Example sentences of "came down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The little plane came down at the old airport , south of the town . |
| 3 | Heliopsis snatched a dramatic late verdict under George Duffield in the Tennents Special Handicap as the curtain came down on the 1992 Scottish Flat racing programme . |
| 4 | Then Handlebar 's cock suddenly jumped into the air , flew the distance that separated it from its rival and came down on the darker bird with its neck arched and talons open . |
| 5 | Two czarist officers , bulky in their comic-opera uniforms , solemnly played Russian roulette , each downing a drink every time the firing pin of their revolver came down on an empty chamber . |
| 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 | He took in Marcus 's absence , went upstairs and came down with the pale boy behind him . |
| 10 | The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear . |
| 11 | So Morag when she came down , came down for the whole week . |
| 12 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 20 | Cathery also added : " Lewis and Cannon ( the branch secretary ) came down to the Central Office and I let [ them ] see all the books , cheque book , bank passbook etc. ; in fact all they wanted to see . |
| 21 | It all came down to the last throw the lady who came second had three houses on Park Lane and Mayfair but I threw an 11 and sailed right past ! ’ |
| 22 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
| 23 | The Land Rover came down to the main road between Lochgilphead and Lochgair . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It came down like an oily green avalanche , piling up into a mountain of folds , but no one bothered about it because the sun shone through the dusty , cobwebbed windows and made Jekub glow . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 29 | My talk with Quintin had more content since he said that if another peer came down from the Upper House he would withdraw from public life whether he was in the Upper or Lower House . |
| 30 | The smells that came down from the higher ground might tell him something . |