Example sentences of "[noun sg] come down [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boat came down between two waves , and Grace quickly got her oars out . |
| 2 | Any use of nuclear weapons which resulted in significant fall-out coming down in neutral countries , or which in other ways violated neutral territory , would clearly fall foul of this provision . |
| 3 | He had n't reckoned on one of the Liaison team coming down from Central London just to shake his hand , talk baseball results , and drive him back . |
| 4 | One mishap saw a German come down on two parachutes including his reserve . |
| 5 | So Ariel kept vigil as the night came down on that day nearly four hundred years ago , when everything changed for them . |
| 6 | The problems are ones of ethics , which in turn come down to public attitudes to what life would be like with a mentally handicapped child . |
| 7 | ‘ Then , ’ continued the barmaid , as Cornelius sniffed on appreciatively , ‘ this meteor came down in old Jack Spar 's field , least as how they thought it were a meteor . |
| 8 | He had been following the narrow forest path downhill for some leagues , the trees soaring ever taller overhead , so that the sunlight came down in muted bars between the leaves . |