Example sentences of "come down [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail .
2 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 .
3 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 . ’
4 It 's come down through the years , this story .
5 This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ .
6 A glacier stone in the churchyard is also mentioned in the Domesday Book and is believed to have come down during the Ice Age .
7 After more anxious discussion , the woman who had come down with the leaves , bony and greyish of skin with her hair wrapped in a yellow turban , poured half , then all the small bottle of gin into the steaming mixture and ceremoniously put it in the centre of the floor .
8 Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies .
9 But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks .
10 Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow .
11 In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it .
12 On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her .
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 Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held .
15 He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon .
16 And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there .
17 He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting .
18 The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea .
19 She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place .
20 We 've come down to the wine
21 He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital .
22 the people that have left are sort of in the recession and that now , there 's all the really big business people and that that have come down to the same level as everybody else .
23 that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as
24 Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader .
25 This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again .
26 Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her .
27 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 .
28 Now there was some dispute over whether Berlin or Bonn should be the capital , they 've come down on the side of Berlin , but is that dispute settled now ?
29 The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood .
30 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 .
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