Example sentences of "to come on [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 2 | The exchange rate mechanism works as follows : ( a ) a rise in money supply causes interest rates to fall ; ( b ) the rise in money supply plus the fall in interest rates causes an increased supply of domestic currency to come on to the foreign exchange market ; this causes the exchange rate to fall ; ( c ) this will cause increased exports and reduced imports , and hence a multiplied rise in national income . |
| 3 | ERA is one of more than 50 new ales to come on to the Scottish market in the past year . |
| 4 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 5 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |