Example sentences of "come down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vague command where the child does not understand the meaning behind the statement , e.g. ‘ Be careful ’ instead of ‘ Please come down off that wall ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Come down off that ! |
| 3 | Come down off that ! |
| 4 | and you think well to hell with it , they should be , come down on hard . |
| 5 | In the end environmental issues come down to political decisions on what people want . |
| 6 | It 's interesting to note that actually now we 've since made that decision the residual has as I 've said come down to nine four seven , so if we do have a new settlement of fourteen hundred we 're already ending up with a a higher level of proposed development for Greater York now , the nine seven would obviously be exceeded if we had a fourteen hundred new settlement within Greater York . |
| 7 | Then they come down to that price . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These actually come down to common sense , but it still needs to be stressed that the successful study of coinage , as any other historical discipline , should be based on as full a collection of the evidence as possible as well as an awareness that this evidence should never be taken at face value . |
| 10 | But er you know it come down to forty-six and usually only do about thirty-eight now that is , sommat like and er it 's only half a week . |
| 11 | Had it all come down to this ? |
| 12 | Yes so we come down to this do n't we ? |
| 13 | Well he , if he co if he 'd have come down my wa he come down at eight or nine o'clock the shops would have been shut . |
| 14 | And everybody sa shouting out , plane come down at six o'clock . |
| 15 | Or when I come down with psychosomatic diseases so that my wife babies me and Huxley and Hooker fight all my battles . |
| 16 | Mind you he come down from five hundred to two hundred and fifty so that 's helped a bit . |
| 17 | When you come down from twenty to eight or nine in a season , you know |
| 18 | I have already discussed the improbability of the entire aircraft , its crew and its troops disappearing totally over land ; though , of course , had it come down in enemy-occupied territory , nothing might ever have been known of the matter if all the occupants had perished , and certainly not if any survivors had been disposed of ( which , given the purpose of their mission , would have been highly probable ) . |
| 19 | Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous . |
| 20 | you u u use your brain a bit more , see now if er they used to come to me , my brother was one , he 'd come to me and he 'd say , right I 've got a heavy lift , so will you come up here and sling it for me but we had to put the slings round the heavy lift , say , I say right I 'll come up and another time we had a railway carriage come down like that 'll be shipped abroad , old railway carriage . |