Example sentences of "come [adv prt] on to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the soldiers had come up on to the cabin top . |
| 2 | We can never be a hundred per cent sure with security , we are , it is a public building , we do encourage er patients and their relatives to come up on to the children 's wards as part of the treatment er to make it a much more homely atmosphere . |
| 3 | In the less than half light Owen saw that Georgiades had come out on to the gallery . |
| 4 | Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own . |
| 5 | Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace . |
| 6 | Then my granny had to come out on to the verandah and interfere . |
| 7 | Also pensioners , there 's now more of an incentive for them to come back on to the labour market . |
| 8 | Later , when the Porter came out on to the platform , Peter asked about the white line . |
| 9 | All London came out on to the streets to watch when Essex and his men left for Ireland . |
| 10 | He came out on to the balcony with the bottle and sat down next to her . |
| 11 | The General rose from behind his enormous mahogany desk , without visibly gaining in stature , and came out on to the veranda to see us off . |
| 12 | The sound of the door opening and of voices as people came out on to the deck shocked her so much that she felt physically sick . |
| 13 | She came out on to the porch , lifting the lamp higher . |
| 14 | Mrs Pettifer came out on to the terrace with a tray , glasses and a big bottle of champagne . |
| 15 | The nearby door opened and two men came out on to the landing . |
| 16 | When she came out on to the landing , her grandmother called to her . |
| 17 | The extraordinary thing was , you could see them coming down on to the leaves as you passed and waving their heads around , sniffing , and when you were underneath they would just drop and go straight down your neck , or on to your ears , hundreds of them . |
| 18 | They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life . |
| 19 | Coming out on to the landing he was horrified to find Eleanor mounting the stairs , this time wearing a thick tweed trouser suit with a scarf wrapped round her throat , presumably as some sort of protection against the peasouper outside which he knew , to his cost , had already infiltrated his lodgings and was making him cough . |
| 20 | But why did he come out on to the moor ? |
| 21 | They come down on to the ground and immediately their wings break off close to the thorax . |
| 22 | ‘ Come out on to the balcony , ’ he said . |
| 23 | The air is still cool when he comes out on to the street , and the sunlight has that soft , early-morning freshness which makes even the cars and buses seem alert and hopeful . |