Example sentences of "comes down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And with that the curtain comes down on the Gospel .
2 A stream comes down on the east side and disappears into a cave entrance admitting to a passage below the track where , on the west side , it is joined underground from an alternative pothole entrance .
3 When that white light comes down at the end
4 Lucker comes down to the water 's edge .
5 Again , it comes down to the concept of institutionalisation and the harmful effects on mentally handicapped people living with large numbers of other handicapped people as opposed to integrating freely with the community at large .
6 Ultimately , much of the debate comes down to the question of choice , the word that the Tories have so successfully colonised in rhetoric and so often failed to deliver in reality .
7 We also recognise that there is a tremendous problem for deferred pensioners in achieving reasonable transfer values er er er it 's a massive problem for them , even where they could find perhaps something to do with that money and a scheme that would do them better , not always , because there , there are people that give bad advice , but there are some that go into it very thoroughly and when it comes down to the bit the transfer value they receive makes it im practically impossible for them to do it .
8 So the next night this m the man comes down to the shore and here was two men with a rowing boat .
9 And that comes down to the individual .
10 Essentially , creativity , as Coleridge sees it , comes down to the ability to perceive the whole picture .
11 I think the basic problem is erm it goes back further than that and it comes down to the organisation that my colleague here belongs to .
12 Bullfighting may be about grace and beauty , a poetic dance between man and beast , but it all comes down to the kill .
13 erm But it basically comes down to the attitude that people have , if the government was , or whoever owns the forest , private ownership , or whatever , controls what the loggers do , I mean it 's their forest it 's up to them to control what the loggers do and do n't do , and whether they let cultivators in or they do n't let cultivators in .
14 People do n't take up what they are entitled to , which comes down to the way the government presents the information .
15 The choice of where to hold the party usually comes down to the home or a local hall .
16 It all comes down to the quality of your trash .
17 Cinderella , oh I do n't know when that one 's coming down if it comes down to the pictures we 'll go and watch it , I 'll promise you that , right , who 's nicked my cup ?
18 Perhaps the lack of team success comes down to the fact that only three Minor Counties had home ties .
19 Everything comes down to the fact that each one of us has to look out for ourselves , because nobody else cares a damn .
20 So , in the end ( or should one say ‘ at the beginning' ? ) it comes down to the health of the living soil .
21 In places it almost comes down to the ground . ’
22 Clearly , part of that under-reporting comes down to the fear of victimisation .
23 He often comes down to the evening meal drained and exhausted after a day of writing his name at the bottom of letters like these .
24 It comes down to the clowning , the pratfalls , the catcalls ,
25 When knitting your samples did you notice that although the back bed was making the pattern , the design actually shows on the work facing you as it comes down between the beds ?
26 ‘ This part of the kitchen was originally a coal shed and it was a very dark and dingy area , ’ Pauline explains , ‘ so we knocked down the adjoining wall and opened up the staircase that comes down into the corner of the kitchen .
27 The Khmer Rouge also comes down from the north through Preah Vihear to Kompong Thom , Kratie and Kompong Cham .
28 Even the railway has charm as it curves on a fine viaduct where the River Finnan comes down from the mountains to enter Loch Shiel , a long and narrow sheet of water passing through high portals to reach green pastures after a serpentine course of seventeen miles .
29 ( He leaps up in the air and comes down in the 'splits " position .
30 You know , again as you said earlier on it all comes down in the end to the head !
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