Example sentences of "came [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Phillips heard the noise , and came slowly to the front of the schoolroom . |
| 2 | The light was almost gone when the white Mercedes came slowly along the road and turned into the open gate under the yew tree . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Rosemary , sounding quiet and subdued , came on to the phone . |
| 5 | It 's been a lot of hard work but I knew that it would be when I first came on to the Tour . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The newspaper reporters who came on to the scene contributed to the overspill of spite . |
| 9 | It was not a well-attended affair — perhaps fifteen people , mainly old women , at the church , few of whom came on to the cemetery . |
| 10 | After proper tribute had been paid to the heroic efforts of its singers and orchestra , the Royal Opera 's general director , Jeremy Isaacs , came on to the stage to make a special presentation to Sir Edward Downes . |
| 11 | When Christine came on to the stage , her face was white and she looked afraid . |
| 12 | We were feeling rather disgruntled at how many good films we 'd obviously missed when a man came on to the stage to read the nominations for one of the categories . |
| 13 | When Granby House came on to the market early in 1983 , it looked more promising . |
| 14 | His appetite whetted by this auction , he was a natural target for Sotheby 's when Irises came on to the market . |
| 15 | The movement continued to grow and develop and to absorb new media as they came on to the market . |
| 16 | Whole farms and landed estates at the edge of urban areas came on to the market ; suburban land prices therefore were very low . |
| 17 | So a number of theories of perception erm came on to the market as a response to the work of people like in the fifties and towards the end of the fifties we started to get theories of perception which were based on feature detectors . |
| 18 | A FURTHER tranche of fixed-rate mortgages came on to the market this week following last month 's cut in official base rates from 7 to 6 per cent . |
| 19 | People came on to the terrace . |
| 20 | Richard came on to the terrace . |
| 21 | We came on to the dirt road and a woman in a fluttering robe of pale pink organza walked towards us . |
| 22 | We also used to catch greenfinches that came on to the barley . |
| 23 | The Valencia trainer came on to the pitch and was ushered back towards the tunnel by Fernando Giner , a home defender . |
| 24 | His point was that the yobs who came on to the pitch did so from the comfort of a new , multi-million pound stand . |
| 25 | Kenny Wilson moved up and Henry Edwards came on to the flank and the disruptions partially explained why Boroughmuir were unable to generate forward momentum . |
| 26 | He turned as McKenzie came on to the bridge : ‘ And how are our oil-stained survivors , Chief ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He said my husband always came on to the site wearing dark glasses , ’ Jean says . |
| 28 | The star of a series of previous horror classics — the poll tax , water privatisation — came on to the despatch box at just before three in the afternoon . |
| 29 | We did have an argument that afternoon ; he came on to the set clearly hungover — he had been drinking heavily the day before , disrupting things , disturbing the atmosphere . |
| 30 | There was a moment 's silence and then another voice , deep and strong and commanding , came on to the line . |