Example sentences of "[noun sg] coming [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the despairing cries of ‘ oops ! ’ from the light beams , she could now hear a muffled , mocking chant coming from the ray-gun box : ‘ Yah , yer missed ! |
| 2 | For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction , killing the other driver instantly . |
| 3 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | I recognized some pirated recordings of Sade in cabaret coming from the upper floor and , louder , some mid-period John Coltrane from the living-room . |
| 5 | A square of light coming through the open hatch made half-hearted patterns through the ladder and silhouetted the Negro . |
| 6 | Lying together in bed with creme brulee and champagne to hand , the only light coming from the soundless telly , curtains left open to the soft night , they talked over old times . |
| 7 | And that this wealth was not locked in land or designated for heirs : it was fine fresh wealth coming into the great port of Liverpool by the month , by the week even , in the form of Ceylon tea , Indian jute , Irish coal — Mr Crump had an encyclopaedia of imports which he rattled off in diffident haste . |
| 8 | Just at the point where we were walking , the car suddenly mounted the pavement to avoid a vehicle coming in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | A police officer who was at the scene of the crash said , ‘ Mrs Gallagher was travelling on her own side when struck by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction on her side of the road . ’ |
| 10 | As Cameron turned back to the mill , he saw a small coach coming along the Grandtully road with a pair of deerhounds loping at its wheels and a man on horseback behind it dressed in an expensive tweed cloak . |
| 11 | In 26 matches under Taylor , England have managed just 35 goals , their best return coming in the 4–2 win over Malaysia . |
| 12 | In order to observe a primordial black hole one would have to detect several gamma ray quanta coming from the same direction within a reasonable space of time , such as a week . |
| 13 | However , the political system is " open " and there is nothing to prevent any issue coming onto the governmental agenda for action and decision if an interest group seeks to put it there . |
| 14 | There is no universal agreement , for example , that the mid-1970s represented a fundamental break in political attitudes — aspects of the ‘ new ’ capitalism coming from the Conservative party in the mid-1970s can be traced back to Churchill 's administration in the early 1950s ( Raban , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | Instantly hardening , it has effectively blocked an estimated 50 per cent of the force of the eruption coming from a new fissure . |
| 16 | That was Fiona , in the bed , on the bed , covers half off , the only light in the room coming from a little candle by the bedside , her hair spilled on the pillow ( the other pillow was on the floor ) … and that was Lachlan Watt , wrapped round her , body bucking like some horse , his hands at her neck , at one breast , in her hair , cupping her neck ; the covers sliding off , Fiona putting her arms wide , clutching at the bottom sheet of the bed at one side , clutching the edge of the bedside table with the other . |
| 17 | They are , to use Lord Justice Buckley 's apt expression , the " fruit derived from a fund employed and risked " in a business coming within the statutory definition . |
| 18 | This is a gutsy South African first novel , a romantic adventure , with the next one in hardback coming at the same time , and she will be in the UK promoting . |
| 19 | Perceptions may change — her body can feel as vast as a mountain , and her own breathing be heard as an urgent sound coming from a different person . |
| 20 | These pathological findings are in agreement with clinical studies , the most convincing evidence coming from the prospective community study in Framingham . |
| 21 | Instead , my attention was caught by the evidence coming from the hippocampal work , discussed in the last chapter , about the role of the phosphorylated proteins of the synaptic membrane . |
| 22 | We came down and realised there was water coming through the back door and the walls . |
| 23 | The majestic river , bringing life from the sea to mingle with the fresh water coming from the wooded valleys of the Upper Thames , has withdrawn : it is like a very old face , once-beautiful skin shrunk and wizened , hollows and grey lines instead of rosy cheeks . |
| 24 | In April 1986 our 29-year-old son met a lorry coming from the opposite direction with a very heavy utility trailer in tow . |
| 25 | Alan Dawtrey was driving a Metro at about 80 mph on the wrong side of the road before it smashed into a lorry coming in the opposite direction , Oxford Crown Court heard . |
| 26 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 27 | Stephen saw the police cars coming a long way off , three of them in a convoy coming up the white road from Hilderbridge . |
| 28 | Clasper was becoming more isolated , with his dwindling support coming from a small core of left-wingers who considered the fight to be a question of principle , namely union solidarity against management . |
| 29 | It would have been impossible for the Falklands War to be prosecuted successfully with every decision coming to the full Cabinet of twenty-three members , a state of affairs that would have taken every other item off the agenda . |
| 30 | Central government paid 10 per cent of the cost of unemployment benefit , the remainder coming from the republican government . |