Example sentences of "come down from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard Mullan , one of the Fascists who had come down from the Chelsea headquarters , was under arrest . |
| 2 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | The volatility of the Cusqueños coupled with the increasing pressure among them of poor campesinos who had come down from the Andes to seek a better life stood in ironic contrast to the rigid panoply of the state ; a situation brought home to me on Easter Sunday . |
| 10 | Meantime , back at the Bourne , the crowd were treated to a display of power tennis from Duncan Knight who had come down from the David Lloyd Centre with Onny Parun . |
| 11 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They used to come down from the North-German , Swiss , English , American . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | came down from the clouds one day . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A professor came down from the university to investigate the project . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Huge space-age lights came down from the ceiling to flash in time to the thudding pulse of the music . |
| 23 | In 565 he came down from the islands to try and convert a Pictish king . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At Teheran airport they came down from the plane with Koreans in their hands . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Then at the appropriate moment , he unfurled a battered black umbrella , shielding his camera as he came down from the car . |
| 29 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 30 | It was as if Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments to find Christ and the disciples standing in the crowd . |