Example sentences of "[noun sg] coming [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the engine man he was on his knees beside the engine the engine was sticking over and the officer was in charge watching when we was watching the boat coming towards the grating you know . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction , killing the other driver instantly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Parental care is often carried out for many weeks with no harm coming to the young , but you occasionally get a pair that are very prolific and , in their need to spawn they will often eat their previous brood . |
| 7 | A square of light coming through the open hatch made half-hearted patterns through the ladder and silhouetted the Negro . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Just at the point where we were walking , the car suddenly mounted the pavement to avoid a vehicle coming in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Finance was on a film-by-film basis for the most part , with assistance coming from the new National Film Finance Corporation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In 26 matches under Taylor , England have managed just 35 goals , their best return coming in the 4–2 win over Malaysia . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | With the power for this or any other 9-volt pedal coming from the separate rear panel socket , battery changes and adaptor hassles are completely eliminated . |
| 21 | The Faraway Tree are another new band coming onto the burgeoning regional scene . |
| 22 | These pathological findings are in agreement with clinical studies , the most convincing evidence coming from the prospective community study in Framingham . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We came down and realised there was water coming through the back door and the walls . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In April 1986 our 29-year-old son met a lorry coming from the opposite direction with a very heavy utility trailer in tow . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 29 | Stephen saw the police cars coming a long way off , three of them in a convoy coming up the white road from Hilderbridge . |
| 30 | Bill recalls a crew coming into the 149 line-hut after a sortie one day and they snagged the APU as being unserviceable on the Form 700 . |