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 he 's not come down ; |
| 6 | Then why not come down and have a day 's shooting next Saturday , ’ Fraser suggested . |
| 7 | Look why not come down to my cottage now , and we 'll have lunch there — I never have much more than just a picnic myself — then we can go across this afternoon , and maybe take tea to have on the island ? |
| 8 | Well , why not , why not come down hard on them ? |
| 9 | I 'd better not come down , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 10 | The Warbutt had not come down from his tower to wish his son farewell , and Bicker was grim and silent with his cloak held up around his mouth and ice crystals forming on it where his breath froze . |
| 11 | We then noticed Allingham had not come down although he was generally an early riser . |
| 12 | When he left the house — Jessica had still not come down — he drove in the McCausland car to the heart of Belfast , where he went to an office in a grey , featureless building and followed up the leads . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 15 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |
| 16 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 17 | ‘ You mean , you 've just come down ? ’ said Bob , trying out of politeness not to sound incredulous . |
| 18 | I am fifteen I have just come down here in my lunch hour at school but I am having a good time . |
| 19 | I 've only just started so he said er I 've just come down to you know . |
| 20 | Erm he 's just come down with this rotten old cough and cold again and I was going to take him to the doctor 's but then they do n't like it giving them anything and I do n't like giving him anything so |
| 21 | Well there seems to be a slight mismatch there , and perhaps some of this mismatch is also a part of , with the confusion I have of the various shifting policy of York , in term in terms of their requirement , there has been in the in the not too recent recent past York were saying they had an additional requirement beyond need which they termed their concealed requirement , although it might not be a concealed dwellings , as we might otherwise describe them , of one thousand six hundred , and that has progressively come down to seven hundred as presented at this enquiry . |
| 22 | Nemesis had still come down like the wolf on the fold . |
| 23 | I think that 's probably come down through the years and things are still that way for musicians : get them as cheap as you can and never give them the credit that they deserve . ’ |
| 24 | If James has n't come down by the time you get back , I promise to go and get you a drink , my darling , dearest , demanding wife . ’ |
| 25 | But they would n't they do n't come down normally to ? |
| 26 | No , I have n't come down here with suggestions — that would be presumptuous — but with information , or what might be . |
| 27 | ‘ What would you be doing now if you had n't come down ? ’ |
| 28 | When the girl had n't come down , his uncle had been angry and sent the eunuch up . |
| 29 | ‘ I was very happy when I learned I had got a place at Oxford and my mum still has n't come down to earth yet . |
| 30 | He 's putting the flues on and he has n't come down to check it so if he 's down here I 'm gon na bloody tell him . |