Example sentences of "come down [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | It 's come down through the years , this story . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Eye-witness Maureen Darwin , who was waiting to board one of the US-bound jumbos , said : ‘ It was as if a giant unseen hand had come down from the heavens and just lifted the planes up and across the tarmac . |
| 8 | Because then Jesus said to him , who was he talking to , let's , let's start off on the verse one after er after he had come down from the mountains , great crowds followed him that 's Jesus is n't it ? |
| 9 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |
| 10 | Many experiments were done to decide who should have responsibility for controlling the sound ; but eventually it all came down to the engineers , assisted by meters and ( most important of all ) a keen musical sense . |
| 11 | his feet came down to the knees on it |
| 12 | The vicar ‘ came down to the steps at the top of the nave , accompanied by a server with a basket of palms and we all went up and got one except J[ack] . ’ |
| 13 | came down from the clouds one day . |
| 14 | That jarring manifestation of furious technology seemed as remote and ridiculous as a dream , as silence settled down on Kielderhead and the hawk 's whistle came down from the moors . |
| 15 | In 565 he came down from the islands to try and convert a Pictish king . |
| 16 | At Christmas they always played ‘ You came down from the stars ’ and at Easter they usually played a Pastorale , and what with the roar of the traffic and the crowds of chattering shoppers or tourists it was practically impossible to distinguish the tune except in short bursts . |
| 17 | There was Lindsay like this little tremulous Pierrot ( because Lindsay was very little at the time — much thinner ) in these little white tights , and the coat which was like a little 18th century golden coat came down from the flies , if we were lucky enough to have any up there . |
| 18 | Ramapithecus was one of several primates , such as the baboons , which came down from the trees to develop terrestrial living . |
| 19 | These primates came down from the trees and gradually learned to walk upright . |
| 20 | Bats developed " send/receive " switching technology long long ago , probably millions of years before our ancestors came down from the trees . |
| 21 | Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held . |
| 22 | ‘ She was out of the oxygen tent earlier- and her temperature was coming down with the antibiotics but then when she came to … she opened her eyes and suddenly seemed to go into a panic . |
| 23 | He had lost much blood , his helm was notably dinted , and the head inside it already dazed and misty as the dusk coming down on the hills . |
| 24 | Coming down off the mountains , Matthiessen first finds that he loses the calm and joy of the transfiguration of his perception in high places and becomes a prey to irritation and a sense of desolation and purposelessness — his past experience apparently rendered hallucinatory in the face of his present sense of failure . |
| 25 | In his essay ‘ The Novelist at the Crossroads ’ , Lodge sees most British authors hesitating between , or combining in a variety of ways , the possibilities of a main road of tradition — ‘ the realist novel … coming down through the Victorians and Edwardians ’ — and alternatives offered by modernism and the developments that have followed it ( Lodge 1971 : 18 ) . |
| 26 | I thought , when I heard him coming down through the bushes , it could be no one but Tutilo . |
| 27 | I tried to stop him , but it were Mr Benedict coming down through the kitchens in such a bang and shouting for his groom that started it . ’ |
| 28 | Since the entire political strategy of his Democratic Leadership Council has been to persuade white folks that the Democratic Party no longer cares for ‘ minorities ’ and will target no particular money in their direction , Clinton has been predictably low on concrete ideas , coming down from the hills after the battle to suffocate the wounded with great cushions of blather about how ‘ we ’ have ‘ refused to confront our differences ’ and ‘ for this neglect we have all paid ’ . |
| 29 | He rang off , and it was only minutes before they heard the chug of the engine of his jeep coming down from the hills in the still of the morning . |
| 30 | Every brook coming down from the heights was swollen into a torrent , every valley river gulped these tributaries into its heart , and burst out over the narrow meadows into languid shallows , while in the centre it rushed ahead with treacherous force . |