Example sentences of "[noun] coming [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Carrie sat around the bed with her mother and Fred chatting for a while , and it was not too long before they saw Joe Maitland coming down the ward .
2 I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand .
3 with sort of a trail of red blood coming out the middle !
4 Light coming down the barrel is focussed by a small plastic lens onto the photo-diode and the device is sensitive enough to detect the changes in intensity of the picture .
5 This time he could almost hear a patient sigh coming down the telephone .
6 Coffin heard feet coming down the staircase from the upper floor of the house .
7 Not , says UI , to kowtow to any kind of preconditions SunSoft wants UI to meet for the firm to close on the desktop issue , but simply that USL does n't have resources to do all the development work coming down the line .
8 And you have acid coming up the gullet ,
9 Trev 's Browning skipper Tony Marti said : ‘ We fished a Super League practise session last September and we saw an oil slick coming down the canal then .
10 And I said well yeah look thing buzz coming out the end .
11 In the face of recent doubts surrounding Intel 's future plans for its i860 RISC , Du Pont says it is now under non-disclosure for a new iteration coming down the line — though there 's no hint of silicon just yet .
12 oh it , they showed you pictures of things coming out the squares
13 with maggots coming out the beak
14 The roar of the water coming down the gully drummed at my ears as I inched the Toyota into the bend .
15 It was virtually a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and very sharp , the culvert blocked with stone and the remains of a small tree , so that the full volume of the water coming down the gully was swirling across the track to disappear over the edge , thundering down into the main gorge of the Jequetepeque .
16 A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead .
17 Their world is being turned upside down by the cable revolution and the string of multimedia technologies coming down the pike , but US telephone companies — both local and long-distance — will maintain strong credit quality throughout the 1990s despite major competitive , regulatory and technological challenges , Moody 's Investors Service Inc concludes in its annual report on the industry .
18 Which is traffic coming down the A sixty one and heading west on the A fifty nine .
19 I knew he , I did n't know him , I did n't know him , but I do go and see him when I saw this case was covered up , and it seems to be utterly unreasonable that this poor old chap was going to have doors slamming and banging , and then people coming out the Dance about midnight , and his whole life being disrupted , so I I turned on there , unknown to my own Council , oh , they were cross with me .
20 I get stuck in a crowd of people coming out the tube and I have to stand on tiptoe so I can keep my eye on her .
21 erm And the cultivators coming down the logging roads , I agree entirely .
22 There is no pronounced tug of any kind , just a tremor coming up the line that feels as though someone is drawing a hacksaw blade across it .
23 In the Kensington exchange a group of Telecom engineers and police officers stared at the monitors and listened to the rage coming down the line ; at Cork Street , beneath the pavements of smart Mayfair , four men from MI5 were rooted in their chairs , motionless as the anger poured out of the speaker into the room and the tape-deck wound silently round and round .
24 I used to go on these escapades with a mate of mine who 's now a milkman , and we 'd go to Soho , and I remember walking along Wardour Street and hearing this music coming out the basement .
25 Smoky voice coming up the stair .
26 Well yes and they were it was you know the What impressed me also you know what it 's like when you go to these places I can remember going not so long ago to Blenheim and er just about to examine something and this thundering voice coming down the hallway , Do not touch .
27 Donna looked up and saw the steward coming up the aisle .
28 My brother Emanuel and myself going into God 's Gift Mine with the Commissioners Mr. Robert and Mr. George Bowes with others coming up the ladders from the level , it pleased God that the ladders slipt from their hold being upon them Mr. George Bowes , his man Turn , my brother Emanuel , Mr. Robert Bowes , Martin Moser and myself .
29 It was a great thing the other day when I saw the combine harvester coming up the glen .
30 ‘ The omnibus coming down the rue du Bac , ’ replied the young man .
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