Example sentences of "of coming [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if that were n't discomfort enough , you also have to make heroic efforts to stifle your giggles at the Old Fire Station , Oxford , for Miss Miles has a way of coming up with lines that are almost sublime in their ridiculousness . |
| 2 | In most cases they did not go far or , if they did , the paths from their region to the city had been well-trodden by kinsmen and neighbours , like the hawkers and seasonal building workers who had long been in the habit of coming up to Paris from central France , whose numbers grew with the constructional work of Paris until , after 1870 , they turned from seasonal into permanent migrants . |
| 3 | Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave . |
| 4 | ‘ It is all part of the psychological phenomenon of coming out of recession . |
| 5 | The thrill of coming out of Oxford Circus tube and seeing a pile of me at the news-stand was pretty hard to beat . |
| 6 | Today the town shows some signs of coming back to life . |
| 7 | But erm I stopped there till the war was finished and then er I went back to the Lock and as asked them if th there was any chance of coming back to work there , you know , cos and er they said oh yes , as long as you like . |
| 8 | Bishop Lesslie Newbigin ( 1983 ) describes the effect of coming back to England after years in the mission field as one of shock : a realisation that there was little hope . |
| 9 | I divided some of those files into sub-files and we have got rid of quite a bit of it now so you need n't be frightened of coming back to week-end working . |
| 10 | It was with a slight shock of coming back to reality that she remembered her resolution to visit Miss Grimes on her way home that evening , as part of her contribution to Christmas goodwill , a sort of ‘ good turn ’ done to somebody for whom one felt no affection . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I can understand you hanging on here instead of coming back to Berlin . |
| 12 | Er they were thinking of coming back on Sunday |
| 13 | This shareware release allows us to enjoy the challenge of coming in under par at any time of the day whatever the weather . |
| 14 | Your chances of coming down to London and finding someone who may have been there over a decade ago are not just slim , they 're non-existent . |
| 15 | Instead of coming down on players who , like Bryan Gunn , the Norwich goalkeeper , give rational views of incidents to newspapers , the FA might do better to examine the irrational attitudes created by some of those running the teams . |