Example sentences of "coming [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , worried folk were coming along from the Tower to Billingsgate , some carrying a few possessions . |
| 2 | As Roberto was coming down from the top of his back-swing , the spectators leaned forward on to the fencing causing a crack like thunder . |
| 3 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 4 | And then they had the adits coming down from the top . |
| 5 | The ‘ Glamaig Water ’ etching is in fact the Allt Daraich coming down from the corrie to the south of Glamaig and there I found one of the most reassuring sights of the Rambles . |
| 6 | At first , I thought it was spilt wine but then it spread and I noticed little splashes coming down from the ceiling above . |
| 7 | If people coming down from the North wearing British Coal Rugby League jumpers think they 're travelling away from home and the event is rather special , imagine the feelings of an Australian as he goes up that long concourse to the Vatican of the inflated rubber bladder . |
| 8 | Similarly , in 1469 he speaks of the rising against Edward IV as a whirlwind coming down from the North ( 14 , pp.531 , 542 ) . |
| 9 | Perhaps you can make another batch when we see him coming down from the moor-edge , ’ she suggested to her mother . |
| 10 | I suddenly saw a burning plane coming down from the sky … with its nose pointing towards the apartment buildings . |
| 11 | Peter saw a big sheet coming down from the sky , full of animals … |
| 12 | They were coming down from the Quarry , bigger engines . |
| 13 | Aye coming down from the cross . |
| 14 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 15 | Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous . |
| 16 | They went higher , up the steep winding road , snow banked high on either side of them and no traffic at all coming down from the pass . |
| 17 | " Hazel , " said Speedwell suddenly , " there 's a rabbit coming down from the warren . |
| 18 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 19 | ‘ I think they know what 's to be done , Mrs Crumwallis , ’ said Hilary Frome , coming in from the sitting-room and taking immediate charge . |
| 20 | ‘ I say , ’ said Pickerage , coming in from the sitting-room . |
| 21 | I have an army of women coming in from the village to do all that . |
| 22 | Coming in from the South we now have a welcome from the RAF . |
| 23 | The night was dark and a fog was coming in from the river , but she hesitated . |
| 24 | Museums are finally coming in from the cold , to take their place alongside a whole range of other cultural facilities such as zoos , botanic gardens , planetariums , libraries , and the like — all of which are striving , in their own distinctive ways , to contribute to the informal education of the public as a whole . |
| 25 | Although the recent decisions on the Channel Tunnel and the PBKAL ( Paris-Brussels-Cologne-Amsterdam-London ) line are signs that Britain may be coming in from the cold , the country is still seen as an isolated outpost of a European transport network in which the main traffic flows will run north to south linking the industrial areas of France , Germany and Italy . |
| 26 | Since the 1920's Berlin has been a city encountered through images : Doblin , Pabst and Isherwood ; the diabolic glamour of Nazism ; Year Zero ; the Airlift ; John Kennedy and spies coming in from the cold ; the generation of " 68 , the stylized desperation of the punk underground , and angels made corporeal . |
| 27 | PENSIONERS in East Cleveland could be coming in from the cold as far as weather payments are concerned . |
| 28 | Like many scientists , campaigners at Friends of the Earth in London ( including the author ) had assumed that the absence of strong evidence for forest decline in Britain might be due to a combination of climate ( moist conditions good for growing trees ) coupled with the possibility that magnesium in rain coming in from the sea might counteract leaching by acid rain . |
| 29 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 30 | Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole . |