Example sentences of "come down [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We came down just after the surrender and landed in Singapore and marched 20 miles because there was no transport . ’ |
| 2 | GERMANY 'S press came down firmly on the side of the Princess of Wales . |
| 3 | The British Treasury finally came down firmly against the idea of trying to " wriggle through " without the loan . |
| 4 | ‘ Give my thanks to Bartholomew the Englishman , ’ Cranston replied drily , ‘ but it does n't explain why a London merchant came down here in the dark , fastened a rope round a beam and hanged himself . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ My lord came down here from the town when he heard of these outlaws passing this way , but never a glimpse of them have we encountered since . |
| 6 | So , when on 8 May Acheson announced that the US would send economic and military aid to the French in Indo-China ( for Gaddis Smith , the turning point — ‘ the scales had swayed for three months and then came down hard on the side of France ) the French position was at least potentially desperate and one can not help asking whether there were any countries receiving military aid under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , other than Vietnam , in which there were such powerful revolutionary forces and where a revolutionary war was already in progress . |
| 7 | and er they 're coming down here for the morning she always does it |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps I may come down again in the spring . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr. Smith 's evidence comes down essentially to the position that Mr. Winterbone 's mental powers were not materially impaired or materially different from the position they were in before he had his fall and went into either Samuel Saye House or Haine Hospital . |