Example sentences of "come down [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 2 | This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ . |
| 3 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |
| 4 | his feet came down to the knees on it |
| 5 | The vicar ‘ came down to the steps at the top of the nave , accompanied by a server with a basket of palms and we all went up and got one except J[ack] . ’ |
| 6 | I tried to stop him , but it were Mr Benedict coming down through the kitchens in such a bang and shouting for his groom that started it . ’ |
| 7 | Since the entire political strategy of his Democratic Leadership Council has been to persuade white folks that the Democratic Party no longer cares for ‘ minorities ’ and will target no particular money in their direction , Clinton has been predictably low on concrete ideas , coming down from the hills after the battle to suffocate the wounded with great cushions of blather about how ‘ we ’ have ‘ refused to confront our differences ’ and ‘ for this neglect we have all paid ’ . |
| 8 | He rang off , and it was only minutes before they heard the chug of the engine of his jeep coming down from the hills in the still of the morning . |
| 9 | It could all come down to the doorsteps in Darlington . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | come down with the stairs to chap , young chap , I told you he 's knocking on the door , it must of been then . |
| 12 | Some of the older blokes , they come out , and they started fighting as well ! ( laughter ) One bloke come down from the flats with just a pair of trousers and a vest on and he started having a go ! |
| 13 | Spider monkeys originate from South America and rarely come down from the trees in their wild state . |