Example sentences of "[noun] come the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sped away with them still on amber , narrowly avoiding a car coming the other way . |
| 2 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |
| 3 | We 're going down this road and John was in front of me and just as John went past this wagon it pulled out and there was a car coming the other way . |
| 4 | just gon na have to you know be stopped there anyway this young lad after the first fast bend he went to overtake and I could see a car coming the other way and he was like er running along side this pick-up but it was like he could n't drop back and he could n't make it either |
| 5 | do n't that put you off when drivers come the other way and you 've got right of way and they always go , and they go past |
| 6 | Cos he wou his reaction time , understandably , cos he was n't expecting it , ce happened like that and hi his reaction time was too slow to compensate for the stupidity of the bloke coming the other way . |
| 7 | It was thought that the position of these encourages motorists to cut the corner when coming over the bridge thus causing a hazard to vehicles and pedestrians coming the other way . |
| 8 | A PRANKSTER who dangled his head out of a car window was killed when he was hit by a lorry coming the other way . |
| 9 | You could be a lorry coming the other way . |
| 10 | Clusters with prams on pavements stopped to talk to groups coming the other way . |
| 11 | The car skidded for what seemed like an eternity and the lady driver coming the other way did her best to stop , but we collided head on . |
| 12 | They drive on the wrong side of the road for some considerable distance which actually amazes me , I 'm sitting there lawfully in the queue and someone comes whizzing by on the right er without any sight of the traffic coming the other way , er interestingly we did have the police er have had the police up there monitoring the situation . |
| 13 | When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way . |
| 14 | There was another train coming the other way on the track next to her . |
| 15 | He died instantly from head injuries caused by either the fall , or the imnpact of a train coming the other way . |
| 16 | Frogmarched to the open rear doors , she met the fourth man coming the other way , his arms struggling to restrain the squirming , yelling child . |
| 17 | There could have been another car/coach/taxi coming the other way ! ’ |
| 18 | Now that was Now look at the vehicles coming the other way and there 's a car in front of the opposing lorry . |
| 19 | You can overtake if it 's safe to do so and you can regain your nearside without danger or or inconvenience to other vehicles coming the other way . |
| 20 | And er to avoid a collision and in fact I think they did strike but I 'm not really sure , but to avoid a collision this one then goes over the other side of the road , picks up this Ford Orion coming the over way , rolls it over the bank , and it goes underneath the tractive unit of the artic . |
| 21 | Victory over Dublin in a pulsating All Ireland semi-final came the hard way , a brilliant lion-hearted second half comeback after trailing by five points at half-time . |
| 22 | He was so frightened he would n't let the driver go across a green light in case he hit Red and the twins coming the other way . ’ |