Example sentences of "[verb] down from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 2 | Adam got down from Goblander and said , |
| 3 | Invisible earnings for the month are projected to have been £100million , while their contribution in October has been revised down from £300million to the same level . |
| 4 | Neighbours had travelled down from Gloucestershire to join in the celebration : |
| 5 | To want to be a millionaire was coarse , even ridiculous ; money somehow floated down from Daddy or was waiting in a will at the end of an estate — that , though rarely the reality , was a prevailing view , and rather attractive in its unworldly dimension . |
| 6 | Sir Drefoldwyn drifts down from Llanfair with a train for Welshpool in Spring . |
| 7 | The agronomists ’ reports on the spring-sowing campaign reveal a long list of mainly unfulfilled bureaucratic resolutions passed down from Moscow . |
| 8 | What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit . |
| 9 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 10 | In climbing down from Mount Olympus and passing over these concentric circles , you can imagine you are tracing the path of magma rising at the mid ocean ridges , eventually to spew through vents , producing large quantities of mineral ore . |
| 11 | Linda Stapleton , who moved down from Middlesex 10 years ago , and is secretary of the North Devon community health council in Barnstaple , agrees : ‘ Services down here are generally very good , but you have to go further and choice can be limited . |
| 12 | Mrs Grant has decided to stand down from HIE , where she has been on the board since its inception two years ago , because of increasing work commitments . |
| 13 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , our base rates have come down from 12% ( they never officially went to the 15% level announced on Black Wednesday ) to 7% and should fall further . |
| 15 | The farmers going to market had come down from Barking and Ringshall and those places , and on the rough owd country roads they managed ; but as soon as they got to the tarred road in Needham street they had to stop . |
| 16 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 17 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 18 | One day Jesus said to his friends : I am the Bread of Life I am the living Bread which has come down from heaven Anyone who eats this bread Shall live for . |
| 19 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 20 | The shares have come down from 795p since the toxic waste issue blew up . |
| 21 | His girlfriend , Hazel , had come down from Leeds for the weekend . |
| 22 | Forties-style crepe evening dresses down from £309 to £217 . |
| 23 | Red tartan maternity dresses down from £34.99 to £26.99 . |
| 24 | Washed silk button-through flared dresses down from £99.95 to £79.95 , corded lace dresses down from £99.95 to Pounds 49.97 . |
| 25 | Tiny hummingbirds fly down from New England into Louisiana and then take off on a non-stop sea-crossing of five hundred miles across the Bay of Mexico to the Yucatan Peninsula and the warm jungles of Central and South America . |
| 26 | Trading down from fillet steak to mince or sausages , from Cooper 's Oxford marmalade to supermarket own brand or from real coffee to soft-focus Gold Blend is as much a symbol of the 90s as lengthening dole queues and expanding cardboard box- dwelling communities . |
| 27 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 28 | He was glad of the distraction , having earlier received a wire from Hilary who , at the last minute and in spite of cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die promises , found it impossible , after all , to come down from London for the first night of Peter Pan . |
| 29 | Early in his time as prime minister he asked Ramsey to come down from York so that they could meet . |
| 30 | Onomatopoeic effects are generally of this kind , as we see from the opening sentence of D. H. Lawrence 's Odour of Chrysanthemums ( see 3.4 ) : The small locomotive engine , Number 4 , came clanking , stumbling down from Selston with seven full wagons . |