Example sentences of "came [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death .
2 The Australian trainer came on with a bucket of water to try to revive the apparently comatose Fulton .
3 Mr Hay left out the experienced campaigners Karen Brown , Vickey Dixon and Jane Sixsmith from the starting line-up , though Sixsmith came on as a late substitute for Joanne Menown .
4 However , the Scots launched a spirited recovery in the second half against a very powerful side made up of former and future Wallaby internationals and , especially after David Sole came on as a replacement prop , they took complete control of the match , running in four excellent tries in an exciting 24–24 draw .
5 ‘ The moment I will never forget is our second goal in the Cup final against Manchester United when he came on as a substitute .
6 And Coppell may have to pair his £100,000 capture from non-League Sutton with another rookie , 18-year-old Grant Watts , who came on as a half-time substitute at QPR last Saturday .
7 Barnes , playing his first game since rupturing his Achilles tendon in the summer , came on as a substitute and set-up the 87th-minute winner for Ronnie Rosenthal in their 1–0 victory over QPR .
8 Dan Jackart , the other capped prop , went off with a damaged shoulder in the first half against North Harbour but came on as a replacement for Szabo .
9 If anyone have seen pictures from our game against Poland he came on as a substitute for Fjortoft as lone attacker — and he played brilliantly for the 20 minutes he was on .
10 McLoughlin giving Ireland the trip to the USA with his 1–1 equalizer vs Northern Ireland — he came on as a substitute — meaning that Ireland left Denmark at home — same points , same goal difference — but Ireland got more goals
11 He came on as a substitute against Monaghan in the provincial semi-final and played well , but a place in the final starting line-up still eluded him .
12 ‘ I think he also came on as a substitute in a first team friendly against the New Zealand national team .
13 ‘ I think he also came on as a substitute in a first-team friendly against the New Zealand national team .
14 ‘ Apart from his match-winning goal against Oxford United , I was pleased with his overall contribution when he came on as a second-half substitute .
15 Still they waited , as the Scots came on at a canter .
16 Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer .
17 England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills .
18 Mrs Margaret Johnson , a 32 year old housewife living in Sutton Coldfield , came on like a country western singer .
19 Then the door behind my head jerked open , the car light came on like a flashbulb , and there was a seven-foot black pimp snarling down at me with a mahogany baseball bat in his fist .
20 A dim light came on behind a blind in the Frankenstein mansion .
21 As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 .
22 ‘ The spider came down on a thread in front of me while I was driving .
23 A day or so later , I came down with a very nasty bout of influenza .
24 Too early to know , say officials , and anyway that question really has a different target : it was the press and Wall Street that got euphoric in the early days of war , and then came down with a bump , not the administration .
25 He came down with a First and started his civil service career in the humble surroundings of the National Assistance Board .
26 Nails went upstairs and after a long time came down with a pair of paint-spattered dungarees and two pairs of jeans belonging to his father who weighed about sixteen stone , two jerseys of Gary 's and a navy-blue suit of indeterminate ancestry .
27 ‘ Yesterday morning , Doctor Livesey came down with a white flag .
28 Laura came down with a handkerchief and wiped her son 's nose .
29 they came down with a lot o little bottles and they filled all them bottles up with the mud and they took 'em away and anal analyzed 'em and proved that it was erm human manure you see .
30 Beyond the curtains , the rain came down with a sudden clatter on the roof of the Ropewalk below .
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