Example sentences of "[vb past] come down " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she phoned me , I saw her about three weeks ago , she asked to come down . |
| 2 | I was astonished that he agreed to come down with you . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ The pilot tried to come down once and aborted it . |
| 4 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 5 | To Tony was telling me that er he was asked that Walsall needed the money so he was asked to be transferred to Port Vale , which he did but er I think he was past his best and he , he 'd came down back here and played a couple of times with Port Vale , and er but erm like I say he was past his best . |
| 6 | In what seemed a very short time the plane began to come down and bits of northern Italy could be seen below . |
| 7 | Outside their refuge the rain began to come down in earnest . |
| 8 | Well I felt very honoured that er that people should recognise er the fact that you know you did the job and they enjoyed coming down here to travel from Charlbury . |
| 9 | My sister and I were sitting there , and the first doodle bug hit the building next door and the entire ceiling started to come down . |
| 10 | The lift landed with a ‘ clump ’ but as the lift door began to open , ‘ I enjoyed it too , ’ he answered gravely , Fabia felt suddenly mesmerised , and his head started to come down . |
| 11 | Why he decided to come down on one player 's side against another is beyond comprehension . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , we remained friends , and when he decided to come down here and start his practice I asked if he would take me on as a pupil veterinary nurse . |
| 13 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
| 14 | I needed to come down . |
| 15 | It was around this time that Nick Kent started coming down to rehearsals at Riverside . |
| 16 | When the glass started coming down , I started screaming . |
| 17 | So I 'm stabbing my husband and it all got quite wild and my hair started coming down . |
| 18 | She started coming down with it when we were on our business trip , arranging this weekend . |
| 19 | ‘ You know , I gave her that room to herself when she came to us , because I thought it would be better , and she treated me like a servant — well , you saw , did n't you ? — and when she 'd got all the fun and sense of power out of that little game she started coming down with us . |
| 20 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 21 | When all this has been said , it is still very difficult to see how the Divisional Court in R. v. LTE ex parte GLC managed to come down in favour of the GLC in the face of the unanimous decision of the Law Lords . |
| 22 | I heard him working away up here alone , and he kept coming down all eager and excited and asking me to come and look , and I would n't … of all the ridiculous , petty … |
| 23 | Well , that tie broke and my trousers kept coming down ; and that added to the trouble . |
| 24 | Pancevski himself appeared to come down on the side of the Serbian position by stressing repeatedly that political pluralism " must be based on socialist orientation and the federal structure " and asserting : " The LCY finds unacceptable the thesis according to which the essence and form of political pluralism are reduced to a classic multiparty system alone . " |
| 25 | He still liked to come down for meals but often could n't last out and would leave his food and return . |
| 26 | Rose liked to come down here when he old man got on her wick . ’ |
| 27 | I cried to come down more insistently than I had pleaded for a ride . |
| 28 | And er on the other hand you can get in your car and you can get down to suddenly find they 've got the the road up or E G as we did coming down to York today there 's driving his his er surface lifter down the road and and er you 're stuck in a traffic jam for a wee while er |
| 29 | The next one was a direct hit , and the whole ceiling did come down . |
| 30 | And the press did come down , I mean it got some coverage . |