Example sentences of "been coming [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | We had been coming onto the main road at about five miles an hour when three men had blocked our exit . |
2 | Sheriff 's Deputy Mark Ray said Salata had been coming to the secure Polo Club development , where 23-year-old Steffi has a home , at least three times a day for three days in an attempt to see her . |
3 | For years now people from neighbouring Austria , particularly from Graz and Vienna have been coming across the Hungarian border on shopping trips . |
4 | HMS Reading should have been coming in the other direction . |
5 | This afternoon , however , she was too much perturbed in her mind to trouble about such things , and she rounded the corner at a run which would have spelt disaster had anyone been coming in the opposite direction . |