Example sentences of "come down from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ) |
| 8 | The shares have come down from 795p since the toxic waste issue blew up . |
| 9 | His girlfriend , Hazel , had come down from Leeds for the weekend . |
| 10 | Cecilia went down the steps at West Hampstead station and stood on the lefthand platform waiting for the train to come down from Kilburn . |
| 11 | He was glad of the distraction , having earlier received a wire from Hilary who , at the last minute and in spite of cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die promises , found it impossible , after all , to come down from London for the first night of Peter Pan . |
| 12 | Early in his time as prime minister he asked Ramsey to come down from York so that they could meet . |
| 13 | ‘ The first time it came to life was New Year 's Eve , when lots of my parent 's friends came down from Stockholm . |
| 14 | It came down from Scotland . |
| 15 | Nine priests came down from Oxford and tried to lay the troubled soul to rest in a nearby pool . |
| 16 | He went , finally , on a beautiful September day in 1949 , some three months after he came down from Oxford . |
| 17 | I was interviewed by the Sudan Agent in London who gave me lunch at his club , and told me I would be called before a selection board when I came down from Oxford . |
| 18 | ‘ That time we came down from Winfarthing-Fersfield , after seeing your old man . ’ |
| 19 | We had nine people for Christmas lunch — my mother and father-in-law came down from Anglesey and the kids and Glenys and myself and some friends . |
| 20 | He came down from Edinburgh , in his twenties . |
| 21 | ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you . |
| 22 | Laura came down from London on the long-distance bus . |
| 23 | Ben Jonson came down from London , and cried in the church . |
| 24 | In my case the question of chaperonage came up with regard to the O. U. D. S. At that time all the women 's parts in the O. U. D. S. plays were taken by professional actresses who came down from London for the rehearsals and performances — and very glamorous they were too — Peggy Ashcroft among them ! |
| 25 | One couple came down from London to the art gallery and have seen some very interesting works . |
| 26 | Amongst Robins 's acquaintances was Robert ( Bob ) Harris , whom Robins had got to know when he came down from Keele and worked with him on Circuit . |
| 27 | John 's father came down from Cheltenham to see her , grieving and concerned for her future . |
| 28 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 29 | She came down from Olympus and made love to him while he slept . |
| 30 | ‘ Last night two Indians in a pick-up came down from Chilete . ’ |