Example sentences of "[noun sg] come [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legend held that once a year an angel came to dance on the highest peak . |
| 2 | Her gaze came to rest on the inscription at the top of the page . |
| 3 | The beam came to rest on the Ngo brothers , and after a moment 's hesitation Duclos bent down and seized Hoc by the arm . |
| 4 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 5 | Her eyes closed tight shut , and her forehead came to rest on the hands that gripped the bedpost . |
| 6 | Paige sat down and opened the atlas , flicking over the pages until finally her finger came to rest on the country of Costa Rica . |
| 7 | All talk of a referendum had been dropped by the time the Supreme Soviet came to vote on the programme . |
| 8 | When he eventually became an overnight star after fourteen years of hard labour in Hollywood , the seekers of his past came knocking on the doors of his tutors and former friends . |
| 9 | A robin came to perch on the trellis , only an arm 's distance away . |
| 10 | This study highlighted a number of problems that family farmers faced when a member of the family came to work on the farm so perhaps it was an opportune time to look at this in more detail . |