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

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1 John and the rest of the room seemed to be miles away — even my own voice , when I produced it finally , sounded as if it were coming down a long-distance telephone .
2 Just coming down a little bit .
3 Got ta make cups of tea coming down every half hour .
4 Tony Milton and his assistant , thank goodness , were coming down the ninth fairway on an electric buggy .
5 You 'll hear it coming down the anal passage
6 Dot woke when she heard Gloria coming down the clanky metal steps outside , heard her stumble her way across the room , and then felt herself being pushed to the far side of the bed .
7 The old saying that ‘ it 's coming off a broad back ’ is being stretched beyond its limits .
8 They are identical in the same way that the articles coming off a well-engineered assembly line are identical .
9 When one thinks , however , that coming up the Sacred Way one 's first sight of the building would be the corner , the long Gigantomachy stretching in front of one , the combat of the east abutting on it and the seated gods closing the composition at the end , one understands that it is so designed to suit its position ; as the formal archaic structure of the west frieze suits the highly decorated frontally approached entrance-façade .
10 She was coming up the central passage between the rows of tables .
11 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 .
12 She had made her attitude clear enough to her , heaven knows , but here she was , still coming back every other Sunday , year after year , as welcome as the Irish potato blight .
13 And coming back the other way .
14 But erm , we do seem to be coming out a little bit light .
15 In fact , George Every , then a lay brother at Kelham , with whom I had started a correspondence , told me later that Eliot , while praising some individual points , had said that the general impression it gave was of material being put through a machine and coming out the other side more or less as it was before .
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