Example sentences of "come down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Erm he 's just come down with this rotten old cough and cold again and I was going to take him to the doctor 's but then they do n't like it giving them anything and I do n't like giving him anything so
2 ‘ Unfortunately , in all the confusion of evidence , it seems to have come down to one brother 's word against the other . ’
3 In his memoirs the former president writes , ‘ At the beginning of my second term , Congress , the bureaucracy and the media were still working in concert to maintain the ideas and ideology of the traditional Eastern liberal establishment that had come down to 1973 through the New Deal , the New Frontier , and the Great Society . ’
4 Well there seems to be a slight mismatch there , and perhaps some of this mismatch is also a part of , with the confusion I have of the various shifting policy of York , in term in terms of their requirement , there has been in the in the not too recent recent past York were saying they had an additional requirement beyond need which they termed their concealed requirement , although it might not be a concealed dwellings , as we might otherwise describe them , of one thousand six hundred , and that has progressively come down to seven hundred as presented at this enquiry .
5 I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me .
6 It may well be the same story that has come down in two different strands of tradition .
7 What 's happened is that policy makers 've shifted the emphasis instead of protecting tariffs they 're protected using long long tariff barriers right which are a lot more invisible to er , to G A T T do n't come under erm G A T T regulations , what those tariffs do nevertheless , tariffs have , have come down in manufactured goods right , erm , since the second world war when G A T T was er , was established .
8 Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged .
9 Since March 1990 , the number of patients waiting more than two years has come down by 47 per cent .
10 The optimum completion time has come down by one minute to 11 minutes and more time is being allowed on the roads and tracks section before the cross country .
11 right , erm Could you , you said that your payroll costs had come down by five million that 's figure is it ?
12 It has come down from 52 per cent .
13 The money 's been pouring on to Gala 's Image , odds have come down from 25 to 1 .
14 May I remind him that inflation has come down from 10.9 to 3.7 per cent. , that interest rates have been cut by 4.5 percentage points and that we have the lowest level of inflation for 25 years — below that of west Germany .
15 Well this all had coal and , and the , the chimneys want wanted sweeping and if you did n't sweep your chimney regular the soot used to come down onto this water into , into this er boiler .
16 Why he decided to come down on one player 's side against another is beyond comprehension .
17 job to get out the house for a little while and she usually gets granny up , cos granny have to come down on one of those chairs .
18 It is no longer to come down on one side or other of the fence as the entire poem was so clearly designed to do , but to say following the ways of God will mean this .
19 Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’
20 Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’
21 Not wishing to come down on either side , the planners say it 's a nice fence but high fences near roads need permission .
22 If necessary more than five trials can be used if the level of anxiety fails to come down on any one specific target .
23 It may go on after half term because she may not be able to come down on those two days , if that happens then I 'll have other back up material for them
24 He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens .
25 At that time I had some interest in advertising and marketing , so I decided to get people I knew in some of the big stores to come down to one of our towns .
26 The IMF cast doubt on budget expectations relating to inflation , forecast by the government to come down to 4.5 per cent but which the IMF believed would be at least 5.5 per cent , and on the ability of the government to cut public spending sufficiently .
27 And you 've got to come down to eleven for that .
28 We are also told that wage increases have to come down to German levels , and there has been some movement in that direction .
29 ‘ Would you like to come down to Carinish Court for a few days ? ’
30 The boat came down between two waves , and Grace quickly got her oars out .
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