Example sentences of "be coming towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm only trying to find just a few more recordings for her because they 're coming towards the end of the er |
| 2 | When the men who are coming towards us have passed , climb back up and run to the place where the staging descends to the street . |
| 3 | I would like to think Mr that you are coming towards the end |
| 4 | As they begin a particular stage of the ministry we also pray for those who are coming towards the end of that particular stage of the ministry . |
| 5 | With this type , the remainder of the model is usually predominantly black , which means that if you can see lots of colour it must be coming towards you ! |
| 6 | As I struggled to my feet and started to search around in the grass for my rifle , two medics were coming towards me . |
| 7 | Teacher : You were coming towards me and I thought you were going to run me over , Peter . |
| 8 | I walked out of the champagne tent in a dream or , rather , a nightmare and put two elderly customers , who were coming towards me and were obviously intent on a reviving glass or two , in peril as I blundered into them . |
| 9 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 10 | They were coming towards them now and Fernando had n't seen her yet ; this was so awful . |
| 11 | And one day we were coming along and these local ladies were coming towards us said oh we love going down the country roads and you know , oh look at all these poor refugees ! |
| 12 | The above two illustrations also indicate the difficulty which can be experienced in discerning whether the model is coming towards you or going away . |
| 13 | If you look at any good policeman , you will notice that he always walks facing the traffic , so that he can see what is coming towards him and is not taken by surprise . |
| 14 | If you are not putting the proper bodywork on the ball which is coming towards you and which you are taking on the rise , then you wo n't have the control . |
| 15 | If you turn over a few chapters in Matthew , into chapter fourteen , you 've got another er watery illustration there , it 's , Jesus is coming towards the disciples , he walking on the water ! |
| 16 | The frequency changes as the train passes and the high note is when the train is coming towards us and the low one when the train is going away , and you get the same effect with light except that instead of being high and low it 's blue shifted if the object is coming towards us and red if it 's going away . |
| 17 | The frequency changes as the train passes and the high note is when the train is coming towards us and the low one when the train is going away , and you get the same effect with light except that instead of being high and low it 's blue shifted if the object is coming towards us and red if it 's going away . |
| 18 | Shut the door ! she 's coming towards the door ninety miles an hour . |
| 19 | One thing worth remarking about this is cosmology and astronomy in general is very unusual science in the sense that when we observe very distant objects in the universe we are observing the universe actually as it was in the past , because the light that 's coming towards us from a distant galaxy or cluster of galaxies actually left that object maybe millions or billions of years ago . |
| 20 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 21 | I stood frozen to the spot unable to do anything ; I could see soldiers diving for cover ; the Frenchman who was coming towards me with a smile on his bearded face was now lying on the ground . |
| 22 | A van was coming towards her from Stowbridge , but it was her daddy 's old one ! |
| 23 | Gerard Souzay was coming towards the end of his career by this time , and there 's some occasional unsteadiness and frayed tone , but his sensitivity to mood is matchless . |
| 24 | It was coming towards the tail-end of skiffle then , and all my mates had guitars . |
| 25 | When she looked back at the road , the red saloon was coming towards her . |
| 26 | As luck would have it , a strapping young woman was coming towards them . |
| 27 | Sliding down the rails , a large dark mass was coming towards them . |
| 28 | A car was coming towards him , signalling . |
| 29 | A Sardinian piper was coming towards him . |
| 30 | The piper was coming towards him wrapped in a black cloak , playing … what had he been playing ? |