Example sentences of "come down to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Just two years later , rates had come down to $1.57/word . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It has come down to personalities and Julia is very disturbed by it all . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 10 | With a little sigh , a feeling of having come down to earth again , Merrill went to find Richard . |
| 11 | Almost dancing on air , Laura had barely come down to earth when she found herself sitting beside him in a small riverside restaurant . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | I do n't think I 've come down to earth since the day I met her . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 15 | ‘ As you 're a fisherman , Mr Leland , if you 'd care to come down to Devon during this present season I 'd be most happy to offer you unlimited fishing . ’ |
| 16 | He used to come down to school in the afternoon sometimes , to stay a while talking generally , and I found his visits very helpful . |
| 17 | Then lie suggested that they might get Arthur Pugh , the moderate leader of the steelworkers who was that year 's chairman of the TUC , to come down to Chequers for tea and an exploratory talk . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We very much wanted him to come down to Merstham again when the weather was better , so that we could drive him round the country . |
| 21 | Well , when did we ever ask you , the labour and liberal vice , to come down to Westminster with us , Mr Chairman . |
| 22 | Mr Chairman I feel a bit like an aircraft that 's to come down to Leeds er er Bradford Airport rather than Teeside at the present moment . |
| 23 | Said everything came down to sex , did n't he ? ’ |
| 24 | On the last occasion he had seen his mother , which was when he came down to Plumford for lunch at Easter , he had thought that to all outward appearances she was exactly the same as she had always been . |
| 25 | And then I came down to Kerry after my operations because I was er for my feet , I had to get them amputated because For the hardening of the arteries |
| 26 | The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one . |
| 27 | No no , we just er came down to Personnel Office and |
| 28 | He came down to Highbury on crutches , so grave was the extent of his injury . |
| 29 | I just slipped out , walked down a corridor , out through a side exit and came down to home . |
| 30 | And then , in the , I think it was the June , I came down to Colchester , and as soon as I got to Colchester the old adjutant nurse said oh you , going for a a B one qualification , and I had to go to Colchester to the Ordnance , it , it , it was an Ordnance workshops I suppose that was what it was . |