Example sentences of "[adv] come down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | With me coming from the North of England , everybody is pretty reserved up there at the best of times , so coming down to London and meeting Angie with an American accent and flitting around the room and speaking in a loud voice all the time , it was amazing . |
2 | In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth . |
3 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
4 | White duly came down to London from his home in Wolverhampton — he is the senior member of a remarkable quartet of Elvis Gordon , Dennis Stewart and the banned Kerrith Brown who have all won medals at world level , yet all train in the back room of an Edwardian bath house . |
5 | You 're not to come down until baby ! |
6 | 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 . |
7 | It will just come down to organization really wo n't it ? |
8 | Hazel did not come down to London for the weekend . |
9 | Cos mummy only just come down for breakfast . |
10 | Despite the fact that the 486 based PC 's are gradually coming down in price the evidence suggests that the 386 is still the preferred entry level machine . |
11 | When Austin 's views are challenged , Petrey almost always comes down on Austin 's side ( the one obvious exception is that Petrey , unlike Austin , believes that speech-act theory is as relevant to literature , and to written language in general , as it is to spoken language ) . |
12 | He still comes down to walks down |
13 | But it was in talking to a fellow tourist at the airport on the return journey that we really came down to earth . |
14 | With its current penchant for clamping down on perceived violations of its copyright , AT&T 's Unix System Laboratories Inc is now coming down on Unix Solutions for its use of the Unix logo in its company name . |
15 | ‘ I was very happy when I learned I had got a place at Oxford and my mum still has n't come down to earth yet . |
16 | He rarely even came down from town . ’ |
17 | I know he would regularly come down to Low Birk Hatt — and , indeed , Sleetburn when we were there — with his violin , and Mother used to accompany him on our organ . |
18 | He did n't come down to rehearsals too much after that . |
19 | … There 's more of public relations in this job than probably — that does n't come down in print . |
20 | For me it 's not even a matter of specific issues such as Aids and homelessness , it simply comes down to people 's relationships with each other . ’ |
21 | If you took a living body and cut it up into ever smaller pieces , you would eventually come down to specks of pure protoplasm . |
22 | An attack to the utmost — offensive a l'outrance — was to be made into Lorraine by the First and Second armies , while the Third and Fifth armies , on their left , would take the offensive north of Metz or , if the Germans did indeed come down through Belgium , strike them in flank . |
23 | ‘ when they lived in Little Russell Street , in Bloomsbury , Mrs Livesey would sometimes come down to tea with my wife . ’ |
24 | Then come down to Wally 's tomorrow afternoon |
25 | It then comes down to affordability . |
26 | The King addresses him in verse to start with , but then comes down to Parolles ' level in prose , the medium in which Lafeu and Diana also address him , recognizing his inferior ethos ( All 's Well that Ends Well , V.iii.238ff . ) . |
27 | On her first evening at Thomas 's house , after the shopping spree , she had shyly come down to dinner in one of her new dresses . |
28 | Almost dancing on air , Laura had barely come down to earth when she found herself sitting beside him in a small riverside restaurant . |
29 | For example taking out the forward looking infra-red , infra-red search and track , taking out the the M I D S , the multiple information distribution system and certain aspects of the er defensive aids , to see what impact that would have and we found that if we removed any one of those erm then we would either come down to parity against potential threat or possibly er inferiority and that was really the supporting evidence to retain the full capability . |