Example sentences of "come down [prep] the [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
2 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
3 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
4 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
5 | The volatility of the Cusqueños coupled with the increasing pressure among them of poor campesinos who had come down from the Andes to seek a better life stood in ironic contrast to the rigid panoply of the state ; a situation brought home to me on Easter Sunday . |