Example sentences of "[noun sg] have come down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manpower had come down over the years from 470,000 in 1960 to 215,000 twenty years later , but the business was still over-staffed . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her . |
| 10 | Eye-witness Maureen Darwin , who was waiting to board one of the US-bound jumbos , said : ‘ It was as if a giant unseen hand had come down from the heavens and just lifted the planes up and across the tarmac . |
| 11 | This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years . |