Example sentences of "coming down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pretty much the same sort of shit was coming down at AMS , if we 'd gone looking for it , and of course it was happening all over town at well-known locations : St Mary 's , St Andrew 's , St Anne 's . |
| 2 | Well I thought , she 's coming down with Martin and Uncle Marvin and all that , and she 's going to be here for dinner , now she is n't ! |
| 3 | See if she wants to er , you know , coming down on Sunday . |
| 4 | Instead of coming down on players who , like Bryan Gunn , the Norwich goalkeeper , give rational views of incidents to newspapers , the FA might do better to examine the irrational attitudes created by some of those running the teams . |
| 5 | I would n't mention this to your chums — boys can be so cruel — but I shall be coming down on Sports Day . |
| 6 | The industry 's corporate leaders must have laughed demonically to themselves when they saw the full weight of the law coming down on people manufacturing and distributing comparatively harmless drugs , such as marijuana . |
| 7 | They 're only really happy when they 're coming down on people . |
| 8 | They 're only really happy when they 're coming down on people . |
| 9 | Cos if you say , if you talk to her , say we all thought you were coming down on Thursday . |
| 10 | With its current penchant for clamping down on perceived violations of its copyright , AT&T 's Unix System Laboratories Inc is now coming down on Unix Solutions for its use of the Unix logo in its company name . |
| 11 | The housemaid said to me that the daughter and son-in-law were coming down for Easter ( I 've often had a laugh over this ) ; and she said : |
| 12 | She spent each afternoon in bed , coming down for dinner and then lying on the sofa afterwards . |
| 13 | She says are you coming down for Christmas and I said I do n't know yet . |
| 14 | It was a break , coming down to Athens , and a good break should be grabbed with both fists . |
| 15 | Major institutional investors felt the deal gave too much to Mr Ritblat , his family and British Land management — New British Land was to be paid £15million a year in management charges for the first three years , coming down to £10million as properties were sold . |
| 16 | She 's coming down to Sally and Jane . |
| 17 | With me coming from the North of England , everybody is pretty reserved up there at the best of times , so coming down to London and meeting Angie with an American accent and flitting around the room and speaking in a loud voice all the time , it was amazing . |
| 18 | Your chances of coming down to London and finding someone who may have been there over a decade ago are not just slim , they 're non-existent . |
| 19 | On one occasion an Irish visitor asked a late tenant , Mr Crawshaw , if the lady in white who had passed him on the stairs would be coming down to breakfast soon . |
| 20 | Coming down to breakfast I find raw , slanting cuts I never made on the loaf in the crock . ) |
| 21 | I 'm coming down to leeds for the Man City match in about 3 weeks time . |
| 22 | It was around this time that Nick Kent started coming down to rehearsals at Riverside . |
| 23 | Coming down to children er , are doing wilful damage and er graffiti and all this sort of thing . |
| 24 | Coming down to earth : Over the next four weeks Sally Tamplin looks at the problems of a small town garden . |
| 25 | In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth . |
| 26 | ‘ The biggest spanking you 've ever had , ’ she answered promptly , coming down to earth ; and they proceeded down a steep zigzag path to the shore . |
| 27 | She was coming down to earth . |
| 28 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Coming down to earth , have you found out anything about Brand ? ’ |
| 29 | erm the ostensible subject of this passage is that he 's now finished with hell and heaven as the setting for his poems , and he 's coming down to earth for what is left . |
| 30 | ‘ You fancy coming down to Bert Midgeley 's with me , dinner time ? ’ he asked Billy . |