Example sentences of "[v-ing] to come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | COUNCILS have been accused of refusing to come to the rescue of hard-pressed small firms struggling to meet their Uniform Business Rate demands . |
| 2 | Many of the East Germans assumed West Germany had again dug into its pocket to ‘ buy out ’ East Germans seeking to come to the West . |
| 3 | Starting was as fraught as ever or even more so because of large craft wanting to come through the start line but it must be said that the cruiser operators were generally very cooperative throughout the race . |
| 4 | If you 're in the situation where you 're waiting to come onto the roundabout , you see somebody who 's indicated left , you assume they 're gon na turn off so you pull onto the roundabout and they 're not , |
| 5 | Faintly , he remembered Lavinia once saying that the little girl from Sea House was going to come to the nursery school next term . |
| 6 | And you was say I 'm going to come to the exit point , I 'm going to say come in here . |
| 7 | Would you like to ask grandma if she 's going to come to the post office with us to help post the parcel ? |
| 8 | Vaguely he wondered when Siban was going to come to the point . |
| 9 | The chain 's director , himself an experienced hairdresser , was going to come to the salon to put things right . |
| 10 | Leigh says : ‘ I honestly thought I was going to be on my own for at least a decade but I did n't know the Twiglet was going to come on the scene . |
| 11 | However , the only disaster occurred inside the Tower , where the duty staff dived to the floor when it looked as if the port wing was going to come through the window and a bottle of red ink emptied itself down the right sleeve of Flt Lt Dunlop , the Officer in Charge . |
| 12 | Northern regional organiser Kevin Scott , said : ‘ We have said there is going to be violence but it is going to come from the Communists , not us . ’ |
| 13 | Well I think much as I welcome the university proceeding down the road that it is , erm I have a very , very strong feeling that change is going to come from the bottom up , and I think that it 'll come from the bottom up in those colleges , like New College , who have got an increasingly large number of women fellows who feel that , you know , there 's safety in numbers and we can start to do something about it . |
| 14 | The maximum impact is going to come from the way you stand , lots of other things , the way you speak that 's based on various studies that were done . |
| 15 | Women 's power is n't going to come from the unions , it 's going to come from being organised as women . |
| 16 | I 'm going to come from the light , right through the abyss ( hell or purgatory ) to help people down here … . |
| 17 | ‘ Are you going to come in the bath with me , Bob ? ’ she asked , reddening . |
| 18 | Candidates include : the inability or unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to stem the banking panic and maintain the money supply ; the failure to use fiscal policy intelligently ( up to and including Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal after 1933 ) ; the uses and abuses of the gold standard ( Britain deciding to go back on the gold standard in 1925 at the pre-1914 parity , then deciding to come off the standard altogether in 1931 ; the refusal of many countries , especially America , to follow gold-standard rules ) ; the outbreak of trade war sparked by America 's Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930 ; and so on . |
| 19 | At this moment , the driver who had already been braking to come into the station , applied his brakes even more sharply and blasted out a warning on his whistle . |
| 20 | It was also clear that the first of a number of PostScript clones , the language definition has always been in the public domain , were beginning to come to the market . |
| 21 | Several systems of computer enhancement and image analysis which can be used with a petrographic microscope are beginning to come on the market and promise relative ease of modal composition evaluation . |
| 22 | The other gypsies leave off dancing to come to the aid of their companions . |
| 23 | The easiest task for Emma was learning to come to the table for lunch when called and once she had started to receive stickers for this she became aware of how to earn them . |
| 24 | Now the staff at St Tigglywinkles Wildlife Hospital in Buckinghamshire are preparing to come to the rescue , taking with them the experience and expertise to deal with sick creatures of the sea . |
| 25 | but , erm , she was hoping to come to the meeting this evening , but she phoned at the last minute and said she could n't make it , but erm , I do n't know if it would be more appropriate perhaps for the schools groups to get in touch with her and I |
| 26 | She held onto herself , trying to come to the surface of her cranial quicksand . |
| 27 | I remember it as horrible , with a smell of cold cabbage seeming to come from the upholstery . |