Example sentences of "was come [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the problem was to come up with the right kind of songs which would still act as vehicles for the guitar — because , basically , the song itself is the most important thing . |
| 2 | His solution was to come up with the first table of annual premiums based on life expectancy . |
| 3 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 4 | The day shift was coming up into the twilight , miners with tired and miserable faces trooping out , their clothes as tattered as those of the miners in the Borinage . |
| 5 | A thick , gold moon was coming up over the sea , glittering on the roofs of the town below them . |
| 6 | They ran side by side , easy with training , breathless only with amazement , and now the sun was coming up over the edge of the sea and the whole world was sharp and glittery , concrete and weeds , and the barbed wire hanging drops of dew and spiders ' webs . |
| 7 | You had to make her feel she was coming up with the original idea . |
| 8 | Thinking how quiet she 'd gone when he said he was coming up for the funeral and how she 'd seemed to withdraw into herself . |
| 9 | The underground revolution was coming up to the surface , although it was nowhere near breaking through . |
| 10 | I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop . |
| 11 | William completed his five-year stay in Clerkenwell successfully ; by the time it was over his brother Benjamin James was already down in Somerset and Charles Frederick was coming up to the age when he , too , would become an apprentice . |
| 12 | What they , yes , what they done , they used to have a large long pull with a hook on and attached to a rope and as the ship was coming up to the river , they would throw this here pole on to a ship with a hook and then pay the rope out and then get towed up to the quay , the ship would n't stop for them to pick them up , pick that boat |
| 13 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 14 | They were identical with their small upper windows , narrow porches and square bays , but it was obvious that the road was coming up in the world . |
| 15 | Towards the end of a long and tiring night shift , when news was coming through of the murder of another member of the RUC , one policeman in particular decided to put the field-worker through a test of trust . |
| 16 | ‘ When we split up I was really pissed off that we had n't achieved a lot of things we could have done , and that mood was coming through in the last records because it was depressing . |
| 17 | There was one obvious difference : she was coming through from the Other Side . |
| 18 | You talk about going and — all I was afraid she was going to do — she was coming on to the road so she would run into me ! |
| 19 | She 's not the one that was coming round with the baby ? |
| 20 | no , it was Michelle that was coming round with the baby |
| 21 | Now I do n't know how they managed this dear because she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around and there you are you see . |
| 22 | and I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that , I did n't know what , now I do n't know how they manage this year because , she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around , there you are , you see , these , they , they will love and find a way , anyway , erm , I said dear look , a woman needs a man to support her I said mark my words when the chap that she 's got at the moment is taken her out to disco 's and things , she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
| 23 | She 's not the one that was coming around with the baby ? |
| 24 | It was Michelle who was coming around with the baby . |
| 25 | It was coming over from the Empire , the colonies , as you know , and masses of grain coming in from America and Canada . |
| 26 | He was coming out of the rough and flying . |
| 27 | ‘ Ah ! ’ explained Jim , ‘ I wondered about that one , I shot it at dusk Sunday night as it was coming out of the ’ Grove ’ , that 's a small wood young lady' he explained . |
| 28 | Cis was coming out of the Co-op one day ( hoping that Rich had not , yet again , taken some cigarettes and put them on her account ) , when she met a bristle-moustached Meredith Jones who demanded , ‘ How can you let him do it ? ’ |
| 29 | A train was coming out of the tunnel . |
| 30 | He was therefore scowling as he bumped into his own wife , who was coming out of the Russell Inn just as he was entering . |