Example sentences of "coming [adv prt] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Well , if I can check it on the plan , it 's , the plan actually shows half the site , there 's the central slide way way coming down through the development site , all that occupies , all one side of the slide way . |
| 3 | And seeing these two women coming down through the path towards the city the people of Bethlehem , yo you 'll read it there in the opening of chapter two in the book of Ruth , the people of Bethlehem , they left their fields and came running to greet them ! |
| 4 | Th the strong highlight on the reflection on the water obviously is a thing which makes the picture as , and also the , the sort of rays of sun coming down through the cloud . |
| 5 | I thought , when I heard him coming down through the bushes , it could be no one but Tutilo . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | A rain waterpipe burst and water was coming in through the kitchen ceiling . |
| 8 | However , the proposals , kicked out of the front door last year , are now coming in through the back . |
| 9 | A little grey light was coming in through the window . |
| 10 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 11 | Coming in through the door |
| 12 | Beyond them , just coming in through the door , she saw Pascoe . |
| 13 | You never know what 's just coming in through the door . ’ |
| 14 | Just coming in through the door at that very minute was Detective-Constable Edwards . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | The draught coming in through the ventilation ducts made it tremble continuously . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This must be him just coming in through the side door . |
| 19 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 20 | Captain Paul Donohue says they 've got a lot of young players coming up through the ranks of the Oxford City Ice Hockey Club . |
| 21 | ROS : It 's coming up through the floor . |
| 22 | It was well after midnight , getting on for one o'clock , when I went to open the bedroom window , and saw someone coming up through the garden from the bay . ’ |
| 23 | I coming up through the floorboards . |
| 24 | Then she noticed some small green shoots coming up through the grass . |
| 25 | ‘ No , you ca n't ! ’ said Thomas , coming back through the baize door positively pink with self-importance . |
| 26 | coming back through the side here |
| 27 | Then you see an express train apparently coming out through the embankment while a gigantic head capped with flowers revolves high above and you realise it will be an amazing day . |
| 28 | While they advocated and worked for such extensions of democracy the European social democratic parties , whether or not they claimed to be Marxist and revolutionary , were also , for the most part , firmly committed to political democracy in the narrower sense ; and where the necessary conditions were present — the legal existence of socialist parties , elections conducted on the basis of ( at least ) universal male suffrage , and participation in parliament and government — they made plain that although they did not renounce extra-parliamentary forms of class action they envisaged the transition from capitalism to socialism as coming about through the will of a majority of citizens , clearly and publicly expressed in elections . |