Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a real not a conjectural cause ; for it was known to exist from observations of swinging pendulums and falling stones down here on earth . |
| 2 | They are doing what we all have to do down here on earth : they are getting ready to die . |
| 3 | Because the Pope , according to Bernard and his friends , alone among all men had the ear of God , and God , it seems , thinks the more people down here on earth the better . |
| 4 | and my hearing floats back widely to earth |
| 5 | And when you get back down to earth , concessionary discounts can ease your domestic burdens . |
| 6 | Come to that , I suppose , most of the other sprinters were hoping that the timing was wrong and were eager to bring me back down to earth . |
| 7 | The next evening , the Thursday , I was brought back down to earth with a bump . |
| 8 | ‘ It was an unbelievable move and it took me a few weeks to come back down to earth . ’ |
| 9 | Suddenly , to my embarrassment , my three-year-old daughter brought my right back down to earth as she pointed and said in an extremely loud voice : ‘ Look Mummy , they 're all showing their bottoms ! ’ |
| 10 | So come back down to earth ! |
| 11 | He should come back down to earth with everyone else . |
| 12 | The Volvo left the ground for precious seconds , flying through the air before finally crashing back down to earth with a sickening jolt that jarred every bone in her body . |
| 13 | His statement pulled her back down to earth . |
| 14 | His cheerful London accent seemed to bring her back down to earth , and she hurried to unlock the bolts and let him into the hallway . |
| 15 | When you come back down to earth , is it on to pastures new ? |
| 16 | ‘ But sooner or later one has to come back down to earth , ’ she went on . |
| 17 | It is all the fault of speculators who used the cars as a means of making mega-bucks , like buying paintings or antiques , rather than as personal playthings. 11 MC2966 meteoric rise in the price of even the most mundane of so-called classic motorcars , such as Morris Minors and Volkswagen Beetles , which have now come back down to earth with a thud . |
| 18 | It gets them up through a business meeting and brings them back down to earth when the crisis is passed . |
| 19 | Suddenly the sound of a door , of someone coming in from outside , brought Leith tumbling , falling back down to earth . |
| 20 | ‘ And the reason the boy wonder suddenly rang and invited me to watch him go through his paces was because he wanted to show off something rotten , ’ she teased , intent on bringing him back down to earth . |
| 21 | ‘ There are people here who bring you back down to earth , ’ says the goalkeeper innkeeper . |
| 22 | ‘ When you create chances , especially against Hearts , and do n't take them , then you ca n't have any complaints , ’ admitted McLean after literally coming back down to earth . |
| 23 | you have n't I thought you had , have you come back down to earth ? , you landed ? |
| 24 | Abingdon United came back down to earth with a bang this afternoon when they were defeated at home by three goals to nil by lowly Rayners Lane . |
| 25 | If we can not make any sensible estimates as to the existence of intelligence on other worlds , at least we can look at non-human intelligences back here on Earth . |
| 26 | Um how do we find out how on earth , how much , how much this kind of activity goes on ? |
| 27 | Oh , roamed about all over Earth , as far as I could make out , travelled on foot across huge mountain ranges and vast great deserts where nothing lived . |