Example sentences of "come down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 the people that have left are sort of in the recession and that now , there 's all the really big business people and that that have come down to the same level as everybody else .
2 that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as
3 Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held .
4 My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road .
5 A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road …
6 How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " .
7 Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet .
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