Example sentences of "coming [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pregnant replies , mystic allusions , mistaken identities , arguing his father is his mother , that sort of thing ; intimations of suicide , foregoing of exercise , loss of mirth , hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment ; invocations of camels , chameleons , capons , whales , weasels , hawks , handsaws — riddles , quibbles and evasions ; amnesia , paranoia , myopia ; day-dreaming , hallucinations ; stabbing his elders , abusing his parents , insulting his lover , and appearing hatless in public — knock-kneed , droop-stockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy , which at his age is coming on a bit strong . |
| 2 | She could see the ground for a distance round the beech-tree , and as she gazed down she noticed a man coming along a path a short distance away . |
| 3 | ‘ We used to have these games , like we used to have this big trunk , and we used to call that ‘ the dream machine ’ and we used to get all things like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs coming down a conveyer belt , lasers , spaceships , everything . ’ |
| 4 | John and the rest of the room seemed to be miles away — even my own voice , when I produced it finally , sounded as if it were coming down a long-distance telephone . |
| 5 | You 're on the main part of the carriageway , and coming in on the left there is this traffic coming down a slip road to join you . |
| 6 | So it 's coming down a bit . |
| 7 | Now , the er , whilst we can not expect them to adopt say our ideals , because we are er , you know , we 're probably more modernised in lots of ways , but we can set a standard which they work towards , and er , he mentioned about the fact that people er , the unemployment 's coming down a lot with the jobs , they 're just part-time jobs , and they 're very cheap paid jobs , and very er bad conditions for a lot of people as far as health and safety goes . |
| 8 | Just coming down a little bit . |
| 9 | Got ta make cups of tea coming down every half hour . |
| 10 | Trev 's Browning skipper Tony Marti said : ‘ We fished a Super League practise session last September and we saw an oil slick coming down the canal then . |
| 11 | However , the sort of routine farces and imitations of earlier successes being handled by British Lion were hardly a match for spectacular films like El Cid ( 1961 ) , Dr No ( 1962 ) , The Longest Day ( 1962 ) and Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) that were now coming down the line from American companies , with a ‘ British ’ tag on them . |
| 12 | Dot woke when she heard Gloria coming down the clanky metal steps outside , heard her stumble her way across the room , and then felt herself being pushed to the far side of the bed . |
| 13 | ‘ Mariana 's coming down the meadow . |
| 14 | ‘ The omnibus coming down the rue du Bac , ’ replied the young man . |
| 15 | I 've seen the video tape of Tom and I coming down the 18th . |
| 16 | The crowd cheered us in of course , but it 's not the same as coming down the last as the winner for sure . |
| 17 | ‘ I never thought you could run like that , Sarah , ’ said Angela , coming down the slope and joining them . |
| 18 | Crowds of people were coming down the quays , all heading eastwards . |
| 19 | Coming down the scale a little , another pair of helical mirror images is provided by the cochleae , the frequency analysers in our ears . |
| 20 | Certainly a Glory was coming down the factory drive . |
| 21 | In the Kensington exchange a group of Telecom engineers and police officers stared at the monitors and listened to the rage coming down the line ; at Cork Street , beneath the pavements of smart Mayfair , four men from MI5 were rooted in their chairs , motionless as the anger poured out of the speaker into the room and the tape-deck wound silently round and round . |
| 22 | This caused me to run out of aft trim i.e. I could n't take my hands off — and she did n't feel quite so rock-like and stable coming down the last few hundred feet , but the resulting touchdown was smoother and shorter . |
| 23 | The risks to his person were already great simply coming down the nearly straight avenues from the Palaţul Primaverii to the Central Committee building , but the imaginary dangers threatening him in the area to the west of the hill were too great to be contemplated . |
| 24 | She thought she heard someone coming down the passage , so she grabbed two paper towels and wrapped them round the offending literature . |
| 25 | Their world is being turned upside down by the cable revolution and the string of multimedia technologies coming down the pike , but US telephone companies — both local and long-distance — will maintain strong credit quality throughout the 1990s despite major competitive , regulatory and technological challenges , Moody 's Investors Service Inc concludes in its annual report on the industry . |
| 26 | Tony Milton and his assistant , thank goodness , were coming down the ninth fairway on an electric buggy . |
| 27 | Not , says UI , to kowtow to any kind of preconditions SunSoft wants UI to meet for the firm to close on the desktop issue , but simply that USL does n't have resources to do all the development work coming down the line . |
| 28 | In the face of recent doubts surrounding Intel 's future plans for its i860 RISC , Du Pont says it is now under non-disclosure for a new iteration coming down the line — though there 's no hint of silicon just yet . |
| 29 | Carrie sat around the bed with her mother and Fred chatting for a while , and it was not too long before they saw Joe Maitland coming down the ward . |
| 30 | Seeing Harry coming down the wet , narrow street , she knew straight away that he was bringing bad news . |