bolted down the nearest hole , even though we were mute and trying to stay down wind ( the wind kept switching direction in little gusts ) . |
| 12 | You would be wise to phone ahead , especially if you are coming a long way , to check opening times because they vary from time to time . |
| 13 | He says you 're expecting him , that you were informed he would be coming a few months ago . |
| 14 | But most clever journalists see him coming a mile off . |
| 15 | You could see him coming a block away . |
| 16 | Stephen saw the police cars coming a long way off , three of them in a convoy coming up the white road from Hilderbridge . |
| 17 | More or less you see them coming a mile off now . |
| 18 | For Johnny , there were the Brits … and the other lot , all lumped together , and coming a pretty poor second . |
| 19 | The lower age limit on party membership was reduced to 16 ; this came after the party lost 700,000 members since reconstituting itself and coming a humiliating fourth place in the national elections in March and April [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 20 | The timing of Nguyen 's visit was regarded as significant by some commentators , coming a few days before the arrival in Moscow of the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin [ see p. 38189 ] . |
| 21 | We get people coming a long way , in the car . |
| 22 | Jackson , narrowly beaten by McCoy in the Indoor Championships after coming a poor seventh in the Olympics , is determined to prove his worth at the highest level . |
| 23 | Jackson , narrowly beaten by McCoy in the Indoor Championships after coming a poor seventh in the Olympics , is determined to prove his worth at the highest level . |
| 24 | The trade is booming er there 's a lot of er of people coming across as you know and we estimate that there are in the region of er three million peop er British people coming a year in Calais . |
| 25 | I think that would defeat the object in small places because you can hear these diesel cars coming a hundred miles away , in the later hours you can |
| 26 | I 've got a big one coming a wooden one , supposedly I think of something . . |
| 27 | They 'll see you coming a mile off ! |