Example sentences of "[verb] come down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Want to come down to the canteen ? |
| 2 | There are a few of us ( 3 at mo — myself , a mate and Steve Walsh ) who want to come down for the Oxford match from Durham/Newcastle . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years . |
| 5 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 6 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 7 | He says Come down to the surgery in the morning . |
| 8 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm terribly afraid it 's going to come down in the marshland . |
| 10 | I remember my father used to say that even those experiences that take us out of ourselves — the ‘ mountain-top ’ experiences — can never keep us from having to come down to the valley of ordinary existence . |
| 11 | Because often I would be alone with her up there : not like other children , having to come down to the drawing-room at five o'clock , brought by nurse , on their best behaviour . |
| 12 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 13 | There 's no way I can manage to come down at the moment . ’ |
| 14 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 15 | Pancevski himself appeared to come down on the side of the Serbian position by stressing repeatedly that political pluralism " must be based on socialist orientation and the federal structure " and asserting : " The LCY finds unacceptable the thesis according to which the essence and form of political pluralism are reduced to a classic multiparty system alone . " |
| 16 | A glacier stone in the churchyard is also mentioned in the Domesday Book and is believed to have come down during the Ice Age . |
| 17 | The pilot survey should be the crucial stage at which the surveyor is forced to come down from the ivory tower and communicate with the respondents . |
| 18 | The rain certainly did come down during the night , it was so loud on the window the noise made it difficult to sleep . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | We 've come down to the wine |
| 21 | We 've come down in the middle of nowhere , and you calmly suggest we walk out ! |
| 22 | You know , I think we 've that nobody keeps us We 've had a name over the years that we 're an expensive carrier , and it 's just sort of keep going and educating them that we 've come down in the market or , |
| 23 | The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 26 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
| 29 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 30 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |