Example sentences of "come on to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Blakey , only a little less sceptical than her husband of this line of talk , nevertheless recalled how Timothy Gedge had affected her when he 'd come on to the telephone with a woman 's voice , and her bewilderment when the silence had first begun in the house . |
| 2 | The needle will come on to the scale from the Left on the indicator . |
| 3 | But the upward pressure on prices will be dampened by the 70,000 repossessed properties and the large stock of inherited houses that will now come on to the market . |
| 4 | Not only would I lose a valued client but her collection might come on to the market , her reasons for selling would become known , Durances all over the world would become suspect and lose their value and dealers would suffer . |
| 5 | At halftime , he 'd come on to the pitch and give the whole team extra-strong mints , rearrange the tactics , change our positions , tell us we were playing downhill in the second half , tell us that a six-goal deficit was nothing . |