Example sentences of "came [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Heliopsis snatched a dramatic late verdict under George Duffield in the Tennents Special Handicap as the curtain came down on the 1992 Scottish Flat racing programme . |
2 | Then Handlebar 's cock suddenly jumped into the air , flew the distance that separated it from its rival and came down on the darker bird with its neck arched and talons open . |
3 | Seve Ballesteros , who had shared the overnight lead on 67 , was making no further progress and was still five under par as he came in on the closing holes . |
4 | And then , at four-thirty when she was just contemplating going off shift , a call came in on the red phone that made her feel cold inside . |
5 | Her ancestors came over on the legendary vessel . |
6 | It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw . |
7 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
8 | It were a bit charred by the lightning , but they plugged it in and music came out and the words to the music came up on the little television screen . ’ |
9 | Last time round they went to south east Asia , trekked in Nepal as far as the Everest base camp , saw Thailand and China then came back on the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
10 | I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day . |
11 | Er mainly the proposal and then everybody came back on the sixth which is quite a long break in Christmas but we do need that break till we organize ourselves after Christmas |
12 | Well erm he came back on the twenty fourth , no , never mind that we we 've been to-ing and fro-ing have Asian Associates and I and |
13 | They came back on the Northern Line , a tall handsome man in a long overcoat and a man whose face was mostly hidden by an upturned collar and a hat pulled well down . |
14 | When the trees broke , she came out on the uncut lawn of the heath . |
15 | But at last she came out on the other side and ran after them as before , calling out , " Hoo ! |
16 | I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ . |
17 | Hazel came out on the farther side of the ilexes and followed the path round a bend . |
18 | As they rounded the hump and came out on the broad , gentler seaward slope they saw a uniformed policeman standing on the cliff edge , and when they joined him he pointed to the rocky shore below . |
19 | France , Germany and Italy came out on the sceptical side , with the UK , the Netherlands and North America on the other . |