Example sentences of "coming down [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the crucial thing is to see that budget deficit coming down on a medium term basis convincingly . |
| 2 | Looking up at the north-facing slope ahead you would see snow and ice and you would tremble , but you would know that coming down on the other side , you would walk in sunshine , through green grass and sweet-smelling flowers . |
| 3 | Are you coming down to the great burrow ? " |
| 4 | The rain was coming down in a solid curtain . |
| 5 | ‘ James is coming down in a little while , Christina . |
| 6 | We were , after all , in the huge personnel carrier area , with pods , shuttles and other small vehicles coming down in a steady stream , every one of them disgorging masked and costumed revellers . |
| 7 | Now this is a a British lorry coming down in the offside lane , cos it 's only two lanes . |
| 8 | You 're in the nearside lane and you 're going uphill and er you 're trunking away quite nicely , you see a guy coming down in the fast lane , down the hill getting a bit of a roll on , fully laden , and he gets halfway up the hill , he runs out of steam and he 's looking for a hole to get into . |
| 9 | When he reached the top , he stopped on the landing for a moment to allow his eyes to adjust ; there was illumination of a kind , coming down from a grimy skylight set into the angled ceiling , and it showed nothing much more than three old-fashioned doors and a bare wooden floor . |
| 10 | The Macaber , the hooded , skeletal apparition , coming down from the Black Tower to dance amongst the plague-ridden townships of the Middle Ages , leading them in the dread danse macabre , forcing them to dance with him until they dropped … |
| 11 | We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains . |
| 12 | From his new station he could see the three lakes — Loweswater , Crummock Water and Buttermere — lined up in the valley like three barges ready to be towed down to the shore ; he could see the bivouac huts of some woodmen and he spotted more than one flock coming down from the high pastures — but Mary chided him . |