Example sentences of "come down from the [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The volatility of the Cusqueños coupled with the increasing pressure among them of poor campesinos who had come down from the Andes to seek a better life stood in ironic contrast to the rigid panoply of the state ; a situation brought home to me on Easter Sunday . |
| 2 | A professor came down from the university to investigate the project . |
| 3 | Huge space-age lights came down from the ceiling to flash in time to the thudding pulse of the music . |
| 4 | In 565 he came down from the islands to try and convert a Pictish king . |
| 5 | Ramapithecus was one of several primates , such as the baboons , which came down from the trees to develop terrestrial living . |
| 6 | Most of the owners came down from the Clubhouse to watch the saddling of the runners in the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes , and all the sportier of them wore the rosettes . |
| 7 | Even the railway has charm as it curves on a fine viaduct where the River Finnan comes down from the mountains to enter Loch Shiel , a long and narrow sheet of water passing through high portals to reach green pastures after a serpentine course of seventeen miles . |