Example sentences of "coming [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there and perhaps coming on to the Residents ' Association point that made in their proof , that our forecasts actually show that on balance , er er there would be an increase in flow in fact on the on that route as it approaches the A sixty one . |
| 2 | Traffic levels in the city are growing rapidly , with 500 additional vehicles coming on to the streets every day . |
| 3 | The expressway flies over quiet suburban streets with old-fashioned lamps coming on among the elms . |
| 4 | you 're coming along to the doctors . |
| 5 | The politicians coming along in the states decolonised in 1960 ‘ have benefited from the spadework done for them . |
| 6 | ‘ She was out of the oxygen tent earlier- and her temperature was coming down with the antibiotics but then when she came to … she opened her eyes and suddenly seemed to go into a panic . |
| 7 | He had lost much blood , his helm was notably dinted , and the head inside it already dazed and misty as the dusk coming down on the hills . |
| 8 | Coming down off the mountains , Matthiessen first finds that he loses the calm and joy of the transfiguration of his perception in high places and becomes a prey to irritation and a sense of desolation and purposelessness — his past experience apparently rendered hallucinatory in the face of his present sense of failure . |
| 9 | In his essay ‘ The Novelist at the Crossroads ’ , Lodge sees most British authors hesitating between , or combining in a variety of ways , the possibilities of a main road of tradition — ‘ the realist novel … coming down through the Victorians and Edwardians ’ — and alternatives offered by modernism and the developments that have followed it ( Lodge 1971 : 18 ) . |
| 10 | I thought , when I heard him coming down through the bushes , it could be no one but Tutilo . |
| 11 | I tried to stop him , but it were Mr Benedict coming down through the kitchens in such a bang and shouting for his groom that started it . ’ |
| 12 | Since the entire political strategy of his Democratic Leadership Council has been to persuade white folks that the Democratic Party no longer cares for ‘ minorities ’ and will target no particular money in their direction , Clinton has been predictably low on concrete ideas , coming down from the hills after the battle to suffocate the wounded with great cushions of blather about how ‘ we ’ have ‘ refused to confront our differences ’ and ‘ for this neglect we have all paid ’ . |
| 13 | He rang off , and it was only minutes before they heard the chug of the engine of his jeep coming down from the hills in the still of the morning . |
| 14 | Every brook coming down from the heights was swollen into a torrent , every valley river gulped these tributaries into its heart , and burst out over the narrow meadows into languid shallows , while in the centre it rushed ahead with treacherous force . |
| 15 | These three members of the Procellariidae family have one thing in common : they are all ‘ night birds ’ , only coming in to the screes and grassy slopes of the cliffs under cover of darkness to change places with their mate on the single egg , deep within a burrow , or later to feed the young . |
| 16 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 17 | and they 're coming in with the colds and the shivers and not feeling very well . |
| 18 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 19 | A single-glazed window has a ‘ cold zone ’ around it where you 'll get convection draughts ( as well as the draughts coming in through the gaps ) . |
| 20 | As one would expect , the majority of the sentenced prisoners coming in through the gates had received short terms , but 121 ( 13 per cent ) had been admitted to serve sentences over five years and 84 of these had received life imprisonment for murder . |
| 21 | finally news is coming in from the ski-slopes of Europe that a strange bird has been spotted … an eagle … yes Eddie the Eagle is back in business |
| 22 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 23 | As transport costs rose and London 's reputation for violence after dark grew , business was increasingly dependent on coachloads of theatregoers coming in from the provinces . |
| 24 | Led by a small boy in shorts and singlet and over-large wellingtons , a herd of cows was coming in from the fields . |
| 25 | Corbett bowed respectfully and , pushing by the labourers and other villeins coming in from the fields to break their fasts , went out of the Galilee Gate , across the track and into the woods . |
| 26 | Moran said : ‘ Director Jack Walker 's money has enabled the manager to put down a good foundation and if we can get Roy coming in alongside the likes of Alan Shearer , the club will really be going places . ’ |
| 27 | I inspected the room in the faint light coming in around the shutters . |
| 28 | We got a shit-load of stuff coming through about the hostages . ’ |
| 29 | When there was a sense of unrest and what not , and then first one ship then the other , starts shuddering but before that happened we saw Germans coming off in the rafts and that . |
| 30 | I think we are coming up to the peaks now . ’ |