Example sentences of "come down [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the people that have left are sort of in the recession and that now , there 's all the really big business people and that that have come down to the same level as everybody else . |
| 2 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
| 3 | Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held . |
| 4 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 5 | A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road … |
| 6 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 7 | Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet . |
| 8 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 9 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 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 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 12 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
| 13 | As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 . |
| 14 | The little plane came down at the old airport , south of the town . |
| 15 | Then Handlebar 's cock suddenly jumped into the air , flew the distance that separated it from its rival and came down on the darker bird with its neck arched and talons open . |
| 16 | Two czarist officers , bulky in their comic-opera uniforms , solemnly played Russian roulette , each downing a drink every time the firing pin of their revolver came down on an empty chamber . |
| 17 | Beyond the curtains , the rain came down with a sudden clatter on the roof of the Ropewalk below . |
| 18 | ‘ Yesterday morning , Doctor Livesey came down with a white flag . |
| 19 | He took in Marcus 's absence , went upstairs and came down with the pale boy behind him . |
| 20 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 21 | So Morag when she came down , came down for the whole week . |
| 22 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
| 23 | However , setting this aside and taking parent-authorisation at face value , the high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage perceived to be casual or persistent truants . |
| 24 | The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows . |
| 25 | Following these now disregarded signs of past activity along the old path , I traversed the hillside and came down to a crumbling stone sheepfold with the roofless remains of a shepherd 's hut built into one wall . |
| 26 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 27 | She says a woman on an earlier expedition had snow blindness and as soon as she came down to a lower altitude , she was put on a drip and recovered in a few days . |
| 28 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 29 | Cathery also added : " Lewis and Cannon ( the branch secretary ) came down to the Central Office and I let [ them ] see all the books , cheque book , bank passbook etc. ; in fact all they wanted to see . |
| 30 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |