Example sentences of "[noun pl] come [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Then , as we neared the entrance , a ship came up astern , and she can only have been one of Everard 's sailing barges coming up on the tide . |
2 | Now , all of those criticisms come about on the work that 's been done which has mostly been done on the recognition of characters and letters . |
3 | the colours come up on the bottom again . |
4 | Perhaps only three or four keys on the typewriter keyboard that the computer will have need to be pressed at all , and if a child presses the wrong one it does n't all stop and funny , you know , impersonal messages come up on the screen saying he 's done something wrong , it just ignores them and waits for one of the correct responses . |
5 | Some changes came about on the death of Henry VIII , when the General Surveyors were absorbed into Augmentations , but it was apparent that more drastic reforms were needed . |
6 | There was still the warehouse on his left , and a derelict site beyond that , with occupied flats coming up on the right … |
7 | On election nights members of the locality would collect in a state of great excitement to hear the results coming in on the station telegraph . |
8 | Men and women came out on the dock to watch as the great brown sails went up , with only a six-year-old boy at the winch , and the Grace , bound for Ushant , smelt the open sea . |