Example sentences of "have [been] come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 2 | Another insight that has been coming to me consistently is that instead of beseeching God to undertake certain actions or to grant certain mercies or blessings we should state our faith that He is already and always at work in the way that we desire , so that our petition becomes an expansion of our address to Him , a relative clause expressing our conviction of faith that He is already doing what we were about to request Him to do . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been thinking , ’ said Melissa while Iris ladled out dollops of home-made fruit yoghurt , ‘ whoever has been coming to Angy 's class and calling herself Delia Forbes must know the real Delia is away . ’ |
| 4 | Harold Lock has been coming to the pool since he was a child and says it would be a crime to close it down . |
| 5 | The penal system wields power over its subjects , but its moral right to do so has been coming under strong attack . |
| 6 | Some growing churches which have broadcast their ‘ success ’ do not want to look too closely at where their new growth has been coming from . |
| 7 | A lot of talking has been coming from Eubank 's camp and I 've kept quiet , but now it 's my turn . |
| 8 | Well the nurse has been coming in every second day . |
| 9 | This is a copy of Countryd Top copy sent to OBITS Country Diary for Saturday December 9th Machynlleth : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
| 10 | A Country Diary : MACHYNLLETH : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
| 11 | The patient 's name was Wayne Benfield and he 'd been coming into the centre for daily dressings to an injured ankle . |
| 12 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 13 | And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about . |
| 14 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 15 | A close friend said last night : ‘ The agony for Graham will have been coming to a decision with Brenda . |
| 16 | A Royal Ulster Constabulary spokesman said : ‘ Although he may have been coming to the end of his racing career , he was potentially valuable for stud purposes . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I think it must have been coming from the cold of the church into the warmth , or , perhaps — ’ and she made a wan attempt at humour — ‘ it might have been the thought of attending the ladies ’ sewing circle which overcame me ! ’ |
| 18 | HMS Reading should have been coming in the other direction . |
| 19 | The creature which should not have been came for her , clawhands jerking . |
| 20 | If its august it must be Fairport … for these fifty Americans … some of whom having been coming for ten years … their annual pilgrimage to Oxfordshire for the Fairport Convention festival starts with a meeting with the folk rock band in a local pub . |
| 21 | The convoys had been coming through all week . |
| 22 | Ethel shook her head in puzzlement , but a gleam had been coming into Eames 's eyes . |
| 23 | I remember one bloke who was part of a working class West London crowd that had been coming into the shop since the early days . |
| 24 | We had been coming onto the main road at about five miles an hour when three men had blocked our exit . |
| 25 | Bristol had previously been heavily involved in the Iceland trade , but had been coming under pressure from increasing Hanse power there , and its merchants may well have been looking for alternative supplies of fish — it is worth stressing that the ships sent out in 1481 in search of the ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ were carrying a large quantity of salt ( 45 , pp.188–9 ; 94 , pp.177–82 ) . |
| 26 | She was not unexpected ; she had been coming for months . |
| 27 | Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English . |
| 28 | Even more part of it than Rosie , who had been coming for years . |
| 29 | Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him . |
| 30 | Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony . |