Example sentences of "comes on [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jettisoning Shakespeare , and talking in a ludicrous mixture of Italian and heavily accented English , he comes on as a hilarious parody of a libidinous Latin , pinching handbags from the audience , flogging dodgy cassette tapes and offering healing laughter after all the grief of the earlier acts . |
| 2 | I lock the door ; as I move away from it , a small , faint red light comes on with a tiny clinking noise , high up in one far corner of the room . |
| 3 | Yeah they , they erm when you switch the teletext on it comes on to a hundred , that 's the thing , and , and , and on that a hundred they 'll give you er news one O two or whatever it is , you know , and so on . |
| 4 | He comes on like a Greek god and claims credit for fixing the weather . |
| 5 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 6 | It sometimes comes on in the open air . |