Example sentences of "come down from the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead .
2 Apart from her father and her brother Niall who had come down from the watchtower , she was the tallest person present , and her fine clothes lent her a new self-confidence .
3 For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform .
4 Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park .
5 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 …
6 You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all .
7 They used to come down from the North-German , Swiss , English , American .
8 The pilot survey should be the crucial stage at which the surveyor is forced to come down from the ivory tower and communicate with the respondents .
9 One by one , the men came down from the top of the rock , and sat with their arms around each other , out of the wind .
10 The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up .
11 This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet .
12 A professor came down from the university to investigate the project .
13 D'Aubigny , however , came down from the dais and shook Agrippa 's hand vigorously before allowing the doctor to introduce both my master and myself .
14 Huge space-age lights came down from the ceiling to flash in time to the thudding pulse of the music .
15 He could see by the dark light that came down from the night sky , a sky that glowed with vivid city lights , that on stands in nearby cages other eagles were listening to his story and staring at him silently .
16 At Teheran airport they came down from the plane with Koreans in their hands .
17 Then at the appropriate moment , he unfurled a battered black umbrella , shielding his camera as he came down from the car .
18 He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain .
19 It was as if Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments to find Christ and the disciples standing in the crowd .
20 So we both came down from the mountain .
21 Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved
22 Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom .
23 He came down from the knoll and seemed to be searching for somebody .
24 And Moses came down from the mount bearing the two tablets of stone .
25 Towards noon , the Lord Hasan 2nd , on whose name be peace , wearing a white garment and a white turban , came down from the castle , approached the pulpit from the right side and in the most perfect manner ascended it .
26 He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor .
27 In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level .
28 Most of the owners came down from the Clubhouse to watch the saddling of the runners in the Jockey Club Race Train Stakes , and all the sportier of them wore the rosettes .
29 Cornelius and Tuppe came down from the hill .
30 As Roberto was coming down from the top of his back-swing , the spectators leaned forward on to the fencing causing a crack like thunder .
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