Example sentences of "coming [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His director of international protection , Michel Moussalli , wrote in ’ Refugees ’ magazine — the UNHCR publication — in May : ’ The majority of people coming as asylum seekers into Europe are not refugees but economic migrants . ’ |
| 2 | Stonehill , last in Belfast two years ago is coming as part of a European tour . |
| 3 | Director and journalist George Allison kept the honours coming as manager , supported by Tom Whittaker and assistant manager Joe Shaw . |
| 4 | ‘ Got the girls coming for lunch and bridge . |
| 5 | ‘ There are four women coming for lunch . |
| 6 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 7 | Are n't you coming for lunch with Mrs Richards ? ’ |
| 8 | I sa I said erm well , how about coming for lunch one day ? |
| 9 | once I got to bed and me brain works I thought , oh dear , the family 's coming for lunch on Tuesday so I ca n't do it ! |
| 10 | I remember an occasion , some years ago , when the front door bell rang here and I opened the door and it was my secretary coming for work in the morning . |
| 11 | Hibs reaction to the proposals is still far from clear , but , with a new report out from the council soon the time is coming for decisions to be taken . |
| 12 | Oh look the boys and girls are coming for play time . |
| 13 | Visit Malham at mid-day on a sunny Bank Holiday and it will be " fair thranged wi' folk " , yet wait until evening when the charabancs have gone and the cars have motored their way back downdale , and Malham becomes again a quiet little place , the only noise coming from the Hikers ' Bar of the Buck Inn where legions of Pennine Way pilgrims have slaked their thirst ; or from the bar of the Listers Arms where Dalesfolk have been coming for years to taste the best steaks in the Dales . |
| 14 | The eagles debated this coming for years , for in other places men harmed them and drove them away , and they wondered if they should attack the men , even at the sacred site itself . |
| 15 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 16 | Even more part of it than Rosie , who had been coming for years . |
| 17 | … the ‘ brake shop ’ , into which coaches are continually coming for repair . |
| 18 | For crossing the border into Iran , he had a code ( ’ I am coming for Mustafa ’ ) , but no-one asked for it ; and so they landed in Tehran . |
| 19 | ‘ And the girls coming for bridge ! ’ |
| 20 | by people people who come are coming for interviews |
| 21 | ‘ Thank you , ’ he answered , bewildered , and was even more surprised when Therese called down from the stage , ‘ Coming for coffee , Madge ? |
| 22 | She was not unexpected ; she had been coming for months . |
| 23 | ‘ They 're coming for tissue-typing tomorrow . ’ |
| 24 | I remember coming for tea and er the table was where it is now I do n't know whether it was |
| 25 | But I shall stop to buy some of those beautiful little slate-green lentils for which the district is famous and which a greedy guest of mine recently proclaimed as good as caviare — and also to telephone to Madame Barattero at the Hotel du Midi at Lamastre to say we are coming for dinner . |
| 26 | ‘ Hello , operator , I 'm trying to get through to the Kosher butcher — it 's on the blink and I 've people coming for dinner Friday — Oh , thank you , dear . |
| 27 | You could , you could hear him coming for miles . |
| 28 | coming for comments like that |
| 29 | Oh ca n't see her coming for Saturday night . |
| 30 | When we were children , about two days before Christmas , my mother used to face us all defiantly , and say your Aunty May 's coming for Christmas , and we all used to scream no , no , not Aunty May please . |