Example sentences of "be come [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think , we have got all these seeds though in the greenhouse , and they 're coming up a treat ! |
| 2 | Er Welsh colts and things of that nature are coming back a bit now , they are building up now er but |
| 3 | ‘ Yeah , the morning will be sunny , the afternoon will be coming up a storm . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She 's coming off a couple of losers , and Hollywood is watching her . ’ |
| 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 | The first cart was coming around a bend in the road . |