Example sentences of "come down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whiting 's or Whitting 's as it is sometimes spelt has a name that seems to have come down through generations , and one authority tempts to suggest that it may be of Saxon period . |
| 2 | A great remedy in croup for sensitive children who have been exposed to cold air or dry cold winds and have come down with croup the following morning ( see also Aconite and Spongia particularly ) ; worse ( < ) morning and evening . |
| 3 | In tracing the antiquity of Langridge we find that this manor has come down to Robin Wood via Henry Golding , Barber , Leveson , Whornes , Watson , Melford and Roger Bavent who held it with John de Langereche and finally back to Adam de Bavent during the reign of Edward I. Robin Wood died 14th July 1738 and is buried in Hailing Church . |
| 4 | Just two years later , rates had come down to $1.57/word . |
| 5 | He related how he had come down to London and systematically searched through the various agencies that might have employed Elsie , how he had tracked down Mrs Wilson and had gone to see her . |
| 6 | Some months later , when she judged that things would have quietened down , she had come down to London and had set about re-establishing her business . |
| 7 | And now you 've come down to London with no accommodation apart from that grotty little hotel , and signed a lease on a shop you 've never seen before , with no independent survey , no up-to-date trading figures and no solicitor to check the terms of the agreement ? ’ |
| 8 | I wo n't be the only person from East Anglian that 's come down to London over the weekend to shop , to stay with relatives or friends and take advantage of London 's shopping . |
| 9 | It has come down to personalities and Julia is very disturbed by it all . |
| 10 | In contrast to the costly and sophisticated technology employed by the major companies were simple but effective ‘ home studios ’ costing under £1,000 by 1985 , the average price of four-track recording machines had come down to £500 and over 20,000 had been sold in Britain . |
| 11 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 12 | With a little sigh , a feeling of having come down to earth again , Merrill went to find Richard . |
| 13 | Almost dancing on air , Laura had barely come down to earth when she found herself sitting beside him in a small riverside restaurant . |
| 14 | ‘ I was very happy when I learned I had got a place at Oxford and my mum still has n't come down to earth yet . |
| 15 | I do n't think I 've come down to earth since the day I met her . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 17 | Oh they 've come down in price from when I 'm talking about , when they first come first out , they were quite a lot , a lot more |
| 18 | CD players have come down in price , but the discs themselves are still about thirty per cent dearer than in America . |
| 19 | The decision had come down in favour of illusion : the President 's dream of triumphant new diplomacy and the hostages home . |
| 20 | Both wheat and barley spot and new crop prices have come down in consequence . |
| 21 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , our base rates have come down from 12% ( they never officially went to the 15% level announced on Black Wednesday ) to 7% and should fall further . |
| 23 | The farmers going to market had come down from Barking and Ringshall and those places , and on the rough owd country roads they managed ; but as soon as they got to the tarred road in Needham street they had to stop . |
| 24 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 25 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 26 | One day Jesus said to his friends : I am the Bread of Life I am the living Bread which has come down from heaven Anyone who eats this bread Shall live for . |
| 27 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 28 | The shares have come down from 795p since the toxic waste issue blew up . |
| 29 | His girlfriend , Hazel , had come down from Leeds for the weekend . |
| 30 | He still liked to come down for meals but often could n't last out and would leave his food and return . |