Example sentences of "[vb past] come down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 2 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
| 3 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 4 | Pancevski himself appeared to come down on the side of the Serbian position by stressing repeatedly that political pluralism " must be based on socialist orientation and the federal structure " and asserting : " The LCY finds unacceptable the thesis according to which the essence and form of political pluralism are reduced to a classic multiparty system alone . " |
| 5 | The rain certainly did come down during the night , it was so loud on the window the noise made it difficult to sleep . |
| 6 | The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood . |
| 7 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
| 8 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 9 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 10 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 11 | Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held . |
| 12 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 13 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
| 14 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 15 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
| 16 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
| 17 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
| 18 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 19 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 20 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 21 | After more anxious discussion , the woman who had come down with the leaves , bony and greyish of skin with her hair wrapped in a yellow turban , poured half , then all the small bottle of gin into the steaming mixture and ceremoniously put it in the centre of the floor . |
| 22 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 23 | Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her . |
| 24 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 25 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 26 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 27 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 28 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 29 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |
| 30 | It is perfectly clear that long before the procession came into sight , long before the procession had formed , these people in the Markets in their desire to be offended had come down from the side streets and had taken great trouble to he offended , and not only were prepared to be offended but were prepared to throw missiles , stones and other weapons … |