Example sentences of "[noun] come on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Australian trainer came on with a bucket of water to try to revive the apparently comatose Fulton .
2 The Valencia trainer came on to the pitch and was ushered back towards the tunnel by Fernando Giner , a home defender .
3 Still they waited , as the Scots came on at a canter .
4 Richard came on to the terrace .
5 Speed came on towards the end , but did n't have chance to make much of an impact .
6 However , the Scots launched a spirited recovery in the second half against a very powerful side made up of former and future Wallaby internationals and , especially after David Sole came on as a replacement prop , they took complete control of the match , running in four excellent tries in an exciting 24–24 draw .
7 A dim light came on behind a blind in the Frankenstein mansion .
8 Then the door behind my head jerked open , the car light came on like a flashbulb , and there was a seven-foot black pimp snarling down at me with a mahogany baseball bat in his fist .
9 If you were in a wine bar with ferns , mellowed out on red wine and having a really sloppy kissy kissy lovey dovey ooghy woogy dinner with your lover and Blueboy came on as the cabaret , you would go berserk and slash open their gizzards with the cake fork .
10 He smiled broadly and he turned from her , munching at the buttered scone , and as he walked out of the back door he heard the sound of a car coming on to the gravel in front of the house .
11 But the variable of interest may of course genuinely swing around abruptly ; the monthly count of unemployed people rises very sharply when school-leavers come on to the register , for example .
12 The counter-argument is that seasonal adjustment will itself take care of much of the distortion ( as it will eliminate the predictable seasonal rise in unemployment in July and August when school-leavers come on to the register ) .
13 His appetite whetted by this auction , he was a natural target for Sotheby 's when Irises came on to the market .
14 Whole farms and landed estates at the edge of urban areas came on to the market ; suburban land prices therefore were very low .
15 Obviously we 're trying to make a homely atmosphere so that parents can come and go , er when new parents come on to the ward , when new patients come on to the ward , nursing staff maintain a , a close control and a close liaison with them , so were any undesirables as it were , to come on to the ward , I am sure they would be picked up almost immediately .
16 The hit comes on in a rush .
17 At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ?
18 You know people who 's coming in from o the outside to come on to the flats , they 're the people at risk .
19 Thousands of ethnic Serbs came on to the streets in their support .
20 He turned as McKenzie came on to the bridge : ‘ And how are our oil-stained survivors , Chief ? ’
21 This will mean £20bn-worth of sterling coming on to the market to buy foreign currency .
22 THE creation of a spot market for industrial gas to help cope with the volumes coming on to the market as a result of the reduction in the British Gas business has been raised by the Office of Fair Trading .
23 So she sat there for about 'arf an 'our , listenin' to the singin' and so forth , and then , just as she was beginnin' to get a bit bored , this Billy Graham comes on to the platform .
24 The trespasser comes on to the premises at his own risk .
25 He switched on the refrigeration unit , and as it shivered into life the counter lights came on under the glass .
26 A few lights came on in the villages .
27 Lights came on in the Mootwalk shops as one by one they began to open .
28 Suddenly , all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in .
29 Jazz switched the television off and came outside with them and they kicked a tin-can round the field a bit and then sat on some dumped oil-drums and watched the lights come on along the front and smoked a cigarette and reflected on their fate .
30 There would be a dramatic increase in the volume of good quality country houses coming on to the market in May , June and July , predicted Mr Andrew Hay of Knight Frank and Rutley .
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