Example sentences of "a [noun] coming [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead .
2 Then she looked behind her and saw a carriage coming up the same hill that she had just climbed , with a man leading the horse .
3 I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand .
4 There is no pronounced tug of any kind , just a tremor coming up the line that feels as though someone is drawing a hacksaw blade across it .
5 She could see the ground for a distance round the beech-tree , and as she gazed down she noticed a man coming along a path a short distance away .
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