Example sentences of "[pron] came on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My attempts to look like a normal human being again were evidently not too successful — at one point in my journey , I came on a man crouching over a small brook from which he was trying to drink . |
| 2 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |
| 3 | Aiming to cross into Austria at Gmünd , I came on the border post sooner than I had expected and , misreading the signs , drove past the guard-post to the frontier barrier . |
| 4 | As soon as I came on the pitch the Rovers defenders were trying to push me inside . |
| 5 | There was no time to contact him , so I came on the off-chance . |
| 6 | So I came on the Monday night to the Guild and it , it was n't long after , only a matter of weeks , before this lady erm she er came back home from Canada seeing to some other woman and er she just sat down and died . |
| 7 | He went on , ‘ Matt lived here alone for years before I came on the scene . |
| 8 | No , I was told before I came on the course , you 're going on the course to learn to make maximum use out of it , you 're not going on an almighty second holiday and |
| 9 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 10 | Another , more startling , departure was the introduction of regular team talks , the idea for which came on a train travelling back from an away match . |
| 11 | He waited until their faces reached a satisfactory degree of indignation then , over the next half hour , his low north-country voice spun out a story which revealed that political interests in the United States had channelled money through MacQuillan 's companies to enable him to acquire the Post ( or any other major British newspaper which came on the market and could be turned into a propaganda tool ) . |
| 12 | Where crops were sold both by large estates and small farmers or peasants , the situation was more complex , though in peasant economies , for obvious reasons , the proportion of the crop which came on the world market — i.e. which was not consumed by the producers — from large estates was normally much larger than that which came from the peasant holdings . |
| 13 | One obvious candidate to take over and operate these mines is RJB Mining , which came on the stock market this month and is valued at £100m . |
| 14 | ‘ How 's that ? ’ the girl asked , but then the phone rang and there was no time to worry because they were swinging into action with the RTA , two victims of a car smash who came on a blue light with sirens wailing . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I did not close her eyes , nor did anyone who came on the scene before you . ’ |
| 16 | The Eastern National , in 1929 , took over followed by United Counties who came on the local scene in June 1928 . |
| 17 | ‘ I was surprised that you came on the Mantela . ’ |
| 18 | And when you came on the scene , I started enjoying my winning even more . |
| 19 | ‘ Eleanor , my parents , quite a few of my friends — you never really made any effort to get along with the people who 'd been an important part of my life before you came on the scene . ’ |
| 20 | How many people in the room have been introduced to er , Managing your Practice , before you came on the induction course ? |
| 21 | Derek Thompson , who plays nurse Charlie , met his partner Dee Sadler when she came on the show to play an injured potholer . |
| 22 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 23 | I said ju , I said to him then she came on the phone I was o ages on the phone and she said er I said you just take it as if it 's a day off and |
| 24 | We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then . |
| 25 | Not knowing more than that , we had a long drive up the Conon before we came on the church — which is sited right below what we thereafter called ‘ The Conon Corbetts ’ . |
| 26 | Well before we came on the flats I would imagine they was . |
| 27 | ’ We came on the name through a retired CIA man in America ; let me put it that way . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 29 | ‘ In a cliff on the edge of the city , about 2,500ft up from the valley floor , we came on an old tomb , full of bones and ceramic pieces . |
| 30 | Marching on that night , suffering terribly from thirst , they came on a track that was not marked on their maps but was used by vehicles . |