Example sentences of "come down [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 3 | With a little sigh , a feeling of having come down to earth again , Merrill went to find Richard . |
| 4 | Almost dancing on air , Laura had barely come down to earth when she found herself sitting beside him in a small riverside restaurant . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | I do n't think I 've come down to earth since the day I met her . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | CD players have come down in price , but the discs themselves are still about thirty per cent dearer than in America . |
| 10 | The decision had come down in favour of illusion : the President 's dream of triumphant new diplomacy and the hostages home . |
| 11 | Both wheat and barley spot and new crop prices have come down in consequence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ) |
| 14 | Da says he 's going to come down for tea with — ’ |
| 15 | He used to come down to school in the afternoon sometimes , to stay a while talking generally , and I found his visits very helpful . |
| 16 | You 've got to come down to reality and plan out your life , look at where you 're coming from and where you 're going . |
| 17 | But , to come down to earth again , Schott 's glass ceramics are just as much at home in the kitchen , where extremes of temperature leave our ‘ Ceran ’ hobs cold . |
| 18 | The boat hull and light aluminium masks and white roller jibs have to come down in tone to a light grey , and the varnished wood spars have to be darker ochre than those at the top . |
| 19 | Outside their refuge the rain began to come down in earnest . |
| 20 | What you do not want to be told is erm sorry you 've got to come down in person to our offices , they 're in Southend by the way , erm please bring along your passport certificate , D N A chart , and chit signed by erm the spiritual leaders of at least three merger major world religions . |
| 21 | Erm they say they would not be willing to change their valuation , because that was the valuation er come to by the District Values Office from , so they are not willing to , to come down in price . |
| 22 | When all this has been said , it is still very difficult to see how the Divisional Court in R. v. LTE ex parte GLC managed to come down in favour of the GLC in the face of the unanimous decision of the Law Lords . |
| 23 | You 're not to come down until baby ! |
| 24 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 25 | The miners tramped up the valleys in the morning , worked all day and came down at night . |
| 26 | when you came down at dinner time , when you came charging into the common room . |
| 27 | A student at Lashan Gliding Centre was badly hurt once when the glider lifted off the ground and came down on top of him as he walked by the nose . |
| 28 | Her hand came down on top of a large bunch of them and she felt a sudden stinging pain . |
| 29 | Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder . |
| 30 | ‘ Saunders came down on top of him . |