Example sentences of "come down [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 3 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 4 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
| 5 | As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 . |
| 6 | He came down with a First and started his civil service career in the humble surroundings of the National Assistance Board . |
| 7 | Beyond the curtains , the rain came down with a sudden clatter on the roof of the Ropewalk below . |
| 8 | ‘ Yesterday morning , Doctor Livesey came down with a white flag . |
| 9 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 10 | However , setting this aside and taking parent-authorisation at face value , the high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage perceived to be casual or persistent truants . |
| 11 | The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows . |
| 12 | As the argument was refined in the course of the hearing , it emerged that the rival contentions came down to a narrow but difficult issue . |
| 13 | Following these now disregarded signs of past activity along the old path , I traversed the hillside and came down to a crumbling stone sheepfold with the roofless remains of a shepherd 's hut built into one wall . |
| 14 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 15 | She says a woman on an earlier expedition had snow blindness and as soon as she came down to a lower altitude , she was put on a drip and recovered in a few days . |
| 16 | The Argentine night came down like a blind , but , when it was too dark to ride , he seldom took a siesta , struggling instead through Martin Fierro , Don Quixote , or El Cid with the aid of a Spanish dictionary , or listening to music , mostly Mozart . |
| 17 | Most of the groceries came down from a grand shop in London but she 'd order perishable goods from her brother and then send a servant to complain of the quality . |
| 18 | When the clock struck , the preacher came down from a little room behind the platform , followed by ten or a dozen men who looked like prosperous City merchants . |
| 19 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 20 | We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees . |
| 21 | ‘ But the crucial thing is to see that budget deficit coming down on a medium term basis convincingly . |
| 22 | The rain was coming down in a solid curtain . |
| 23 | ‘ James is coming down in a little while , Christina . |
| 24 | We were , after all , in the huge personnel carrier area , with pods , shuttles and other small vehicles coming down in a steady stream , every one of them disgorging masked and costumed revellers . |
| 25 | When he reached the top , he stopped on the landing for a moment to allow his eyes to adjust ; there was illumination of a kind , coming down from a grimy skylight set into the angled ceiling , and it showed nothing much more than three old-fashioned doors and a bare wooden floor . |
| 26 | ‘ You can come down for a nice sit in me kitchen , ’ said Mrs Beavis . |
| 27 | Well it 's a question of balance I I the forty one thousand figure in my view should come down by a few thousand to reflect constraints in specific areas , I wo n't go into that now cos it 's a separate discussion later on . |
| 28 | And if I come down with a sore throat now , I 'll know who to blame . |
| 29 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 30 | ‘ … unfortunately , ’ Michele went on , ‘ I have n't a clue as to where Lucia 's secret hiding-place might be , so it comes down to a straightforward search . ’ |