Example sentences of "[be] come [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The police are coming up the valley , Mr President , ’ he warned , as a hint to him that he should tidy himself . |
2 | Someone had called an ambulance , and it must be coming down the service road now . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | A trio of skinheads were coming up the pavement , and some kids on bikes came by , saw them and started to circle back . |
5 | You were coming down the Pheasant pub then were you ? |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The wind is coming up the valley — quite slowly , like an army that will win . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 ? |
10 | ‘ Mariana 's coming down the meadow . |
11 | Tony sat it out — in my tent I feel obliged to tell him — listening for the noise of a train , a noise that meant the wind was coming up the defile between him and the sea . |
12 | No , no , if you got called away there would n't be anybody to take over until the next relief if , if the man was coming up the dock with two yo yo well you would n't be able to get in touch with him either . |
13 | By Tesco 's it was it was coming out the field . |
14 | Certainly a Glory was coming down the factory drive . |
15 | The sound indicated that she was coming down the mast . |
16 | The colonel or general or whatever he was came down the platform . |