Example sentences of "had come down [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood . |
| 2 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 3 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 4 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
| 5 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
| 6 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
| 7 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 8 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
| 9 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
| 10 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 11 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 12 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 13 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 14 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 15 | Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her . |
| 16 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 17 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 18 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 19 | Apart from her father and her brother Niall who had come down from the watchtower , she was the tallest person present , and her fine clothes lent her a new self-confidence . |
| 20 | It is perfectly clear that long before the procession came into sight , long before the procession had formed , these people in the Markets in their desire to be offended had come down from the side streets and had taken great trouble to he offended , and not only were prepared to be offended but were prepared to throw missiles , stones and other weapons … |
| 21 | For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform . |
| 22 | Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park . |