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

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1 Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath .
2 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 ’ .
3 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 .
4 Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader .
5 Emulating its action against Hirac Inc in the US , Sparc International , the evangelising supporters group for Sun Microsystems Inc 's RISC has come down like a ton of bricks on a small UK start-up trying to carve a living out of the Sparc-compatible space .
6 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 " .
7 A glacier stone in the churchyard is also mentioned in the Domesday Book and is believed to have come down during the Ice Age .
8 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 ?
9 We 've come down to the wine
10 that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as
11 You know , I think we 've that nobody keeps us We 've had a name over the years that we 're an expensive carrier , and it 's just sort of keep going and educating them that we 've come down in the market or ,
12 We 've come down in the middle of nowhere , and you calmly suggest we walk out !
13 The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held .
19 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 .
20 And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place .
24 He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital .
25 It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her .
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