Example sentences of "[noun pl] come [adv prt] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nails took such a proposition in his stride , unworried ; Jazz , although slightly apprehensive , was keen because swimming was the discipline he most enjoyed and was making the best progress in ; only Hoomey 's eyes came out on stalks at the presumption . |
| 2 | Princess Diana gave birth to a son and things looked like fast returning to normal in Britain as nurses came out on strike , the London tube drivers came out on strike and the NUR threatened a strike . |
| 3 | Even the loan of his father 's rod had n't helped him to catch anything , although his father had caught two trout whose scales came off on Stuart 's hands and gleamed silver in the soft light . |
| 4 | A tow to the SS Reina Del Pacifico was followed by a wash in the Chief Petty Officers ' quarters , interrupted by two hits on the ship from a French battery , and when the canoeists came back on deck they found the canoe had been stripped by souvenir hunters , who now began asking for autographs . |
| 5 | That 's right , we 'll be waiting , as we did with the planning applications to come in on hospital . |
| 6 | Regular stars of the contest , Alan Crossthwaite and Tony Dance , both fought hard in the singles final , but it was Alan who was able to draw on the experience of his many double successes to come out on top . |
| 7 | But there was a big loss of life as well , but what frightened me was this Germans coming over on Peedie bits of rafts and the men swimming in the sea and whatnot |
| 8 | Kuwait , with a capacity of 2,000,000 bpd before the Iraqi occupation and subsequent fire damage , was thought to be producing only about 500,000 bpd , but planned to increase its output to 900,000 bpd by June 1992 and to 1,500,000 bpd by the end of the year as most of its fire-damaged wells came back on stream . |
| 9 | Hodai came up on Burun 's other side . |
| 10 | COHSE members coming out on strike because of their refusal to take a little boy into the theatre for an operation , pin-ups being removed from the Yorkshire miners ' newspaper , painkillers being laced with poison in the US , John Nott walking out on Robin Day in front of the TV cameras , Helmut Kohl taking over from ( crash ) Helmut Schmidt and public service pay rises being kept down to 3 ½ per cent , every single event being , in some eyes , a disaster . |
| 11 | second time around , by chance or otherwise , as animals further evolved to repopulate the Earth , the mammals came out on top ( although a case can be made that it was really the insects that came out on top ! ) |
| 12 | They the da the harbour master 's men at the lock gates came out on strike . |
| 13 | The two men came back on Sunday night . |
| 14 | And a fellow officer was given a bloody nose when he refused to get out of bed and watch the results coming in on TV , it was alleged . |
| 15 | University lecturers come out on strike |
| 16 | And the communications specialists came out on top — by just seven points — 55-47 . |
| 17 | Princess Diana gave birth to a son and things looked like fast returning to normal in Britain as nurses came out on strike , the London tube drivers came out on strike and the NUR threatened a strike . |
| 18 | ‘ Then two older boys came along on bikes and one of them went off to get help . ’ |
| 19 | It 's got nice flowing aspects today and Sunday , and these rather tense ones coming up on Saturday , so that 's why it is . |
| 20 | There were bitter struggles in the courts on the right to strike and the power of trade unions , which led to the creation of the Labour Party , with fearful signs of a new and radical anger among the working class through and beyond the strike-bound year of 1911 when even schoolchildren came out on strike in some districts , ‘ for shorter hours and no stick ’ . |
| 21 | Even though the overall union target had been cut back from £4.7 million to £2 million , only four unions came in on target : NALGO with £250,000 ; the National Union of Seamen and Fire Brigades Union with £50,000 each ; the fourth was the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers , led by the vociferously right-wing Gavin Laird . |