Example sentences of "coming [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fish caught in gill-nets are generally regarded as being of poorer quality , because they are often dead for many hours before coming aboard the fishing vessel . |
| 2 | ‘ I saw problems coming for the breed and in 1984 I started a training club for Dobermanns and , more specifically , for their owners , ’ Graham said . |
| 3 | ‘ He gets a lot of stick about his mistakes but he 's very positive and has the confidence to keep coming for the ball . |
| 4 | ‘ Some of Adolph 's cousins are coming for the funeral , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Some very interesting people are coming for the weekend . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ She 'll have told you we were coming for the boat . |
| 7 | They had n't made an arrangement to meet , even , she had visitors coming for the night , official ones to see her father , she had to help him ‘ entertain' , she 'd told him not to phone at all . |
| 8 | But , for a reader coming for the first time to the subject , this can not give a sense of the rightness , diversity and very real differences in feminist art history and criticism over the last couple of decades . |
| 9 | Retribution was not long in coming for the Partick side who , last Saturday , lost four goals for the second league game in succession . |
| 10 | . He was a cabinet maker and er then the boss and we just all sort of worked You know sometimes we had a quite a lot of work going and other times we would n't have anything and other times you were standing waiting doing nothing , waiting in the job g coming for the cabinet makers who would send through legs , something to get started just as long as we got started to work , maybe it was in a hurry . |
| 11 | As for me — well — I 'm just coming for the ride . ’ |
| 12 | so obviously they wan na get it down this weekend and get it out the way cos they 've got some family coming for the day on Sunday so they want to get it down tomorrow . |
| 13 | you coming for the what ? |
| 14 | I 'm coming for the |
| 15 | These friends from up north are coming for the weekend , so we 're going out for the weekend |
| 16 | Terry from hire is coming for the red minibus . |
| 17 | When Aisha returned from work , coming through the door weighed down with plastic carrier bags , her coat smelling of perfume mixed with cigarette smoke , I gave a shiver of anger : I wanted to carry shopping bags like that and wear a coat like hers ! |
| 18 | Once you 're used to the lack of feel coming through the rim of the steering wheel , you can chuck the G40 into a corner , stabilise the understeer with a balanced throttle and belt round , gradually turning the power back on as the exit opens up . |
| 19 | The quantity of talented filmmakers coming through the quota mill was not substantial . |
| 20 | Jack was coming through the gate from the other field . |
| 21 | And then the Hare-woman was coming through the door at the bottom of the stairs and the man with the cold eyes was watching again . |
| 22 | As she lay listening to the sound of the grown-ups ’ laughter coming through the wall , Dot felt round the sharp tin edges of her victory brooch still pinned to her cardigan front and remembered how Gloria had once said you 'd always be safe in a place like this . |
| 23 | We just saw Eddie 's tiny figure coming through the entrance in an open Land Rover before we collapsed in hysterical relief . |
| 24 | ‘ It kept coming through the sun roof and at one point I heard the roof caving in , ’ he said from his hospital bed . |
| 25 | Crippled chairs with missing feet and tufts of stuffing coming through the cracks ; dead , useless grandfather clocks with faces but no hands ; embroidered hangings eaten with mould patches that made hunt scenes resemble maps of unknown worlds . |
| 26 | I do n't think the water is coming through the door seals . |
| 27 | In your case I suspect the water is coming through the seams on the bulkhead around the footwells . |
| 28 | The applause , scattered at first , thickened , took on a note of real enthusiasm , and tinny music could be heard threading through it , and then J. J. Gerrard was coming through the wide entrance at the back of the dais , his rather fat face heavily serious over his pink shirt , walking purposefully to the chair in the center . |
| 29 | Rising from the toilet , she pulls the nightdress over her head and steps into the bath , not first pulling the chain of the toilet because that would affect the temperature of the water coming through the showerhead on the end of its flexible tube , with which she now hoses herself down . |
| 30 | When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well . |