Example sentences of "[noun sg] came on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The allegation came on the third day of an insurance fraud trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 2 | The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A more recent example of cross-Atlantic friction came on the set of Sunset ( 1989 ) between Bruce Willis and Malcolm McDowell . |
| 8 | The admission came on the eve of a visit to Katyn by Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski . |
| 9 | In Gabon halofantrine came on the market three years ago and has since been widely used . |
| 10 | ‘ When the actual case came on the judge said some harsh things about the wife . |
| 11 | My finest hour of the campaign came on the night the Conservatives broadcast Labour HQ 's phone number . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Just before you arrived a bloke came on the phone and said he had read my article this morning . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | Yesterday 's accident came on the day The Northern Echo featured the growing dangers on the road which links County Durham and Cumbria . |
| 16 | The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The only goal of the match came on the stroke of half-time from 18-year-old Gary Rowett . |
| 20 | And suddenly director John Mead came on the line from Cardiff . |
| 21 | Grimsby 's best opening came on the half-hour , when Paul Groves put Mendonca in behind keeper Ludo Miklosko . |
| 22 | She began to unpack , trying to puzzle things out , and when a knock came on the door she opened it without thinking , her mind still elsewhere . |
| 23 | She was just slipping her feet into a pair of low black court shoes when the knock came on the door , and her heart leapt into her throat . |
| 24 | Ironically , David Guest 's victory came on the day that television cameras were allowed for the first time to record proceedings in a Scottish court . |
| 25 | The news came on the day another record-breaker , Harry Taylor , 33 , returned home after he became the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without the aid of oxygen . |
| 26 | I had just time to pull on a clean shirt and a pair of Chinos — Springsteen 's favourites as they show up his black hairs to best effect — before the local news came on the TV . |
| 27 | The news came on the same day that the car makers Rover announced another year of losses . |
| 28 | The Swede , playing in the penultimate group , finished his round just as Spanish television came on the air and the situation embarrassed tournament director David Probyn . |
| 29 | The first signs of rust came on the day the first battalion of the tartan army arrived in Cordoba . |
| 30 | Charles Laubscher , who remembers : ‘ We were flying across the southern end of the island when Control came on the air with the warning that two bogeys were in our area . |