Example sentences of "[v-ing] to come [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the also sympathetic but Grahamly maddening Tim is struggling to move into a flat on the row , while supposing himself to be struggling to come out of the closet . |
| 2 | Before the meeting , you know at the moment John Major is in Moscow , erm before that meeting there 'll have been much work done by the officials on briefing papers , on trying to identify the potential issues that are going to come up in the meeting , there 'll have been a lot of background work that would be similar er to patterns of relationships between various departments erm in any process of decision making . |
| 3 | So presenting the centre line and okay we 're going to come on to the eye contact as well in a moment , presenting the centre line with eye contact means that it feels much more positive for the audience in terms of the delivery . |
| 4 | But obviously the heavier pieces of furniture , the more durable ones , are also the more expensive , and when it 's largely the money for them 's going to come out of the husband 's pocket they 're going to have more of a stake in erm in saying what they want . |
| 5 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm terribly afraid it 's going to come down in the marshland . |
| 7 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 8 | She assumed that , having had time to think things over , he was going to come back with the decision to tell Marc everything that had led up to this crazy engagement of theirs . |
| 9 | During the operation , I 'm going to come back to the door in a minute , during the operation which gun were you carrying ? |
| 10 | One moment they seemed to be flying through and over mountains and the next they were skimming over a long , fertile valley , turning to come in with the wind and losing height steadily . |
| 11 | There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages . |
| 12 | But he always leaves it as if he is n't expecting to come back in the morning . " |
| 13 | Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange . |
| 14 | I remember my father used to say that even those experiences that take us out of ourselves — the ‘ mountain-top ’ experiences — can never keep us from having to come down to the valley of ordinary existence . |
| 15 | Because often I would be alone with her up there : not like other children , having to come down to the drawing-room at five o'clock , brought by nurse , on their best behaviour . |