Example sentences of "come on " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is where the plugger and press officer come on the scene . |
| 2 | The River Nene around Peterborough has really come on form for roach in the last few months , despite the weather , with double-figure hauls of quality fish commonplace . |
| 3 | On one occasion he went to Dundee where the promoter knocked down his purse from £4 to £2. 10s. because he had come on his motor bike rather than on the train . |
| 4 | On the Hyperion label the disc comes at ‘ upper mid-price ’ - just under £10-but it is worth remembering that Sir David Willcocks 's vintage performances of the Coronation Anthems with King 's College Choir at their brightest now come on mid-price CD in Decca 's Ovation series , generously coupled with the magnificent , extended Chandos Anthem No. 9 , O Praise The Lord With One Consent . |
| 5 | Technically the Austrians have come on strongly , Rudolph Nierlich winning two slalom golds at the Vail World Championships . |
| 6 | Technically the Austrians have come on strongly , Rudolph Nierlich winning two slalom golds at the Vail World Championships . |
| 7 | I 've come on your wild-goose chase and that 's all I can do for you . ’ |
| 8 | The policeman and the girl had come on an ordinary routine visit . |
| 9 | Davies had come on when Swansea scored their second try to take over from flanker Alan Reynolds , who had a foot injury . |
| 10 | Brown has come on a kind of pilgrimage to the heart of urban blight . |
| 11 | Yet he has seen only two other houses in the creek come on the market in the last 12 years . |
| 12 | His one-handed work has come on tremendously . |
| 13 | I had come on leave first , so I was first to return . |
| 14 | Half an hour prior to Trent 's calculated sailing time , Louis had come on deck . |
| 15 | Rose was unable to do much when she was discharged from hospital after four months , but she assumed she would recover all of a sudden , because her illness had come on so suddenly . |
| 16 | Two men talked their way into the home of two elderly sisters , pretending that they had come on behalf of neighbours to cut down trees in the garden . |
| 17 | But these really hard scrappers have come on short lines when float fishing , and a short line makes a lot of difference to how a fish fights when the elasticity is negligible . |
| 18 | Bronchitis of children with coarse rattling , coughing , gagging and a sense of suffocation , weight and anxiety in the chest , after a rapid onset and they look dreadfully sick , drawn and pale ; the condition has come on rapidly . |
| 19 | If he is to succeed , Simpson might have to rely heavily on his father , Gordon Simpson , a former finance director of Shell who has come on board as deputy chairman . |
| 20 | Johnson had come on tremendously under his coach Charlie Francis since winning the 100 metres silver medal in Brisbane . |
| 21 | Etty with her friend Dolly Murchie , had come on the scene . |
| 22 | She had come on an errand and was greeted by a mad woman , an amazon . |
| 23 | The next time I went slowly past their table , refill coffee pot at the ready , the conversation was back to the journey , with Xanthe this time saying she basically thought horseracing boring and she would n't have come on this trip if her father had n't made her . |
| 24 | Perhaps , he said , the hijackers had come on the train . |
| 25 | Maybe , the Mountie said , but if she was as upset as all that , why had she come on the train at all ? |
| 26 | It 's not that I 've come on my own because it 's something that is seen as just my problem , because as I said , Tom does n't seem that interested either . |
| 27 | ‘ He has come on nicely since the Hennessy and has been working well but he could do with a run this week , ’ he added . |
| 28 | The big man had obviously come on deck to warn me what to expect from the twins , and for that I was grateful . |
| 29 | ‘ Kirov I You have come on business , I hope ? ’ |
| 30 | The coypu-control man must have come on a weekday , though , and it was with that hangover that Adam associated his coming . |