Example sentences of "come down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | I think that 's probably come down through the years and things are still that way for musicians : get them as cheap as you can and never give them the credit that they deserve . ’ |
5 | It 's come down through the years , this story . |
6 | This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ . |
7 | A glacier stone in the churchyard is also mentioned in the Domesday Book and is believed to have come down during the Ice Age . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
15 | We 've come down to the wine |
16 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
21 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
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 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
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 | Now there was some dispute over whether Berlin or Bonn should be the capital , they 've come down on the side of Berlin , but is that dispute settled now ? |
26 | Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her . |
27 | The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood . |
28 | This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years . |
29 | Emulating its action against Hirac Inc in the US , Sparc International , the evangelising supporters group for Sun Microsystems Inc 's RISC has come down like a ton of bricks on a small UK start-up trying to carve a living out of the Sparc-compatible space . |
30 | Nemesis had still come down like the wolf on the fold . |