Example sentences of "coming [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying to mould together a side in only four days with eight players coming together for the first time is a pretty difficult task . |
| 2 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 3 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 4 | The wind was strong and darkness coming nearer by the second . |
| 5 | Both teams were somewhat weakened for this visit of Lansdowne to Eaton Park but Ballymena just about deserved their narrow 3–0 win , the only score of the game , a penalty by Derek McAleese coming midway through the second half . |
| 6 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 7 | ‘ IT 'S been disappointing coming here for the last 20 years — so let's not get carried away with this defeat ’ . |