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

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1 The Scottish pressure on ball won by the Welsh was superb and this really indicated how far they have come on since the match against the Italians .
2 Take that form literally and there is only one winner on Saturday as Bonanza Boy is bound to have come on for the outing .
3 Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting .
4 Quick Reaction finished well clear of Bigsun at High Easter , but the latter will have come on for the race , while Shimshek bypassed Ascot on Wednesday and must have every chance here .
5 With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game .
6 That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down .
7 ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said .
8 At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed .
9 Demand is so high that there is bound to be plenty of interest in two new properties in need of some tender loving care which have just come on to the market .
10 Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it .
11 We must study the gap closely and we must realise that , in many of the homes that have come on to the market , on which there has been significant capital outlay by people moving into the private sector , the costs have escalated because of the massive increase in interest rates .
12 I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ?
13 Lights had come on beyond the doorway .
14 But I mean we also , we , I mean we 're providing a service for them to allow them to come on off the street , use the bus , right , but at the same time were trying to provide services for them because one of the things that came out in a consultation was , young people did n't feel that there was enough information for them in the town .
15 But I 'm thinking , I 'm think I 've got this terrible feeling I 'd have to come on with the princess , if we 've just got married
16 The night shift volunteer was standing next to me getting ready to come on to the phones and as I came off a call he started to chat to me .
17 You know people who 's coming in from o the outside to come on to the flats , they 're the people at risk .
18 The decision whether or not to come on to the Tour is not an easy one for a young black pro to take .
19 Amid mounting chaos , Iliescu issued a radio appeal to factory workers and others to come on to the streets to defend the revolution .
20 As part of the deal Mr de Ferranti agreed to stand down in favour of Sir Derek and to allow James Guerin , International Signal 's founder , to come on to the board as deputy chairman .
21 So presenting the centre line and okay we 're going to come on to the eye contact as well in a moment , presenting the centre line with eye contact means that it feels much more positive for the audience in terms of the delivery .
22 Were any undesirables as it were , to come on to the ward , I 'm sure they would be picked up almost immediately .
23 Obviously we 're trying to make a homely atmosphere so that parents can come and go , er when new parents come on to the ward , when new patients come on to the ward , nursing staff maintain a , a close control and a close liaison with them , so were any undesirables as it were , to come on to the ward , I am sure they would be picked up almost immediately .
24 Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange .
25 There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages .
26 Mark discharged himself , came on to the film set and proceeded to tell me what I could do with the part , the film and the clinic . ’
27 Rosemary , sounding quiet and subdued , came on to the phone .
28 It 's been a lot of hard work but I knew that it would be when I first came on to the Tour .
29 Then came the era of the Brat Pack , a bunch of young Hollywood actors who came on to the scene thinking they were God 's gift to the cinema — and some of them were .
30 Ted Willoughby , who had looked after Sugar throughout its service with 467 Squadron , came on to the scene and offered to try and find the missing items and then re-fit them to the aircraft , to which Jack Bruce readily agreed .
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