Example sentences of "came [adv prt] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The spider came down on a thread in front of me while I was driving . |
| 2 | The sail came down on the run . |
| 3 | His chump hand came down on the desk , giving her a point of focus . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The biggest excitement of the war for us happened when an aeroplane came down on the hill above Clove Lodge , which is just across the valley from Low Birk Hatt . |
| 7 | They finally came down on the side of 36-year-old Anne Bancroft , although she had seldom played comedy , having made her name in such powerful dramas as The Miracle Worker and The Pumpkin Eater . |
| 8 | Having contemplated the pro 's and con 's Darwin came down on the side in favour of marriage . |
| 9 | There 's that side of things , and I hope that that is changing , alas again too slowly erm I think the Taylor report , which firmly came down on the side of more lay control of schools by parents and members of the community , put up and unanswerable case . |
| 10 | ‘ A young man came along on a bicycle and asked me if he could help but I refused his offer . |
| 11 | The newcomer came in on a gust of the storm . |
| 12 | He came in on a boat , I suppose , and he plopped himself down and began making ukuleles , very good ones , and some fabulous guitars which are quite rare nowadays . |
| 13 | And Daniel came in on a hospital trolley disguised as a sleigh with scarlet blankets and silver-paper runners , drawn by hospital porters dressed as polar bears . |
| 14 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 15 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 16 | So , as Jonathan Miller put it , ‘ man came in on the back of the machine ’ . |
| 17 | David McIvor came in on the blind-side and Ian Smith was called up when Graham Marshall injured his knee . |
| 18 | He came in on the Tube as usual , and walked the last quarter-mile . |
| 19 | Kenny Logan switched from wing to fullback and Tony Stanger came in on the wing . |
| 20 | ‘ Came in on the morning commercial flight at dawn . |
| 21 | After a few months of doing this several times each day and night , most of us could plot at the same speed as the information came in on the teleprinter . |
| 22 | Then , just when she was feeling really at ease with him , he stepped back a pace , came in on the tail-end of her report on the new extra-calorie meal schedule they were working on , and undermined her equilibrium totally with the words , ‘ I like the way the dappled light is playing on your hair . |
| 23 | Blevins Barricune , the ex-Op Duroc had put in charge of the city limits , came through on the intercom . |
| 24 | Late one evening in 1974 , not long after Wilson 's second election victory , I was at my home in Portland Place when Haines came through on the telephone with a request for some urgent action . |
| 25 | Between them , the Quakers and the Christian Council looked after about twenty per cent of those who came over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 26 | ‘ It was about 8.30am and I was just getting dressed when it came over on the news , ’ said Mr Tyson , a former clerk of works at Harrow council , London . |
| 27 | Two , two or three week 's running Jenny came up on a weekend and brought us a bar of chocolate each |
| 28 | He paused as the first hospital direction sign came up on the road . |
| 29 | After nearly an hour and a half at sea in gale force winds Falmouth lifeboat , under the command of Second Coxswain Alan Barnes , came up on the yacht , a 40ft steel ketch , which was drifting two and a half miles south west of The Lizard Light . |
| 30 | It came up on the wall like that and had a big wooden block fastened to the wall that block |