Example sentences of "[adv] come down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hemlines have since come down , and so have many of the buildings . |
| 2 | When I looked out of the window and saw you creeping through the garden , I thought I 'd better come down and find out what you were up to . ’ |
| 3 | and then and then Miss said you 'd better come down and we 'll have a talk about it , I 've learnt a bit more about your ex country |
| 4 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 5 | But you 'd do better to come down with me and make the long trip round . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Do you feel well enough to come down ? ’ |
| 8 | The expedition organisers hope Harry Taylor will be fit enough to come down when the storm passes in 24 hours . |
| 9 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
| 10 | Do n't forget , we only came down here for a drink . |
| 11 | I only came down to cheat ! |
| 12 | He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’ |
| 13 | With me coming from the North of England , everybody is pretty reserved up there at the best of times , so coming down to London and meeting Angie with an American accent and flitting around the room and speaking in a loud voice all the time , it was amazing . |
| 14 | In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth . |
| 15 | As much as three up after 11 holes the Spaniards lost both the 12th and 13th to pars but held themselves together coming down the stretch to win a priceless point . |
| 16 | Lancashire Region to second and colleagues if , if all the other movers and seconders and the C E C speaker would all come down to the front it would help us enormously with time Yorkshire Region to move . |
| 17 | you know they 'd all come down , but if they do n't , erm |
| 18 | And they can all come down . |
| 19 | He 'll have the sinner box and everyone 's gone upstairs and have their bit of nooky , they can all come down and confess to him ! |
| 20 | Well anyway Sarah and that lot can sleep downstairs , we 'll all come down during the night |
| 21 | So I do think that the , I do n't think it actually does necessarily come down to glossy brochures , but I think it is a management attitude erm , in terms of mark developing a very much more pro-active marketing approach to going out and competing aggressively in the market place for the contracts . |
| 22 | As we drive to McDonald 's , Blake explains that the company can probably only come down to about one p.p.m. zinc , and only then if it spends a lot of money . |
| 23 | The price of organic food can only come down with bigger subsidies to organic farmers . |
| 24 | Oh yeah , and his dog , yeah likes it as well yeah , they used to leave a tray out for him every night , yeah when it was closing time the dog knew every time it closed , it wo , I mean if they closed at lunchtime it would n't come down it would only come down when they closed up at night . |
| 25 | This will be the reason for the oddity of ( 54 ) where one such basic property is related to its noun through assignment , by contrast with the normality of ( 55 ) where it is given as one of the initial identifying properties of the subject entity ( there is obviously no difference of truth-value between the two ) : ( 54 ) ? a ladle which was heavy came down on his skull ( 55 ) a heavy ladle came down on his skull Thus , other things being equal we expect properties of such basic sorts to be used predominantly for identification by ordinary qualification . |
| 26 | She had evidently only come down to the foyer to collect her mail . |
| 27 | They are an important part of our twin-track approach so that we not only come down hard on offenders who commit the crime of taking vehicles , but we do all we can to prevent youngsters from offending . |
| 28 | literally come down |
| 29 | Er I mean er by jumping down come down |
| 30 | Cos if you leave d go the cord straight away the cord just goes shooting up there , the weight inside comes down here and you lose the cord and you have to take the whole lot p t apart in order to get the thing to work again . |