Example sentences of "come down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 2 | With a little sigh , a feeling of having come down to earth again , Merrill went to find Richard . |
| 3 | Almost dancing on air , Laura had barely come down to earth when she found herself sitting beside him in a small riverside restaurant . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | I do n't think I 've come down to earth since the day I met her . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 7 | He used to come down to school in the afternoon sometimes , to stay a while talking generally , and I found his visits very helpful . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Said everything came down to sex , did n't he ? ’ |
| 11 | I just slipped out , walked down a corridor , out through a side exit and came down to home . |
| 12 | Henrietta came down to lunch , still shivering slightly , in a sweater and jeans , and refused to discuss her experience , telling Jacqueline not to be bloody silly when she asked if she 'd seen crocodiles . |
| 13 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 14 | When we came down to breakfast the other guests were so absorbed in some news in the morning papers that they forgot the usual ragging of newlyweds . |
| 15 | His mother would find him still at it when she came down to breakfast in the morning . |
| 16 | One morning , Mother came down to breakfast . |
| 17 | The next day , when Edward came down to breakfast , Gordon Lang , the Archbishop of Canterbury , was waiting for him . |
| 18 | WHEN HE CAME down to breakfast next morning Wycliffe found the hall full of suitcases ; the conference was breaking up . |
| 19 | It could n't be left there for the old lady to find when she came down to breakfast . |
| 20 | He was already gone when she came down to breakfast , which did n't surprise her at all . |
| 21 | Back at home again I came down to breakfast one morning scratching my head and my hair started to fall out . |
| 22 | When he came down to Hillmarden that Friday night he did not , mercifully , refer to her mid-week sortie . |
| 23 | Carolyn came down to tea next day . |
| 24 | ‘ It came down to personality , ’ he says . |
| 25 | But it was in talking to a fellow tourist at the airport on the return journey that we really came down to earth . |
| 26 | The young New Zealander came down to earth with a bruising bump in the World Cup and still has much to learn , but he remains potentially an all-rounder of world class . |
| 27 | Having survived ten days in the Caribbean unbeaten and relatively unscathed , in St Kitts we came down to earth with a large thump and were soundly thrashed by the island 's powerful side , which contained several hard hitting batsmen . |
| 28 | Of course I came down to earth on my next round . |
| 29 | I came down to earth again . |
| 30 | Once upon a time , an angel came down to earth to test the charity of man . |