Example sentences of "to come down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The access was never meant to be it was meant to be further in and and we all for well know , the permission was for a drive to come down through the wood , which would have been very attractive and a garage on the end of the property . |
| 4 | Because some people are making large profits , and raising the total of profits by so doing , it is proposed to come down on the ‘ innocent ’ businesses , whose profits may actually have gone down , who have been being ‘ responsible ’ and not increasing their prices ; and their taxes will be put up — all because of the other bounders , who meanwhile are laughing their heads off . |
| 5 | The Late Show , challenged by David Hare to decide whether Keats was more important than Dylan , now seems inclined to come down on the side of Keats . |
| 6 | But we had to choose , early on , which side we belonged to , and children have to come down on the side that brings the food home and gets it on the table . |
| 7 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 8 | Pancevski himself appeared to come down on the side of the Serbian position by stressing repeatedly that political pluralism " must be based on socialist orientation and the federal structure " and asserting : " The LCY finds unacceptable the thesis according to which the essence and form of political pluralism are reduced to a classic multiparty system alone . " |
| 9 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 10 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 11 | There 's no way I can manage to come down at the moment . ’ |
| 12 | Want to come down to the canteen ? |
| 13 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 14 | I remember my father used to say that even those experiences that take us out of ourselves — the ‘ mountain-top ’ experiences — can never keep us from having to come down to the valley of ordinary existence . |
| 15 | To get off my frustration I used to come down to the track and run it out . |
| 16 | I run to the house with Mrs Gould and we get everybody — my mum and dad and the other guests — to come down to the river . |
| 17 | Because often I would be alone with her up there : not like other children , having to come down to the drawing-room at five o'clock , brought by nurse , on their best behaviour . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And then at nighttime we used to come down to the , if we , if we did n't go in Baths which was smashing , it was absolutely great , had two piers and a , a diving board , er and a deep end and a , and a shallow end for kids . |
| 20 | Well it , it I expected that he would have to go and I should have to manage on my own and it was quite er er a , a way to come down to the shop . |
| 21 | 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 . " |
| 22 | ‘ In that case I must ask you both to come down to the station with me . |
| 23 | They 're nice old people , and I think it would be good for Mrs Richards to come down to the village more , and be part of Santa Barbara . ’ |
| 24 | So if the mover of composite eight would come down and standing in the of the Northern Region , to be seconded by Lancashire , but as we 're now formally seconding the er the , the formally seconders will not be required to come down to the front , but the movers will . |
| 25 | Missionary Kate McBeth wrote : ‘ For a few years at first Joseph was afraid to come down upon the Nez Perce reserve — afraid of the surrounding whites and because of the many indictments against him — but this fear wore off . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm terribly afraid it 's going to come down in the marshland . |
| 27 | The pilot survey should be the crucial stage at which the surveyor is forced to come down from the ivory tower and communicate with the respondents . |
| 28 | You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all . |
| 29 | They used to come down from the North-German , Swiss , English , American . |