Example sentences of "[pers pn] come down to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |
| 2 | ‘ I tell you what , if it 's a nice day why do n't your mother and I come down to the tournament on Sunday ? |
| 3 | which I shall not attempt to conceal from you , but before I come down to the details let me say that Darwinism occupies such a central position in evolutionary biology — in biology as a whole , not just in evolutionary biology but in the whole of biology — that any important , new idea in biology has to be , to some extent , judged by its compatibility with , or its contradictions of , the Darwinian position . |
| 4 | Twomey sent old Lizzie with the summons : " Mr Twomey says , Sir Dermot says , for ye to come down to the morning room — the young gentlemen are here . " |
| 5 | The next time she came down to the village was after a day or two . |
| 6 | One of Aunt Tossie 's luxuries was an early breakfast in bed — later she came down to the dining room where she ate a second . |
| 7 | When she came down to the drawing room , Dada was looking particularly small , too . |
| 8 | are you coming down to the car ? |
| 9 | ‘ No. ’ 'Then why do n't you come down to the marina at five tomorrow morning . |
| 10 | Then coming on to the end of Street next door was a milliners , now that nobody knows what they are today Miss the name was and then coming across Street to the other side was which was a drapers , and next coming down was Smiths the butcher 's shop , and next to that was the grocers , following on down there was the ironmonger , then there was the newspaper , and you come down to the White Hart erm then we come to the White Hart |
| 11 | You know when you come down to the referrals part of it , what is |
| 12 | jus just ignore pretend he 's not here , carry on when you come down to the referrals bit |
| 13 | We were not very popular when we came down to the sitting-room . |
| 14 | She remembered me coming down to the burn and tramping the bags in the the , help to wash them . |
| 15 | Meantime , he reminded himself , since the entire company was now assembled , he had better be about sending off Father Boniface 's errand-boy to find Aldhelm at Upton among his sheep , and ask him to come down to the abbey when his work for the day was over , and pick out his shadowy Benedictine from among a number now complete . |
| 16 | They came down to the verge of the lake , and drank and drank . |
| 17 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 18 | At that moment ‘ a white light shone forth like a sword ’ from Gandalf , as many people see ‘ the light that shone ’ round Éowyn and Faramir as they come down to the Houses of Healing . |
| 19 | They come down to the knee . |
| 20 | He came down to the half-landing and stood behind her , peering over her shoulder at Carlos 's face on the little phone . |
| 21 | So he came down to the vestibule , where the three doors were , and under the sills of the two great doors light shone , warm and enticing , and the third was behind a musty leather curtain . |
| 22 | Because when it came down to the work bit |
| 23 | In the end it come down to the individual 's sense of being violated and the individual 's reassertion of his or her pride . |
| 24 | I think the basic problem is erm it goes back further than that and it comes down to the organisation that my colleague here belongs to . |
| 25 | We also recognise that there is a tremendous problem for deferred pensioners in achieving reasonable transfer values er er er it 's a massive problem for them , even where they could find perhaps something to do with that money and a scheme that would do them better , not always , because there , there are people that give bad advice , but there are some that go into it very thoroughly and when it comes down to the bit the transfer value they receive makes it im practically impossible for them to do it . |
| 26 | Again , it comes down to the concept of institutionalisation and the harmful effects on mentally handicapped people living with large numbers of other handicapped people as opposed to integrating freely with the community at large . |
| 27 | It comes down to the clowning , the pratfalls , the catcalls , |
| 28 | So , in the end ( or should one say ‘ at the beginning' ? ) it comes down to the health of the living soil . |
| 29 | Cinderella , oh I do n't know when that one 's coming down if it comes down to the pictures we 'll go and watch it , I 'll promise you that , right , who 's nicked my cup ? |