Example sentences of "coming down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told Lizzie now that she would be coming down at the weekend and asked her if she would be kind enough to get her old room ready for her . |
| 2 | ‘ She was out of the oxygen tent earlier- and her temperature was coming down with the antibiotics but then when she came to … she opened her eyes and suddenly seemed to go into a panic . |
| 3 | He had lost much blood , his helm was notably dinted , and the head inside it already dazed and misty as the dusk coming down on the hills . |
| 4 | His eyes shut for one second , then he moved , coming down on the bed beside her . |
| 5 | But who can blame UEFA , post-Heysel , for coming down on the side of life and limb before either is lost ? |
| 6 | I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative . |
| 7 | An easy cart track heads north and in five minutes arrives at Dry Laithe Cave , commonly known as Calf Holes , where a stream coming down on the right disappears in a rash of rocks and passes into a cave under the track . |
| 8 | On the far bank white oxen were coming down to the water . |
| 9 | On such a morning , I remember dressing in a freezing bedroom , then coming down to the kitchen with its brightly flaming coal fire , dad having been up much earlier to coax the sleeping embers to life . |
| 10 | She remembered me coming down to the burn and tramping the bags in the the , help to wash them . |
| 11 | And that erm led to a lot of people coming down to the probation office , asking , you know , what if anything they could do about the noise up there . |
| 12 | In only moments the pursuers were in turn coming down to the ford , and in much more disciplined order , professional English cavalry-men , not mosstroopers . |
| 13 | Right erm regarding being a Lancastrian I think the er the main for coming down to the south is probably where you are today , I mean , cricket is the great game that we all follow here |
| 14 | Coming down to the wire with FileNet imaging , WorkFlo products |
| 15 | are you coming down to the car ? |
| 16 | With Unix coming down to the desktop and moving into the commercial arena , Adobe feels their two paths are beginning to come together , even if Unix still represents only a tiny piece of its business . |
| 17 | I do n't advise coming down to the mortuary , Pat . |
| 18 | The announcement of the Westcott redundancies came as monthly figures were released showing unemployment coming down across the region . |
| 19 | Coming down off the mountains , Matthiessen first finds that he loses the calm and joy of the transfiguration of his perception in high places and becomes a prey to irritation and a sense of desolation and purposelessness — his past experience apparently rendered hallucinatory in the face of his present sense of failure . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , I 'm well enough , ’ Mrs Clamp said , shaking her head and coming down off the stool , picking up some more frozen burgers and going back to the freezer . |
| 21 | In his essay ‘ The Novelist at the Crossroads ’ , Lodge sees most British authors hesitating between , or combining in a variety of ways , the possibilities of a main road of tradition — ‘ the realist novel … coming down through the Victorians and Edwardians ’ — and alternatives offered by modernism and the developments that have followed it ( Lodge 1971 : 18 ) . |
| 22 | Well , if I can check it on the plan , it 's , the plan actually shows half the site , there 's the central slide way way coming down through the development site , all that occupies , all one side of the slide way . |
| 23 | And seeing these two women coming down through the path towards the city the people of Bethlehem , yo you 'll read it there in the opening of chapter two in the book of Ruth , the people of Bethlehem , they left their fields and came running to greet them ! |
| 24 | Th the strong highlight on the reflection on the water obviously is a thing which makes the picture as , and also the , the sort of rays of sun coming down through the cloud . |
| 25 | I thought , when I heard him coming down through the bushes , it could be no one but Tutilo . |
| 26 | I tried to stop him , but it were Mr Benedict coming down through the kitchens in such a bang and shouting for his groom that started it . ’ |
| 27 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |
| 28 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |
| 29 | By then Ward was coming down onto the track , his false arm and dummy hand hanging limp at his side . |
| 30 | This ha , es you feel like you are coming down into the ball , which is a more positive feeling . |