Example sentences of "come down [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The little plane came down at the old airport , south of the town . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Beyond the curtains , the rain came down with a sudden clatter on the roof of the Ropewalk below . |
| 11 | ‘ Yesterday morning , Doctor Livesey came down with a white flag . |
| 12 | He took in Marcus 's absence , went upstairs and came down with the pale boy behind him . |
| 13 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 14 | So Morag when she came down , came down for the whole week . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 25 | My talk with Quintin had more content since he said that if another peer came down from the Upper House he would withdraw from public life whether he was in the Upper or Lower House . |
| 26 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |
| 27 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 28 | We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees . |
| 29 | The-other four Goshawk aircraft came down in an angled line which allowed each gun to rake the target from nose to tail in a continuous devastation of bullets . |
| 30 | Half way through his super-human effort his foot slipped and in mid-launch he came down in an uncoordinated heap just outside the throwing circle . |