Example sentences of "come [prep] the scene [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The third defendant appears to have come onto the scene in about 1982 as a financial adviser in connection with the proposal to acquire and develop the bakery for the purposes of the centre . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | When he asked a police colonel who came to the scene why the elderly couple 's flat had been blown up , the officer replied : ‘ You should have given us your correct address , Comrade Ardzinov . ’ |
4 | He was not , it appears , in any way responsible for the Montagu declaration — though he anticipated its thinking-but came on the scene shortly afterwards as one of the chief architects of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms . |
5 | ‘ Your Grace , I and two others were some way behind , bringing up the spare horses , and came on the scene only in time to see Sir Edmund at grips , and the battle all but done . |
6 | But she only came on the scene recently ; there were others . |