Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the sun " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looks like the sun and then dark colour blue to do the moon . |
| 2 | Pluto , the planet of transformation , joins with the sun on the 14th , and with Mercury on the 27th making these prime times for fateful developments . |
| 3 | Rufus stands with the sun in his eyes , |
| 4 | Bahamas glistens in the sun after the support crew 's attention . |
| 5 | Similarly , light tries to travel in a straight line , but the curvature of space-time near the sun causes the light from distant stars to be bent if it passes near the sun . |
| 6 | Contrast what Richter was doing with what happens in the Sun . |
| 7 | Reporter asks : What about Matt Elliott for England , it says in the Sun . |
| 8 | So what you 're saying , in terms of the eight minutes , is that something , an event which happens on the sun , which is visible , takes about eight minutes to reach us . |
| 9 | A cloud passes over the sun , darkens the sky , and we are both reflected in the green . |
| 10 | A master of spontaneous oratory , Asimov could hold forth on almost any subject with brilliant lucidity — as in his much-cited off-the-cuff description of how human life depends on the Sun : ‘ All of us are living in the light and warmth of a huge hydrogen bomb , 860,000 miles across and 93 million miles away , which is in a state of continuous explosion . ’ |
| 11 | It also depends on the sun — a south-facing window will add more heat than it loses , winter or summer , though not always when you want it . |
| 12 | Some were later exploited by Copernicus in his attempt to establish that the earth both turns on its axis and revolves around the sun . |
| 13 | In another mood , secure and easy movement , optimistic and pleasantly anticipatory , goes with the sun and the moon ; westwards … the migratory direction of the human race in modern times . |
| 14 | There is also a magnificent palm tree for shade where you can quench your thirst with a cool drink from the hotel bar which opens onto the sun terrace . |
| 15 | The tunnel , which is virtually free of neutral , or non-ionised , gas , is at least 1000 light years long and stretches from the Sun to the star Beta Canis Majoris and beyond . |
| 16 | Figure 5.7 is a schematic representation of the path of electromagnetic energy in the visible spectrum as it travels from the sun to the Earth and back again towards a sensor mounted on an orbiting satellite . |
| 17 | Like the other planets it travels around the Sun in an ellipse , which means that at some times it is closer to the Sun than at others . |
| 18 | In an ideal situation , the ball might approach the dent in such a way that it continued to go round and round it in a circle — rather like the Earth goes round the Sun . |
| 19 | Some people think that the Earth goes round the sun . |
| 20 | As the earth goes round the sun , we see them from different positions against the background of more distant stars . |
| 21 | As the earth goes round the sun so the moon goes round |
| 22 | The moon does n't the earth goes round the sun so the moon goes round the earth . |
| 23 | Meantime the earth is spinning as it goes round the sun . |
| 24 | MLT is defined in terms of the point where the field line would cut the ecliptic plane and the angle that point subtends with the Sun at the Earth 's centre . |
| 25 | Her pale , plain face was turned to him as a flower turns to the sun . |
| 26 | The second stanza is a global view of the sun 's power and refers to the sun 's life giving properties in general . |
| 27 | Owen again refers to the sun 's powers , how it causes seeds to grow from the warmth and ‘ care ’ it gives them , and also how it once woke up life at the beginning of the world by adding its warmth to ‘ the clays of a cold star ’ . |
| 28 | Whereas the moon can be looked at directly , although its luminosity derives from the sun , the sun itself , if gazed at , blinds man with excess of light . |
| 29 | How can that erm you know if man does n't destroy the world , well what 's happening is that every year the earth moves towards the sun one centimetre . |
| 30 | The tunnel extends from the Sun in the direction of 10 o'clock . |