Example sentences of "come down to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We 've come down to the wine |
| 8 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
| 13 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
| 14 | They 're nice old people , and I think it would be good for Mrs Richards to come down to the village more , and be part of Santa Barbara . ’ |
| 15 | I run to the house with Mrs Gould and we get everybody — my mum and dad and the other guests — to come down to the river . |
| 16 | ‘ In that case I must ask you both to come down to the station with me . |
| 17 | Meantime , he reminded himself , since the entire company was now assembled , he had better be about sending off Father Boniface 's errand-boy to find Aldhelm at Upton among his sheep , and ask him to come down to the abbey when his work for the day was over , and pick out his shadowy Benedictine from among a number now complete . |
| 18 | I remember my father used to say that even those experiences that take us out of ourselves — the ‘ mountain-top ’ experiences — can never keep us from having to come down to the valley of ordinary existence . |
| 19 | Twomey sent old Lizzie with the summons : " Mr Twomey says , Sir Dermot says , for ye to come down to the morning room — the young gentlemen are here . " |
| 20 | To get off my frustration I used to come down to the track and run it out . |
| 21 | Well it , it I expected that he would have to go and I should have to manage on my own and it was quite er er a , a way to come down to the shop . |
| 22 | Because often I would be alone with her up there : not like other children , having to come down to the drawing-room at five o'clock , brought by nurse , on their best behaviour . |
| 23 | Want to come down to the canteen ? |
| 24 | So if the mover of composite eight would come down and standing in the of the Northern Region , to be seconded by Lancashire , but as we 're now formally seconding the er the , the formally seconders will not be required to come down to the front , but the movers will . |
| 25 | ‘ Given that I was one of them it came down to a choice between Gower and Gatting . |
| 26 | ‘ It came down to a willingness to pay for it . ’ |
| 27 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 28 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 29 | But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization . |
| 30 | The next time she came down to the village was after a day or two . |