Example sentences of "came down [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Meanwhile , as Ladbrokes shortened Nashwan 's odds for next Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from 2-1 to 7-4 with a run , French Glory came down a point to 7-1 amid rumours that Pat Eddery would switch to him from Khalid Abdullah 's other probable runner , Assatis . |
2 | Battered by the chance collision of several billion molecules , the die flipped onto a point , spun gently and came down a seven . |
3 | When Terry went upstairs to change , Ellie went with her , and when they came down a short while later , when Terry and Declan were ready to leave , Ellie was right there beside them . |
4 | It maybe came down a little bit too slow for him . |
5 | The other came down a short distance the other side of the village of Whelford |
6 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
7 | The first , wearing a traditional Burmese longyi , or sarong , and carrying an umbrella and a briefcase , was thoroughly searched by Thai security forces when he came down the plane steps . |
8 | He walked straight back round the top of the little dale until they came down the slope to the road , well out of sight of the cottage . |
9 | Joe stood up and came down the table towards Harriet Shakespeare . |
10 | She came to the rehearsal and came down the bridge over the orchestra where I was directing , and she said to the manager , ‘ If this veil remains , I do not sing . ’ |
11 | Let's go ! ’ and Dave came down the tree in a way that made my eyes water . |
12 | The men came down the stern ladder . |
13 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
14 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
15 | I came down the slope , trying not to smirk . |
16 | Mrs Singh came down the hall and opened the door , smiling . |
17 | A horse came down the ramp in one bound , as if on wings , hit the concrete in a shower of sparks . |
18 | A man stood between these with the barrow behind him , and came down the almost precipitous slopes with the momentum of a quarter of a ton of stone lifting him off his feet for yards at a time , the exertions of keeping the load under control leaving him breathless and throbbing . |
19 | As the dusk came down the bats came out and the song of birds ceased one by one until only a lone blackbird spoke occasionally from the shadows . |
20 | At first , Charles found only 150 clansmen , all of them Macdonalds , waiting to greet him but then the distant skirl of bagpipes was heard and the Camerons , 700 or 800 strong , came down the hillside in orderly columns , escorting the prisoners captured at High Bridge . |
21 | A groan of real sympathy came down the line . |
22 | The Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 came down the day after the fourth anniversary of the Lockerbie bomb — allegedly planted by two Libyans — which killed 270 . |
23 | Even the fishing fleet came down the harbour as expected from intelligence reports , and might have choked the narrow 100 yards wide entrance if a burst of tracer from a destroyer had not turned them aside as they grasped the situation . |
24 | With his two daughters , one holding each hand , he came down the long staircase from the top-floor flat . |
25 | It was crowded , and as the rain began to fall more rabbits came down the runs . |
26 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
27 | The elderly voice , half a challenge and half a tease , came down the telephone to Molly as she was in the middle of giving Jacqueline her supper . |
28 | She had caught his eye as she came down the aisle . |
29 | Dawson came down the scale and finished with a bass boom , index finger down heavily , thumb extended . |
30 | Late in the morning Valeria suggested we should all go down and have breakfast , and as we came down the staircase we saw to our horror that her mother was waiting for us at the bottom . |