Example sentences of "[pers pn] come on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on , ‘ Matt lived here alone for years before I came on the scene . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As soon as I came on the pitch the Rovers defenders were trying to push me inside . |
| 7 | There was no time to contact him , so I came on the off-chance . |
| 8 | I come on the bike and I ca n't have it . |
| 9 | Maybe , the Mountie said , but if she was as upset as all that , why had she come on the train at all ? |
| 10 | And when you came on the scene , I started enjoying my winning even more . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I was surprised that you came on the Mantela . ’ |
| 13 | How many people in the room have been introduced to er , Managing your Practice , before you came on the induction course ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Derek Thompson , who plays nurse Charlie , met his partner Dee Sadler when she came on the show to play an injured potholer . |
| 17 | ‘ Rachel , will you come on the roundabout with me ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Rachel , will you come on the dodgems with me ? ’ |
| 19 | His idea was that if you come on the scene and there was a right old set-to , you wanted to be as fit as you can to get into the set-to . |
| 20 | And quite honestly you need it when you come on the course . |
| 21 | Can you come on the neo have you come on the insurance ? |
| 22 | Your such a lazy so-and-so you come on the bicycles . |
| 23 | Well I maybe in a couple of weeks we might but I mean we like to keep it going and then because when it 's when you come on the show you 'd be such a be such a terrific let down |
| 24 | Well before we came on the flats I would imagine they was . |
| 25 | ’ We came on the name through a retired CIA man in America ; let me put it that way . ’ |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ I did not want things that Picasso gave Douglas and me coming on the market , and Billy very decently gave me the drawing ’ . |
| 28 | Now we 're on the road , er , let's see what other goodies we 've got over here going on , oh , yes , we 're checking out how well people are being briefed before they came on the course . |
| 29 | A mere allegation that the goods are his , without any attempt to show how they came on the premises , will not do , for ‘ to allow such a statement to be a justification for entering the soil of another , would be opening too wide a door to parties to attempt righting themselves without resorting to law , and would necessarily tend to breach of the peace . ’ |
| 30 | They came on the scene when the private telegraph companies were ‘ nationalised ’ and integrated into the Post Office , the women literally being taken on as a ‘ job lot ’ with their male colleagues . |