Example sentences of "came on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the men had to balance it up by , what they called chits , tha that came on every garment and how much er money they were getting for it . |
| 2 | This notable agreement between men who might be supposed to represent the opposite poles of economic ideology came on a day when Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov disclosed grim new evidence of wage inflation here , and Dr Alan Greenspan , the visiting chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board , wound up three days of discussions with Soviet ministers , bankers and economists . |
| 3 | Austin Farrer came on a visit to Lincoln and reported that Ramsey was a great man in the college and held his audiences spellbound and was less mad . |
| 4 | The rumours also came on a day when B&C reshuffled top management , with chief executive Peter Goldie moved sideways to concentrate on the disposal programme . |
| 5 | The end of phase one of Kylie Minogue 's unstoppable rise to world fame came on a sunny afternoon in June 1988 . |
| 6 | In 1899 Watson came on a second tour and this time went to the far west . |
| 7 | Marching on that night , suffering terribly from thirst , they came on a track that was not marked on their maps but was used by vehicles . |
| 8 | A few miles further down the road they came on a group of Italians with rifles waving at them to stop , obviously having been alerted by the German post . |
| 9 | Another , more startling , departure was the introduction of regular team talks , the idea for which came on a train travelling back from an away match . |
| 10 | In the autumn of 1890 Tiller was asked to present a quartet of children at the Prince of Wales Theatre , Liverpool , in the pantomime Robinson Crusoe , subtitled The Good Friday That Came On A Saturday . |
| 11 | He had one or two best pals after Bernard , but I never took to any of them ; and as he got older he never brought anybody with him when he came on a visit . |
| 12 | His father came on a visit to see him , and inevitably he was left feeling homesick . |
| 13 | Theo came on a visit , alarmed by the growing despondence of his brother 's letters . |
| 14 | Next morning they sighted U-593 and attacked her ; about midday they came on a fleet of French trawlers but were satisfied they carried no German radio operators . |
| 15 | The sit-down came on a day when Saints fans picked up on the ‘ Branfoot out ’ chants they began last season . |
| 16 | He had been locked in a cabin , a prisoner with the officers when the bombers came on a low-clouded November afternoon . |
| 17 | Recovering my composure , if not much dignity , I followed the bird through the trees and came on a female ( which lacks the long plumes and has a chestnut back and tail ) which appeared to be nest-building almost above our heads . |
| 18 | The Neath-born slow left-arm bowler is doing a sound job for Gloucestershire ; but Glamorgan have been left without a bowler of that kind , though ex-Kent spinner Mark Dobson came on a trial period . |
| 19 | My first acquaintance with Manzoku came on a bitter day during a New Year visit . |
| 20 | We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then . |
| 21 | Erm and so it was sort of going to the corner shop and buying what they could , er when they had the money , and sometimes they would borrow money from somebody whose benefit came on a different day . |
| 22 | Eileen and Joe both obtained a week 's leave for the wedding and Stephen came on a week 's holiday so all the family except Terry were together . |
| 23 | My rebellion came on a solid base of love , admiration and imitation which I had done when I was very young . ’ |
| 24 | The words came on a husky out-breath . |
| 25 | The news of Soeur Dosithée 's holy and resigned death came on a black-edged card in a black-edged envelope . |
| 26 | Bob Hendrie came on a substitute . |
| 27 | My attempts to look like a normal human being again were evidently not too successful — at one point in my journey , I came on a man crouching over a small brook from which he was trying to drink . |
| 28 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |
| 29 | ‘ How 's that ? ’ the girl asked , but then the phone rang and there was no time to worry because they were swinging into action with the RTA , two victims of a car smash who came on a blue light with sirens wailing . |
| 30 | It came on a day of positive signs for the British economy , with the Bank of England saying it thought inflation would remain below the Government 's target of 4 per cent for the next two years , and cautious indications of a pick-up in high street spending . |