Example sentences of "came down [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest excitement of the war for us happened when an aeroplane came down on the hill above Clove Lodge , which is just across the valley from Low Birk Hatt . |
| 2 | They finally came down on the side of 36-year-old Anne Bancroft , although she had seldom played comedy , having made her name in such powerful dramas as The Miracle Worker and The Pumpkin Eater . |
| 3 | There 's that side of things , and I hope that that is changing , alas again too slowly erm I think the Taylor report , which firmly came down on the side of more lay control of schools by parents and members of the community , put up and unanswerable case . |
| 4 | Having contemplated the pro 's and con 's Darwin came down on the side in favour of marriage . |
| 5 | They came down on the Pennines to Alston before joining the A66 and heading East for Scotch Corner . |
| 6 | She came down with the baby in her arms , took one look at Vincent , and burst into tears . |
| 7 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 8 | Just then two big wild cats came down to the shore from the mountains . |
| 9 | Water also came down to the mill from a cutting , possibly working a mill wheel . |
| 10 | Women came down to the river in groups to wash clothes and pots . |
| 11 | The sun was still hidden behind Spyglass Hill , which came down to the sea in dangerous cliffs on this side of the island . |
| 12 | They came down to the verge of the lake , and drank and drank . |
| 13 | his feet came down to the knees on it |
| 14 | Andrew Barrett , the paediatrician , came down to the department on the Thursday morning to deal with an admission , and grinned at Jack . |
| 15 | It was an enclave within the duchy lordship of Pickering , which came down to the coast at Filey Brigg in the south and at Scalby , just north of Scarborough , before continuing along the coast towards Whitby . |
| 16 | It was an enclave within the duchy lordship of Pickering , which came down to the coast at Filey Brigg in the south and at Scalby , just north of Scarborough , before continuing along the coast towards Whitby . |
| 17 | The vicar ‘ came down to the steps at the top of the nave , accompanied by a server with a basket of palms and we all went up and got one except J[ack] . ’ |
| 18 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 19 | The other came down near the village of Upper Heyford , killing its two crew members . |
| 20 | One by one , the men came down from the top of the rock , and sat with their arms around each other , out of the wind . |
| 21 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 22 | At Teheran airport they came down from the plane with Koreans in their hands . |
| 23 | It was as if Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments to find Christ and the disciples standing in the crowd . |
| 24 | George MacDonald saw the people from Strathnaver arriving at the sea : ‘ When they came down from the Strath to the sea-shore they suffered very much from want of houses . |
| 25 | In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level . |
| 26 | I was determined it was at the burn that came down by the distillery at the edge of the town . |
| 27 | The Bomber came down in the middle of morning service . ’ |
| 28 | When Isambard came down in the evening with his question , delivered with a dry , impersonal smile as though the brief upheaval in the night had never happened , Harry gave his answer with only the slightest convulsion of fear at the pit of his stomach . |
| 29 | Charity bets twenty five pounds and we came down in the car from Newmarket she had the she had the post out the light everything , now what 's what 's it going on ? |