Example sentences of "came [adv prt] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Handlebar 's cock suddenly jumped into the air , flew the distance that separated it from its rival and came down on the darker bird with its neck arched and talons open . |
| 2 | Two czarist officers , bulky in their comic-opera uniforms , solemnly played Russian roulette , each downing a drink every time the firing pin of their revolver came down on an empty chamber . |
| 3 | I thought you said there 'd be no problem if I came in on a six-month permit ? ’ |
| 4 | Seve Ballesteros , who had shared the overnight lead on 67 , was making no further progress and was still five under par as he came in on the closing holes . |
| 5 | And then , at four-thirty when she was just contemplating going off shift , a call came in on the red phone that made her feel cold inside . |
| 6 | Her ancestors came over on the legendary vessel . |
| 7 | It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw . |
| 8 | Sal sent the sack up on a bight of slack , then came up on a tight rope and the sling . |
| 9 | There consul in Rome came up on an official visit and there was nearly a diplomatic incident when he got thrown out of the new university canteen he come to expect . |
| 10 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 11 | It were a bit charred by the lightning , but they plugged it in and music came out and the words to the music came up on the little television screen . ’ |
| 12 | Upon reaching retirement age Len found that he missed the job so much he came back on a part-time basis . |
| 13 | Last time round they went to south east Asia , trekked in Nepal as far as the Everest base camp , saw Thailand and China then came back on the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 14 | I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day . |
| 15 | They came back on the Northern Line , a tall handsome man in a long overcoat and a man whose face was mostly hidden by an upturned collar and a hat pulled well down . |
| 16 | When the Friar left the children beneath the tree he went hurriedly but surprisingly lightly for a man of his bulk through the bushes until he came out on a narrow path that twisted this way and that into a deep ravine both sides of which were dark with yews . |
| 17 | MH : Yes , we came out on a real high . |
| 18 | The words came out on a shaky laugh . |
| 19 | Suddenly the ground fell away before them and they came out on an open plateau with a floor of chequered marble , white on black , and a wide stone staircase with balustrades running down to the dried bed of an ornamental lake , which the mist turned to a bowl of milk . |
| 20 | When the trees broke , she came out on the uncut lawn of the heath . |
| 21 | But at last she came out on the other side and ran after them as before , calling out , " Hoo ! |
| 22 | I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ . |
| 23 | Hazel came out on the farther side of the ilexes and followed the path round a bend . |
| 24 | France , Germany and Italy came out on the sceptical side , with the UK , the Netherlands and North America on the other . |