Example sentences of "come down [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? "
2 I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr .
3 He needed to come down from a greater height than most .
4 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 .
5 Beyond the curtains , the rain came down with a sudden clatter on the roof of the Ropewalk below .
6 ‘ Yesterday morning , Doctor Livesey came down with a white flag .
7 The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear .
8 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 .
9 The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Most of the groceries came down from a grand shop in London but she 'd order perishable goods from her brother and then send a servant to complain of the quality .
14 When the clock struck , the preacher came down from a little room behind the platform , followed by ten or a dozen men who looked like prosperous City merchants .
15 Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea .
16 We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees .
17 ‘ But the crucial thing is to see that budget deficit coming down on a medium term basis convincingly .
18 The rain was coming down in a solid curtain .
19 ‘ James is coming down in a little while , Christina .
20 We were , after all , in the huge personnel carrier area , with pods , shuttles and other small vehicles coming down in a steady stream , every one of them disgorging masked and costumed revellers .
21 When he reached the top , he stopped on the landing for a moment to allow his eyes to adjust ; there was illumination of a kind , coming down from a grimy skylight set into the angled ceiling , and it showed nothing much more than three old-fashioned doors and a bare wooden floor .
22 And if I come down with a sore throat now , I 'll know who to blame .
23 Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta .
24 ‘ … unfortunately , ’ Michele went on , ‘ I have n't a clue as to where Lucia 's secret hiding-place might be , so it comes down to a straightforward search . ’
25 The hon. Member for Dundee , East called on us to promise a review , but that comes down to a running review and immediate flexibility .
26 And it comes down to a basic difference of approach to this .
27 The concrete spillway below the Loch Add reservoir comes down to a stepped slope above the confluence of several small burns draining nearby slopes .
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