Example sentences of "coming [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ Mariana 's coming down the meadow . |
5 | ‘ The omnibus coming down the rue du Bac , ’ replied the young man . |
6 | I 've seen the video tape of Tom and I coming down the 18th . |
7 | The crowd cheered us in of course , but it 's not the same as coming down the last as the winner for sure . |
8 | ‘ I never thought you could run like that , Sarah , ’ said Angela , coming down the slope and joining them . |
9 | Crowds of people were coming down the quays , all heading eastwards . |
10 | Coming down the scale a little , another pair of helical mirror images is provided by the cochleae , the frequency analysers in our ears . |
11 | Certainly a Glory was coming down the factory drive . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | She thought she heard someone coming down the passage , so she grabbed two paper towels and wrapped them round the offending literature . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Tony Milton and his assistant , thank goodness , were coming down the ninth fairway on an electric buggy . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Seeing Harry coming down the wet , narrow street , she knew straight away that he was bringing bad news . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | So my sisters er When we was coming down the lanes , now them country lanes , were n't all done nice , they were grass , where the carts used to come through . |
24 | Light coming down the barrel is focussed by a small plastic lens onto the photo-diode and the device is sensitive enough to detect the changes in intensity of the picture . |
25 | Coming down the passage towards her was Cobalt . |
26 | The roar of the water coming down the gully drummed at my ears as I inched the Toyota into the bend . |
27 | It was virtually a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and very sharp , the culvert blocked with stone and the remains of a small tree , so that the full volume of the water coming down the gully was swirling across the track to disappear over the edge , thundering down into the main gorge of the Jequetepeque . |
28 | The sound indicated that she was coming down the mast . |
29 | This time he could almost hear a patient sigh coming down the telephone . |
30 | Coffin heard feet coming down the staircase from the upper floor of the house . |