Example sentences of "came [adv prt] on the [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 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 .
3 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 .
4 Her ancestors came over on the legendary vessel .
5 It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw .
6 He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers .
7 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day .
10 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 .
11 When the trees broke , she came out on the uncut lawn of the heath .
12 But at last she came out on the other side and ran after them as before , calling out , " Hoo !
13 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 ’ .
14 Hazel came out on the farther side of the ilexes and followed the path round a bend .
15 France , Germany and Italy came out on the sceptical side , with the UK , the Netherlands and North America on the other .
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