Example sentences of "come down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you come down and see me in my office , please , Dorothy ? ’ |
| 2 | A quick but careful briefing would , in most cases , prevent incidents such as someone lifting a wing without first checking that the other wing will not come down on to another glider 's canopy . |
| 3 | Unless the wing-tips are weighted down with a tyre , one wing lifting off the ground means that the other will come down on to another glider with expensive results . |
| 4 | How did it come down ? |
| 5 | Further clashes were averted after Mike Snell , the district council engineer , gave an assurance that the trees would not come down until the issue was resolved in court . |
| 6 | But they will be allowed to buy stakes of up to 15 per cent and after five years the barriers will come down . |
| 7 | Inflation will come down through the use of high interest rates , as it has in the past . |
| 8 | But for those with loans over £30,000 where there is no tax relief , it is certainly worth considering paying off some of the mortgage - particularly since there is no clear indication of when rates might come down . |
| 9 | It may all come down to Clark if Oakland are to be kept at bay . |
| 10 | Did it really not come down to a fear of the knife ? |
| 11 | Aye , you did , but you see , there 's this girl in my house and she wo n't leave and I 'm asking you if you 'll come down and shift her . |
| 12 | He d have these two hideous , fat , white women up there and when he 'd finished he 'd come down to play football in the street . |
| 13 | He did n't come down to rehearsals too much after that . |
| 14 | Sometimes I 'd come down to see people and do things , but only when I wanted to . |
| 15 | In West Berlin the huge crowd at the Rathaus , some of whom had crossed from the East to listen to the speeches , reserved their greatest enthusiasm for the former Social Democrat leader , Chancellor and Mayor of West Berlin , Mr Willy Brandt , who told them , to wild cheers : ‘ Berlin will live and the Berlin Wall will come down . ’ |
| 16 | But for this to happen … the government should come down heavily on piracy , which militates against domestic development . |
| 17 | Next time it might come down over the centre of a large city . ’ |
| 18 | A quick straw poll of parents revealed that the little children are thrilled to get their letters marked Santaland or Reindeerland , and believe that Santa really does come down the chimney while they 're asleep . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the old building will come down . |
| 20 | ‘ Why do n't you come down to our office and have a look ? ’ |
| 21 | How many businesses that went up in the 1980s might now come down ? |
| 22 | Now he told me he wanted to end it with Susan , and he begged my help and would I come down to New Orleans . ’ |
| 23 | In one of his books , David Jenkins speaks of a cartoon which shows God sitting on a cloud looking very cross and saying : ‘ You love one another or I 'll come down there and thump you . ’ |
| 24 | Well , he does come down — not to thump us but to love us in Jesus , to teach us the Christian way , and to take our sins and failures to the cross and to rise again in triumph for us all . |
| 25 | Mam said they 'd ordered two daily papers , and they must come down to collect those . ’ |
| 26 | Ask if you can come down for a day or two . |
| 27 | Thought I might as well come down here . ’ |
| 28 | — Bet that bloke on the fruit-machines did n't come down here in a Rover ! ’ |
| 29 | He would come down for the weekend before and see to the final arrangements , of various things . |
| 30 | Rents this year will come down a further 15 to 20 per cent , he says , stabilising next year . |