Example sentences of "coming on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the only occasion when I personally remember seeing a wicketkeeper coming on to bowl and it may be the earliest such occasion in a first-class game . |
| 2 | The usurper 's army had indeed proceeded on down Annandale , almost certainly to link up with another large Galloway force collected by Sir Walter Comyn and Henry Balliol , Edward 's brother , from their estates in that province , many thousands strong , the reason why Sir Archibald had not risked coming on to Edinburgh . |
| 3 | The main aim of this study is to investigate the way young people coming on to labour market in Northern ireland for the first time cope with stress of unemployment and in particular to investigate factors that might moderate any negative impact unemployment may have , such as participation in the Youth training programme . |
| 4 | Kids ' stuff : Kevin Thomas , Hearts ' 17-year-old debutant , acclaims his goal , scored minutes after coming on at Tynecastle on Saturday . |
| 5 | For complaints coming on after overexertion or over lifting . |
| 6 | If the daemon that fired Karen had invaded Alison 's body , locking its carapace to her face and swarming down her throat like some nifty parasitic alien , it would have had her coming on like Mae West in no time at all . |
| 7 | Following the news that the IBM Corp and Apple Computer Inc PowerPC RISC effort is coming on in leaps and bounds ( UX No 384 ) , rumours floated on the airwaves last week that the first boxes built around the architecture will be out by the end of this year . |
| 8 | The evening shadows were lengthening , one or two lights were coming on in buildings across the city and the dark mass of the cathedral stood out sharply against the soft viridian sky . |
| 9 | People knocking on doors , people hiding behind things , people coming on in costume . |
| 10 | Tina Dicks , whose son Thomas , aged six , attends the school , said : ‘ My little boy is extremely happy there and is coming on by leaps and bounds . |