Example sentences of "come down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 2 | They had been allowed in , they had gone past the uniformed security , and then had had to sit and wait in a grey-painted lobby , watched by the plainclothes minders , before the man had come down for them . |
| 3 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 4 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 5 | He still liked to come down for meals but often could n't last out and would leave his food and return . |
| 6 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 7 | Da says he 's going to come down for tea with — ’ |
| 8 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 9 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 10 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 11 | I had spent Monday , after a cursory check of the Poles , making one or two repairs and improvements to the Factory , working through the afternoon until my eyes got sore and my father had to call up to me to come down for my dinner . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell you what , see if you can persuade him to come down for an X-ray . |
| 14 | and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days . |
| 15 | Ring her up , see if she wants to come down for a drink . |
| 16 | Borrow was pleased to accept the invitation and came down for Christmas , 1853 . |
| 17 | ‘ The bird 's mate came down for me , and I jumped into a crack in the ice . |
| 18 | Susan came down for breakfast today , and they had an exciting time opening their parcels , for their father 's illness had prevented their making friends in the neighbourhood ; but there was plenty to do and talk about , and they steadfastly refused to give way to the depression that naturally overcame them at times . |
| 19 | If I remember , that was on a Saturday night when the gents came down for their pickings . |
| 20 | It was up to her , quickly , to forge herself a manner that would give her an advantage in whatever negotiations were to come : and she had done so , by the time he came down for his breakfast . |
| 21 | You could n't walk into his dressing-room five minutes after the curtain came down for fear of what you might find him doing . |
| 22 | Richard said he 'd invite me over next time she came down for the weekend . ’ |
| 23 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
| 24 | Felipe had gone before Maggie came down for breakfast the next day . |
| 25 | I came down for the fire , for it was cold in my room . |
| 26 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 27 | ‘ I have to go out today , ’ Fernando told her when she came down for breakfast on the terrace the next morning . |
| 28 | and er , I told him all about it , and I said I do n't know what happened to I spoke to somebody last Monday and he was coming down immediately for it , so he sort of said , well I 'll come down for it , there 's a different one , he got , and he came down for it and he took it , so er , . |
| 29 | So Morag when she came down , came down for the whole week . |
| 30 | well she came down for Keith 's sake , she came down to Bournemouth for holidays and erm like it so much she brought the company . |