Example sentences of "came down [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The little plane came down at the old airport , south of the town . |
3 | Then Handlebar 's cock suddenly jumped into the air , flew the distance that separated it from its rival and came down on the darker bird with its neck arched and talons open . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Beyond the curtains , the rain came down with a sudden clatter on the roof of the Ropewalk below . |
6 | ‘ Yesterday morning , Doctor Livesey came down with a white flag . |
7 | He took in Marcus 's absence , went upstairs and came down with the pale boy behind him . |
8 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
9 | So Morag when she came down , came down for the whole week . |
10 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
11 | 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 . |
12 | The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | She says a woman on an earlier expedition had snow blindness and as soon as she came down to a lower altitude , she was put on a drip and recovered in a few days . |
16 | He came down to the front door with me . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
19 | The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | The smells that came down from the higher ground might tell him something . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
27 | We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | A bird came down in the topmost branches of the tree in which the cat lay in wait . |