Example sentences of "come down to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |
| 2 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 3 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 4 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
| 5 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
| 6 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 7 | We 've come down to the wine |
| 8 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
| 9 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 10 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 11 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 12 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
| 13 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |