Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] coming " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not often that I can say a piece of equipment is inspiring , but reviewing the A2 actually got me coming up with some ideas that I just had to get on tape . |
| 2 | However , a third place in the Findus Chase behind River Tarquin at Leopardstown last Christmas showed him coming back to something like his old form and he certainly lost no admirers through his performance at Sandown . |
| 3 | And then we heard them coming in : gas pings , crowings , croonings , cacklings . |
| 4 | Quite soon I heard them coming up the stairs . |
| 5 | ‘ Since Maurice heard them coming for him that night . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Because he heard me coming , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 7 | Lisabeth appeared in her doorway as she heard me coming back up . |
| 8 | ‘ Bonaventure probably left when he heard you coming ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I heard you coming , ’ she said . |
| 10 | She heard him coming back up the stairs , she knew his limping step now . |
| 11 | I thought , when I heard him coming down through the bushes , it could be no one but Tutilo . |
| 12 | I heard him leaving because I had n't been in bed very long , and I heard him coming back because I had a bit of indigestion and I could n't sleep . ’ |
| 13 | She heard him coming upstairs in quite an ordinary way as if nothing had changed , nothing had happened . |
| 14 | When , after an hour , she heard him coming up the stairs she pulled the sheets tightly around her , and then relaxed . |
| 15 | When she heard him coming through she pulled the shower curtain more firmly shut and stretched her hand round the edge . |
| 16 | Fabia did not sleep well that night and , though Ven returned quietly in the early hours of Tuesday morning , she was awake , and heard him coming in . |
| 17 | Dick heard her coming , but did not move or speak . |
| 18 | Miss Merchiston went to the last door , thumped twice on it with her clenched fist as if by such violence she announced her coming , and threw it wide so that it bounced off the wall with a crash . |
| 19 | Corbett met him coming up the stairs . |
| 20 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 21 | We had an old inspector , a Manx man , he used to laugh when he saw them coming in with the blood pouring down their heads , fighting and everything . |
| 22 | She saw them coming , yet knew she could not intercept them in time . |
| 23 | So I said I went and lay in the in these bull rushes and I got half a brick , yes , he says , and I saw them coming and he says and I threw it and hit him this er blackleg with this half brick . |
| 24 | Sarah Fleming saw them coming through the window of the front room . |
| 25 | so we saw them , er saw them actually because we live in a flat , and we saw them coming from the station , er one , one Saturday morning |
| 26 | ‘ He seems pretty sure that the old man saw them coming . ’ |
| 27 | I heaped much obscene verbal abuse on various owners to the extent that several begin to leash in their ugly mutts when they saw me coming . |
| 28 | He ca n't have talked to them for long , as soon as he saw me coming he cleared off quick . |
| 29 | ‘ If I saw me coming into the dressing room I 'd have myself kicked out . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm frank and candid by nature and so perhaps not surprisingly my career was blocked , former friends learned to cross the street when they saw me coming and I quickly became a non-person ; a communist speciality . |