Example sentences of "come on [prep] a [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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Hay left out the experienced campaigners Karen Brown , Vickey Dixon and Jane Sixsmith from the starting line-up , though Sixsmith came on as a late substitute for Joanne Menown . |
| 5 | England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills . |
| 6 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 7 | Right at the end Inst coach Denis Guiler , forced into coming on as a 50th minute substitute so depleted were his side 's ranks , almost stole the headlines with the winner , but his effort was brilliantly saved by goalkeeper Raymond Geddis . |
| 8 | Er a number of and there 's a further example which I have written to the County Senior Safety Officer about er where there is a halt pedestrians coming on to a main road where a number of vehicles er bounce the pavements to get round traffic turning right at the junction . |
| 9 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 10 | We can consider reasonably clear cut examples of the use of local landmarks and of home stimuli , but when we come on to a possible map sense we shall move into one of the more unsettled areas of the science . |
| 11 | Jettisoning Shakespeare , and talking in a ludicrous mixture of Italian and heavily accented English , he comes on as a hilarious parody of a libidinous Latin , pinching handbags from the audience , flogging dodgy cassette tapes and offering healing laughter after all the grief of the earlier acts . |
| 12 | He comes on like a Greek god and claims credit for fixing the weather . |