Example sentences of "was just coming [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun was just coming up over the far bank , trailing a red reflection across the water . |
| 2 | I was just coming up to Scotland for a holiday . |
| 3 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 4 | I was just coming out of my tomboy stage . |
| 5 | She was just coming out of Credit Agricole , having cashed some traveller 's cheques , when she saw Antoinette emerging from the pharmacie opposite . |
| 6 | Eleanor was just coming out of Mrs Foster 's shop . |
| 7 | María , the young woman who kept the bar , was just coming back from church , her head still covered by a black lace mantilla . |
| 8 | Jus , just there Gloucester Road , I was just coming back from Witham . |
| 9 | The first thing was when I got there , my parents took me up there and the cow man was just coming back from going in with the cows , and he looked across at me in my sparkling white , new uniform , you know , land army girl sort of standing , ’ Ah , you be my new mate then ! ’ you should have seen my mother 's face ! |
| 10 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |