Example sentences of "came on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first signs of rust came on the day the first battalion of the tartan army arrived in Cordoba . |
| 2 | The astonishing show of support came on the day it was revealed that tapes of an intimate phone call between Di and a male friend are almost certainly genuine . |
| 3 | The news came on the day another record-breaker , Harry Taylor , 33 , returned home after he became the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without the aid of oxygen . |
| 4 | The answer came on the day she went to the station , to fetch the magazines . |
| 5 | Yesterday 's accident came on the day The Northern Echo featured the growing dangers on the road which links County Durham and Cumbria . |
| 6 | Ironically , David Guest 's victory came on the day that television cameras were allowed for the first time to record proceedings in a Scottish court . |
| 7 | News of the possible buyout came on the day on which production restarted at Leyland after a deal between suppliers and the receiver , Arthur Andersen . |
| 8 | The unexpected support came on the day miners ' unions , after receiving assurances , agreed to call off a High Court bid to force British Coal to re-open and work 10 pits earmarked for early closure . |
| 9 | The election of Clinton came on the day when trade talks between Europe and the US broke down again . |
| 10 | Well before we came on the flats I would imagine they was . |
| 11 | Aiming to cross into Austria at Gmünd , I came on the border post sooner than I had expected and , misreading the signs , drove past the guard-post to the frontier barrier . |
| 12 | A mere allegation that the goods are his , without any attempt to show how they came on the premises , will not do , for ‘ to allow such a statement to be a justification for entering the soil of another , would be opening too wide a door to parties to attempt righting themselves without resorting to law , and would necessarily tend to breach of the peace . ’ |
| 13 | Not knowing more than that , we had a long drive up the Conon before we came on the church — which is sited right below what we thereafter called ‘ The Conon Corbetts ’ . |
| 14 | Charles Laubscher , who remembers : ‘ We were flying across the southern end of the island when Control came on the air with the warning that two bogeys were in our area . |
| 15 | Elaine and George were sitting in their lounge watching South East at Six when the story of Louise Butler 's disappearance came on the air . |
| 16 | The Swede , playing in the penultimate group , finished his round just as Spanish television came on the air and the situation embarrassed tournament director David Probyn . |
| 17 | The profits growth came on the back of a 26 per cent rise in sales to more than £53m , with the total number of units sold up from 676 to 745 in the year . |
| 18 | The better-than-expected figures came on the back of a £24m buying spree , which included the £21.5m acquisition of Maxwell 's business publications in June . |
| 19 | Came on the back of a very very good move as always . |
| 20 | They were 132 for 6 at the close and it was clearly time to pray for rain ; but it came on the rest day by mistake , and although Emburey and Downton battled for a while , the end was not long delayed . |
| 21 | ‘ When the actual case came on the judge said some harsh things about the wife . |
| 22 | The renewed clashes came on the eve of the arrival of the first UN peace-keeping troops to Croatia . |
| 23 | Their warning came on the eve of talks between employers and union leaders representing 2.3m public employees demanding pay rises of 9½ p.c . |
| 24 | The admission came on the eve of a visit to Katyn by Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski . |
| 25 | The only blot on an otherwise clean campaign came on the eve of the poll when the communist newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya published a report implying that Yeltsin had been involved in an illegal deal to sell billions of roubles at a cheap rate to a British company . |
| 26 | The move came on the eve of informal peace talks in Utrecht , the Netherlands , between representatives of the government , led by Eric Singson , and a CPP delegation led by Jose Maria Sison . |
| 27 | The words , both exclamation and prayer , were forced out of him as he reached the bend in the road and came on the village of Granard . |
| 28 | I had just time to pull on a clean shirt and a pair of Chinos — Springsteen 's favourites as they show up his black hairs to best effect — before the local news came on the TV . |
| 29 | When ‘ English ’ first came on the scene in the nineteenth century , it was precisely as a form of Cultural Studies , involving not only language and literature , but history , geography , philosophy , and so on , requiring the first professors of the subject to be polymaths . |
| 30 | On 2 February ACAS published a draft report and finally in March 1977 , six months after they first came on the scene , they published the full report on Grunwick recommending recognition of APEX . |