Example sentences of "come [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If they want to come along on the day and enjoy themselves , that 's fine ; we 're even providing a bouncy castle , so children can bounce for the rainforests at the Banbury walk .
2 A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work .
3 Well you 'll have to come in on the way ho
4 The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge !
5 They had actually chosen themselves to come in on the study and so they were obviously schools which were particularly interested in involving parents as much as they could , and erm they would all certainly have done as , probably as much as most schools in the country are doing as , as far as involving parents are concerned , both in having parent helpers in the classrooms , and in having organisations for parents and social events for parents of the , of the fundraising type .
6 This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again .
7 Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader .
8 During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet .
9 Now there was some dispute over whether Berlin or Bonn should be the capital , they 've come down on the side of Berlin , but is that dispute settled now ?
10 Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her .
11 It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison !
12 The Late Show , challenged by David Hare to decide whether Keats was more important than Dylan , now seems inclined to come down on the side of Keats .
13 But we had to choose , early on , which side we belonged to , and children have to come down on the side that brings the food home and gets it on the table .
14 Pancevski himself appeared to come down on the side of the Serbian position by stressing repeatedly that political pluralism " must be based on socialist orientation and the federal structure " and asserting : " The LCY finds unacceptable the thesis according to which the essence and form of political pluralism are reduced to a classic multiparty system alone . "
15 We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not .
16 Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte .
17 Members of the committee will see that savings continue to come through on the school meals service and this is to a very considerable extent , the result that the ethos of the previous Conversative administration which ran a tight ship and positively encourage deficiency .
18 Right if you have a look at what has come up on the screen , on the screen .
19 It 's not something the average student would expect to come up on the sylabus and Katharine 's still recovering from the shock .
20 Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men .
21 If I could go back I think I would have come out on the Tour three years later . ’
22 Er I wanted to come back on the question of regeneration and the opportunities in Leeds .
23 ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene , but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’
24 ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’
25 The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris .
26 Mr , do you want to come back on the point made on the other side of the room about your arbitrary selection of building rates ?
27 The sail came down on the run .
28 His chump hand came down on the desk , giving her a point of focus .
29 P.O. ( A ) Jopling and his TAG , L/A Glen , were in the Skua ( L3007 ) , they and the Fulmar firing from long range but only achieving a single hit on the dorsal turret , but both then closed in and after further firing the much-damaged floatplane came down on the sea , the engineer breaking an arm during the crash-landing .
30 As it flopped its way forward , the vulnerable underside came down on the ring just as the mini-grenade in the stone erupted into satisfying flame .
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