Example sentences of "[adv] come down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
2 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
3 | Lancashire Region to second and colleagues if , if all the other movers and seconders and the C E C speaker would all come down to the front it would help us enormously with time Yorkshire Region to move . |
4 | Well anyway Sarah and that lot can sleep downstairs , we 'll all come down during the night |
5 | She had evidently only come down to the foyer to collect her mail . |
6 | erm But it basically comes down to the attitude that people have , if the government was , or whoever owns the forest , private ownership , or whatever , controls what the loggers do , I mean it 's their forest it 's up to them to control what the loggers do and do n't do , and whether they let cultivators in or they do n't let cultivators in . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |
9 | They finally came down on the side of 36-year-old Anne Bancroft , although she had seldom played comedy , having made her name in such powerful dramas as The Miracle Worker and The Pumpkin Eater . |
10 | " I hope you 're not coming down with a fever , dear , " said my mother . |
11 | Wednesday , I 'd got Michael outside in the pushchair , coat on and I think I 'd just come down from the loo and I saw the car pull up I quickly ran and got me coat on oh I , I 'll come with you she said , so she come shopping with me . |
12 | Sheer orders of magnitude matter , and the orders of magnitude do not come down on the side of the real-balance effect . |
13 | Did it really not come down to a fear of the knife ? |
14 | Her left hand did not come down upon the ground . |
15 | Nemesis had still come down like the wolf on the fold . |
16 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
17 | And they still come down with a van |
18 | Rain coming down , usually come down in a stream so you have some kind of erm mill |
19 | The choice of where to hold the party usually comes down to the home or a local hall . |
20 | ‘ In that case I must ask you both to come down to the station with me . |
21 | I think that 's probably come down through the years and things are still that way for musicians : get them as cheap as you can and never give them the credit that they deserve . ’ |
22 | Water also came down to the mill from a cutting , possibly working a mill wheel . |
23 | The Khmer Rouge also comes down from the north through Preah Vihear to Kompong Thom , Kratie and Kompong Cham . |
24 | A group of youngsters can often come down to the river and go over the top |
25 | He often comes down to the evening meal drained and exhausted after a day of writing his name at the bottom of letters like these . |
26 | If James has n't come down by the time you get back , I promise to go and get you a drink , my darling , dearest , demanding wife . ’ |
27 | Do n't come down to the kitchen . |
28 | I guess he heard Barbara and me discussing the good time we had with you , and he kind of picked up on it , and he wondered why he could n't come down to the Bahamas and isolate himself from drugs . |
29 | Diane locked herself in her bedroom and would n't come down for a day because she was afraid of her father 's anger . |
30 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |