Example sentences of "coming [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Terry from hire is coming for the red minibus . |
2 | The applause , scattered at first , thickened , took on a note of real enthusiasm , and tinny music could be heard threading through it , and then J. J. Gerrard was coming through the wide entrance at the back of the dais , his rather fat face heavily serious over his pink shirt , walking purposefully to the chair in the center . |
3 | And coming through the arched gateway — Jess ! |
4 | A square of light coming through the open hatch made half-hearted patterns through the ladder and silhouetted the Negro . |
5 | Rachel had been quiet but now Carrie could hear her stirring , the growing sounds of protest coming through the open door . |
6 | Who said and on which occasion : ‘ In church on Sunday it was lovely , and the sun was coming through the stained glass window and falling on some flowers . |
7 | The old lady would have been a lissome girl , like the girls now coming through the main entrance of the boma , carrying large plastic containers of water on their heads , keeping them in place by a casual touch of the hand . |
8 | cos there is n't no ventilator in it , and that 's the one we sleep in cos we 're frightened of people coming through the back door in the night , you know kicking in the back door , so we sleep in the other room . |
9 | We came down and realised there was water coming through the back door and the walls . |
10 | starting a little brown smoulder mark it were like that all the through the electric blanket of course all the through the the sheets all through the sheets and blankets and it had just coming through the top counterpane we used have a |
11 | The recollection of the summer evening sunlight coming through the large window behind the preacher 's head evokes many nostalgic memories . |
12 | Coming between the poetic neo-romanticism of the war years and the potentially overwhelming influence of American abstraction , theirs was a quiet but genuinely felt and observed art which shows its strength by continuing to flourish in its unsensational way . |
13 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |
14 | A low , scudding cloudbank was coming off the western horizon , purple with unshed rain . |
15 | Gunnell , a real golden girl with glittering earrings and necklace as she attacked the barriers , pulled up alongside the exotic Farmer-Patrick coming off the final bend . |
16 | The need to keep the foot horizontal makes coming off the steep ice onto easier angled terrain a difficult manoeuvre . |
17 | Erm thanks very much for the directions er you gave me , it 's quite awkward coming off the main road there cos you really have |
18 | In both cases however the infinitive evokes a result — something therefore which is conceived as coming after the actual operation of perception . |
19 | Coming after the sleepless night spent with Felicity , it was bound to affect him pretty badly . |
20 | On the last lap , we watched three cars coming towards the chequered flag almost side by side : Andretti , Depailler and Hunt . |
21 | Although most nomadic tribes have a long history of weaving rugs specifically for trade , a number of items coming onto the western market may well have been made originally for personal use . |
22 | However , the political system is " open " and there is nothing to prevent any issue coming onto the governmental agenda for action and decision if an interest group seeks to put it there . |
23 | We had been coming onto the main road at about five miles an hour when three men had blocked our exit . |
24 | Cabinet memoranda are not published and the Official Secrets Act effectively prohibits anything but titbits of information coming onto the public agenda for consideration . |
25 | But erm she 's coming along the right way so it 's trap two , Smoky Amber for me there ; dangers I think will be Barefoot Champion six and Marla Gain in five . |
26 | As Cameron turned back to the mill , he saw a small coach coming along the Grandtully road with a pair of deerhounds loping at its wheels and a man on horseback behind it dressed in an expensive tweed cloak . |
27 | So every everything was held right up so what we did was we was we cut back off we 're coming along the main road cut back off and went all down Halbury New Road and along Beach Road and around that way . |
28 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
29 | But next day I 'm coming along the High Street when I meet little Darius — you know him ? — and he says there 's two guys broke into my flat and they 're waiting for me . ’ |
30 | However , the drivers to avoid are the one in 100 who complete fewer than 520 miles per year — they 're the ones you meet coming up the wrong side of the motorway . |