Example sentences of "[be] coming [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , do n't forget we 're coming up to winter , we have the cold winds , we have the rain , if you 're not wearing a moisturizer the skin will suffer . |
| 2 | We 're coming up to Christmas of course and that was touched on yesterday how much people spend at Christmas . |
| 3 | Saturday they 're coming round to dinner . |
| 4 | Like you know , at the end of they 're coming in to landing and they 're wheel 's do n't come down or something ? |
| 5 | After you 've taken your loaves out , you 're coming back to bed . |
| 6 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 7 | We have both got arthritis in our hands and both our husbands are coming up to retirement age . |
| 8 | On one occasion an Irish visitor asked a late tenant , Mr Crawshaw , if the lady in white who had passed him on the stairs would be coming down to breakfast soon . |
| 9 | They would be coming back to education , however , to build upon the qualifications they had already begun to acquire , and would feel at least equal , if not superior in some respects , to their peers who had remained in full-time education . |
| 10 | I 'd trained myself to have no feelings — yet suddenly I 'm coming back to life . |
| 11 | After all , we were coming up to Christmas , season of goodwill . |
| 12 | And I was downstairs with Lottie ; and we were taking coats , do you see ; people were coming in to lunch or dinner — I forget — we were taking the coats , and a man went upstairs — I do n't know who he was — and he had a big head , and it was completely bald ! |
| 13 | The approach of evening and release from the heat had transformed the city through which they rode , and the tree-lined streets that had been scorched and deserted on their arrival were coming rapidly to life . |
| 14 | Now it is coming up to winter I have a lot of black and white outfits . |
| 15 | At the moment , because it is coming up to Christmas and I have already started going to dinners , it is a Principles ' jacket . |
| 16 | , who is coming up to retirement next year after more than forty years in malt , has known the Wallingford maltings since it was a green field site . |
| 17 | BALTIC aviation is coming back to life . |
| 18 | FORMER B-17 base Deenethorpe , near Corby , Northants , is coming back to life as the home of the Deenethorpe Flying Club . |
| 19 | SIR Robin Day is coming back to TV as a rival to his BBC Question Time successor Peter Sissons . |
| 20 | My third point is coming back to Chairman your point about the paragraph , the criterion paragraph of thirty three of P P G three , and the settlement in my view fails the first the first test , since the very city which it is supposed to relieve says that the need can be met , and I quote , within and on the edge of the urban area and villages . |
| 21 | A young girl with agranulocytosis is coming in to Room C. ’ |
| 22 | two than four about their input under the Mediwell and then after that , on the thirtieth Linda 's coming up to school erm and we 're going to actually well , Eleanor 's in English and Paul 's in his room , Cath will be in with the tutors and Paul will come into my classroom that particular time she can go round all the groups and discuss what they 've thought . |
| 23 | it 's coming up to time now anyway so we might as well forget the break . |
| 24 | ‘ And Nigel 's coming up to town ? ’ |
| 25 | Yes , it 's , it 's coming not to sub-contracting but just your ordinary purchasing . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm glad that child 's coming here to dinner on Sunday , ’ Eddie Hogan said . |
| 27 | erm the ostensible subject of this passage is that he 's now finished with hell and heaven as the setting for his poems , and he 's coming down to earth for what is left . |
| 28 | He rang to say that he was coming up to town that evening … ’ |
| 29 | Then the breakers were all astern and Terrie was coming round to starboard to motor up the back of the reef . |
| 30 | It was coming close to midsummer , and a time when every man had more than enough work on his own land ; but Bishop Hrolf , rendered pentecostal amid the dusty glory of his chosen element , dispensed his rota of tasks with a bone-clear , indisputable justice that only the hardier ever disputed , and then under plain fear of excommunication . |