Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought what we were worrying about was a roof over your head , ’ I said , feeling that Aunt Louise needed bringing down to earth . |
| 2 | Songs like ‘ High As A Kite ’ , ‘ Drop The Bomb ’ and ‘ Highway 's Gate ’ scrape the sky and then bring it crashing down to earth . |
| 3 | Unlike Marlowe , he acknowledges time as an all powerful element which brings such fantasies crashing down to earth . |
| 4 | Taking off as a conventional aircraft the plane would take its passengers into space , reaching 18,0000 mph before gliding back to earth like the Space Shuttle . |
| 5 | So perhaps Lollo and I wo n't make so much fuss about going back to Earth . |
| 6 | ‘ I like getting back to earth , ’ she said . |
| 7 | His high-fliers were brought crashing back to earth by a 3-0 Tranmere victory , however . |
| 8 | Coming down to earth : Over the next four weeks Sally Tamplin looks at the problems of a small town garden . |
| 9 | In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth . |
| 10 | ‘ The biggest spanking you 've ever had , ’ she answered promptly , coming down to earth ; and they proceeded down a steep zigzag path to the shore . |
| 11 | She was coming down to earth . |
| 12 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Coming down to earth , have you found out anything about Brand ? ’ |
| 13 | erm the ostensible subject of this passage is that he 's now finished with hell and heaven as the setting for his poems , and he 's coming down to earth for what is left . |
| 14 | We wait in anticipation of his future coming back to earth . |
| 15 | Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth . |
| 16 | They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui , and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere ; Rachel felt she was being shaken till her teeth rattled as the car sped up through the cross-harbour tunnel into Causeway Bay , past the bobbing sampans and the escort clubs , speeding towards Central District along the harbour road , traffic everywhere , horns blasting in her ears … |
| 17 | Some are undoubtedly produced when ropy strands or shreds of sticky lava are flung up out of the vent , twisting and turning slightly in the air before falling back to earth ; these are known as rope or ribbon bombs , and they may be as much as one metre long . |
| 18 | The finest material may be carried for tens of kilometres down-wind , and some of it may even stay suspended for many months , eventually falling back to earth on the other side of the globe . |