5103 examples of come on in sentences

" "All right, come on," cried Billie, running ahead of them and taking two steps at a time.

"Oh, come on," he cried.

The fever must have come on latera fever which with my knowledge of what had occurred at The Whispering Pines, seemed the only natural outcome of the situation.

Come on now, boss.

"You come on back," Parker called, "Skinny'll have to do it.

"Come on, Dame Linkon, and take your bath," cried some idle urchins, waiting at the water in anticipation of rare sport.

There was a member of parliament, who wanted to prepare himself to speak on a question that was to come on in the House; and he and I were to talk it over together.

So I went on to Holland with that quick-change artist, and watched him come on board the steamer at Parkeston Quay, dressed as a rather German-looking commercial traveller, eager for war commissions upon smuggled goods.

" "Very well; come on; and step softly.

V. impend; hang over, lie over; threaten, loom, await, come on, approach, stare one in the face; foreordain, preordain; predestine, doom, have in store for.

"How do you come on with the picture?"

He was taken to the police-court next day, and committed for trial at the, next session, which would come on in a month.

"Girls! come on out!

,' says I, 'I'm come on the best ov business, whin the Prence is afther sendin' his man to tell me to come on a visit.

"Leave the half o' ye to guard the arms, and come on the rest of ye without 'em," shouted Buzzby.

"Well, you tried to write one, anyhow," said Ethel, recalling a certain "Mammoth" packet of note-paper that had come on an evil end before Lewisham found his industrial level.

Let me have ever so few men-at-arms given me, and I will go to Orleans;" then, addressing another of the examiners, Master Peter of Versailles, who was afterwards Bishop of Meaux, she said, "I know nor A nor B; but in our Lord's book there is more than in your books; I come on behalf of the King of Heaven to cause the siege of Orleans to be raised, and to take the king to Rheims, that he may be crowned and anointed there."

" "Come on, lads, and we'll soon be among 'em," said Willet.

"Come on, boys, get some gasoline, hop in the dinghy and let's get aboard.

Will you come on board?" "Sure, if yer'll drop a Jacob's ladder," bellowed the captain at the invisible speaker.

Ace yelled to me to come on, and all hands including the captain gathered on deck forward, where we had coffee, good home-made bread bought from a farmer's wife, fried cakes, boiled potatoes, and plenty of salt pork, finishing with pie.

Did it come on with fever-n'-chills, like most other breaking-outs?

I had now to determine the order of our advance, and decided that we should ride forward alternately, at least until we should strike the crossing of the Totopotomoy Creek; so I halted Jones, rode forward for fifty yards or so, then stopped and beckoned to him to come on.

"Terriss has 'come on' wonderfully, and his Don Pedro is princely and manful.

Mr. Gascoyne, the other member for Liverpool, said he had no objection that the discussion should stand over to the next session of parliament, provided it could not come on in the present, because he was persuaded it would ultimately be found that his constituents, who were more immediately concerned in the trade, and who had been so shamefully calumniated, were men of respectable character.

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