Example sentences of "come on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to have come on the retreat more out of material loyalty than religious devotion . |
| 2 | Since then 172 firms have come on the register from which businesses without a solicitor can be referred . |
| 3 | Well it would n't made any difference cos we would have come on the Sunday anyway . |
| 4 | You may have been sat in the Wendover if you 've come on the Sunday , but even having breakfast I bet you were going , what time do you think we ought to leave . |
| 5 | That is where the plugger and press officer come on the scene . |
| 6 | Etty with her friend Dolly Murchie , had come on the scene . |
| 7 | When he had come on the scene about fifteen years earlier he had been a spectacular hitter of a golf ball and a brilliant putter : a fearsome blend of talents in a golfer — if they combine regularly . |
| 8 | Two of the hotel functionaries had come on the scene . |
| 9 | Technology has come on the scene to help firms with all of these practice management needs and , most recently , integrated practice management systems have evolved to provide the solution to all the information problems of the busy practice . |
| 10 | She was in no hurry , and had made no plans to meet Rosie , since Francisco had come on the scene . |
| 11 | You know as the result of a fire the , the amount of money and goods that er are destroyed in the fire erm chemicals erm have come on the scene which bring with it their own particular dangers and risks from fire and from erm from the toxic effects of chemicals and the endanger to the environment . |
| 12 | ‘ When I saw him , but he must 've come on the bus it 'd stop at the turn an' 't was about the time . |
| 13 | Yet he has seen only two other houses in the creek come on the market in the last 12 years . |
| 14 | A number of phased retirement schemes have come on the market to enable people to stagger the purchase of their annuities under their pension arrangements . |
| 15 | Perhaps , he said , the hijackers had come on the train . |
| 16 | Maybe , the Mountie said , but if she was as upset as all that , why had she come on the train at all ? |
| 17 | Any science teacher to apply to come on the course . |
| 18 | Prof Eno took us round to see Morrissey , because he lives nearby in Oscar Wilde 's old cottage and he was too ‘ ill ’ to come on the outing . |
| 19 | ‘ As I was about to come on the ref told me , ‘ I 'll be watching you closely . |
| 20 | And when you got into any gas , a blue flame used to come on the top of your lamp pop , gone . |
| 21 | Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm just about to come on the South Wales police but I will answer the point directly , er I and my honourable friend the parliamentary secretary are always willing to discuss with local government , matters relating to local government finance and we have done so over the months leading up to this settlement and my honourable and right honourable friends in the Home Office are always willing to discuss matters on the police er where they are important and warrant a ministerial meeting and that again has happened recently with the Home Office min minister discussing this very issue . |
| 22 | But Scheherezade arranges for her younger sister , Dinarzade , to come on the pretext of bidding her farewell , and ask her to ‘ relate to us a story to beguile the waking hours of our night ’ . |
| 23 | Leigh says : ‘ I honestly thought I was going to be on my own for at least a decade but I did n't know the Twiglet was going to come on the scene . |
| 24 | ‘ Why did you have to come on the scene , meddling ? |
| 25 | Mm broccoli does n't want to come on the fork . |
| 26 | A NEW material that could replace asbestos , silica or ceramic fibre based products is about to come on the market . |
| 27 | The thing is , they 're likely to come on the market quite soon . |
| 28 | We tried very hard to underline the importance of these paintings , so that if they were ever to come on the market the government would be conditioned to their importance . |
| 29 | Sotheby 's open the Impressionist season with Matisse 's ‘ Fatma , la mulatresse ’ painted in 1912 and one of the few pictures of this period likely to come on the market . |
| 30 | Several systems of computer enhancement and image analysis which can be used with a petrographic microscope are beginning to come on the market and promise relative ease of modal composition evaluation . |