Example sentences of "coming [adv prt] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of a long and tiring night shift , when news was coming through of the murder of another member of the RUC , one policeman in particular decided to put the field-worker through a test of trust . |
| 2 | I heard him only a short while ago coming out of the bathroom . |
| 3 | If you use a shower attachment rather than a simple measuring jug , take care to ensure that the water coming out of the nozzle does not suddenly change temperature . |
| 4 | He can do nothing , though , because the stuffing is coming out of the armchair he is sitting in , and before anything else can happen he has to decide whether to get it re-covered or buy a new one . |
| 5 | Abelard 's theory , coming out of the experiences and theology of his day , presents a challenge to modern Christians who , all too easily , overintellectualize their faith . |
| 6 | When a worker , coming out of the nest , sees the corpse , its instinct is to pick it up and remove it , for that is part of its regular nest-cleaning duties . |
| 7 | He looks really dodgy coming out of the woods like that does n't he ? |
| 8 | The next generation of OLTP technologies now coming out of the labs are based upon reliable queuing mechanisms — messaging services which allow distributed OLTP systems to be linked together but which maintain the integrity of transactions . |
| 9 | In naturally acid areas , or where acid rain has made the water more acid , lead pipes are a serious hazard to health because the water strips the metal from the pipe walls and it ends up coming out of the tap . |
| 10 | It is no wonder that , hearing that uncanny sound coming out of the mist , the old sailors ascribed it to mermaids or sirens or strange creatures of the deep . |
| 11 | K. R. There were mainly annoying types of things — such as lads playing football in the street and that sort of thing , and the drunks coming out of the pub , and on the corner . |
| 12 | A. M. I went into Lime Street one night at ten o'clock and found a crowd of lads on the corner of Skelhorne Street coming out of the pub . |
| 13 | Seeing all those people coming out of the pub to watch me was fantastic , ’ says Brian . |
| 14 | There are also a number of traffic put into er slow down traffic , being seen in many cases to be used as a target practice for people coming out of the pub on Saturday night . |
| 15 | The first Unix Reseller Show & Conference , set for May 4–6 , 1993 in Dallas , is apparently coming out of the blocks stronger than anticipated . |
| 16 | The new ruck-maul law , rather than resulting in quicker and cleaner ball , could end up with the sort of pile-up seen here when New South Wales took on Fiji in the recent Super Six Series as defending players desperately try to stop the ball coming out of the rucks or mauls . |
| 17 | The problem is that more has been coming out of the pot than going into it over recent years . |
| 18 | The doors sighed and closed with tender regret , and the whole train growled and shook itself like a dog coming out of the sea . |
| 19 | He noticed figures coming out of the barn , walking slowly and painfully to their homes . |
| 20 | Erm and er what I would like to see , and I 've long wanted to see this coming out of the church , is a rite of passage that I with integrity can offer to any parents who come to me with a , a , a lovely little baby in their arms saying to me parish minister can you give us something that would satisfy us , and they 're not saying it like this , but they want a rite of passage . |
| 21 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 22 | A train was coming out of the tunnel . |
| 23 | US design was offering the evergreen Chevrolet Corvette but the most interesting car coming out of the US — via Britain — was the Ford GT40 , originally a Lola design . |
| 24 | On the other side of the yard , the first of the City 's homeless were coming out of the union . |
| 25 | Only women 's liberation , coming out of the decade of the Pill , permissiveness and the sexual revolution , inverted the question — women 's problem was heterosexuality . |
| 26 | She saw , coming out of the hut and walking across towards the gate , Pete and Sammy , two of her youth volunteers . |
| 27 | She looked at the smoke coming out of the Zimmermann chimney . |
| 28 | Richard saw , with reservations , where his duty lay , and put Dreadnought on the market through the agency of an old RNVR friend of his , who had gone into partnership , on coming out of the forces , as an estate agent in Halkin Street . |
| 29 | Er men were coming , young men were coming out of the forces and er they wanted their jobs back and er I began to wonder what was going to happen to me , if , because I was on the temporary staff and erm there was no guarantee that I 'd be able to stay erm , and then of course erm I was thinking of probably getting married and erm er the salary at that stage was n't er , was n't very much to get married on . |
| 30 | Nearly two decades later his installation Art Show at the Centre Pompidou foregrounded figures with tape decks for hearts , which gave out phoney art jargon , with hot air literally coming out of the figures ’ vents ( Rickey 1983 ) . |