Example sentences of "[noun] came on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Therese came on the entire evening lifted into top gear . |
| 2 | The allegation came on the third day of an insurance fraud trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 3 | The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas . |
| 4 | When I was fifteen I was sitting at home and my dad was crashed out in the chair , my dad 's a Fords worker , and the Miss World beauty contest came on the television and I just felt really overwhelmed by this vision . |
| 5 | There was a brief pause , before Emmet came on the line . |
| 6 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 7 | One day , for instance , a female journalist came on the set to interview Brynner who proceeded to make her look pretty stupid in front of everybody on the set . |
| 8 | Then Guthrie came on the scene and there followed thirteen years of hassle , restructuring and losses . ’ |
| 9 | The astonishing show of support came on the day it was revealed that tapes of an intimate phone call between Di and a male friend are almost certainly genuine . |
| 10 | The unexpected support came on the day miners ' unions , after receiving assurances , agreed to call off a High Court bid to force British Coal to re-open and work 10 pits earmarked for early closure . |
| 11 | A more recent example of cross-Atlantic friction came on the set of Sunset ( 1989 ) between Bruce Willis and Malcolm McDowell . |
| 12 | The admission came on the eve of a visit to Katyn by Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski . |
| 13 | Within thirty seconds Van came on the line . |
| 14 | In Gabon halofantrine came on the market three years ago and has since been widely used . |
| 15 | ‘ When the actual case came on the judge said some harsh things about the wife . |
| 16 | A favourite quote was from County Securities : ‘ We got to the stage in our institutional room where headhunters came on the phone so often we put them over the loudhailer because it was such a huge joke . ’ |
| 17 | No doubt when the subsidy commissioners came on the scene they were prevailed on to restore assessments to approximately the levels of 1515 . |
| 18 | My finest hour of the campaign came on the night the Conservatives broadcast Labour HQ 's phone number . |
| 19 | The only blot on an otherwise clean campaign came on the eve of the poll when the communist newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya published a report implying that Yeltsin had been involved in an illegal deal to sell billions of roubles at a cheap rate to a British company . |
| 20 | The bills came on the morning of the burial , and he suddenly drew them from his pocket during the service , opening them without knowing what he was doing . |
| 21 | ‘ Just before you arrived a bloke came on the phone and said he had read my article this morning . |
| 22 | When Peace came on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month , the citizens of Glasgow at home and abroad were elated , relieved , delighted , and very , very tired … |
| 23 | Footsteps came on the gangway . |
| 24 | The letter from Lily came on the morning of the funeral . |
| 25 | Yesterday 's accident came on the day The Northern Echo featured the growing dangers on the road which links County Durham and Cumbria . |
| 26 | The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub . |
| 27 | Stock boats came on the first day , they start coming away in May . |
| 28 | The announcement came on the first day of a planned four-day general strike called by the Confederation of Trade Unions ( CTU ) to protest at the country 's perilous economic situation [ see p. 38836 ] . |
| 29 | The move came on the eve of informal peace talks in Utrecht , the Netherlands , between representatives of the government , led by Eric Singson , and a CPP delegation led by Jose Maria Sison . |
| 30 | It and its contents came on the market after the decision by the recently resigned Secretary of State for National Heritage David Mellor who went against the advice and the efforts of the National Trust , English Heritage , and the National Heritage Memorial Fund . |