Example sentences of "[vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Neighbours had travelled down from Gloucestershire to join in the celebration : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ) |
| 12 | The shares have come down from 795p since the toxic waste issue blew up . |
| 13 | His girlfriend , Hazel , had come down from Leeds for the weekend . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 15 | Williams could also be on the mark with Capricorn Note in the other 450 metres open , though Dawn Milligan 's latest acquisition , Valentinos Joy , which has moved down from Scotland , trialled in 26.60 secs ( going 30 fast ) . |
| 16 | MONEY should not be drawn down from members of the Gooda Walker syndicates at Lloyd 's of London ‘ in the face of breach of trust allegations and maybe fraud ’ in Syndicate 290 , said Michael Burton QC in court yesterday . |
| 17 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 18 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 19 | Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug . |
| 20 | What do they say , those bloody know-alls whose wisdom is handed down from generation to generation ? |
| 21 | Dyeing is considered a science , whose secrets are handed down from generation to generation , and when the dyer is working , only other dyers may speak to him . |
| 22 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 23 | TRADITION ( SOCIAL ) — refers to the values , standards , beliefs , sentiments and , in general , the ways of thinking in a social group , which have been handed down from generation to generation . |
| 24 | So what if she has only three frocks to her name ( ‘ cuts down on the washin' ’ ) Or if her ‘ fur ’ coat looks like it was handed down from Wilma Flintstone . |
| 25 | The self-destructive streak in Scottish football is a legacy that has been handed down from Hughie Gallacher in the '20s to Mo Johnston in the present day , but it finds its most bloated expression in Slim Jim , a player whose massive reputation was built on his slender athletic frame but whose downfall has been a rake 's progress of late nights , seedy bars and relentless beer bellies . |
| 26 | Cricket lore was handed down from Yorkshire dad to lad , so much so that in the end the family history itself was the enemy . |
| 27 | Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia . |
| 28 | It was in fact , a closed shop , and those working practices and skills were handed down from mother to daughter . |
| 29 | The bone-setting power is often handed down from father to son . |
| 30 | The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son . |