Example sentences of "come down [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
2 | This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ . |
3 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
4 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
5 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
6 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
7 | Now there was some dispute over whether Berlin or Bonn should be the capital , they 've come down on the side of Berlin , but is that dispute settled now ? |
8 | The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood . |
9 | Nemesis had still come down like the wolf on the fold . |
10 | We 've come down in the middle of nowhere , and you calmly suggest we walk out ! |
11 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |