Example sentences of "come down [prep] earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 2 | With a little sigh , a feeling of having come down to earth again , Merrill went to find Richard . |
| 3 | Almost dancing on air , Laura had barely come down to earth when she found herself sitting beside him in a small riverside restaurant . |
| 4 | ‘ I was very happy when I learned I had got a place at Oxford and my mum still has n't come down to earth yet . |
| 5 | I do n't think I 've come down to earth since the day I met her . ’ |
| 6 | But , to come down to earth again , Schott 's glass ceramics are just as much at home in the kitchen , where extremes of temperature leave our ‘ Ceran ’ hobs cold . |
| 7 | But I ended by clarifying Jesus 's role in the scheme of things by quoting , as far as I could remember , from a hymn , ‘ He came down on earth from Heaven , he died to save us all . ’ |
| 8 | But it was in talking to a fellow tourist at the airport on the return journey that we really came down to earth . |
| 9 | The young New Zealander came down to earth with a bruising bump in the World Cup and still has much to learn , but he remains potentially an all-rounder of world class . |
| 10 | Having survived ten days in the Caribbean unbeaten and relatively unscathed , in St Kitts we came down to earth with a large thump and were soundly thrashed by the island 's powerful side , which contained several hard hitting batsmen . |
| 11 | Of course I came down to earth on my next round . |
| 12 | I came down to earth again . |
| 13 | Once upon a time , an angel came down to earth to test the charity of man . |
| 14 | I came down to earth a bit when Harry Enfield came on to thunderous applause . |
| 15 | It was time he came down to earth with a bump , she thought , literally . |
| 16 | Miranda clapped when the song was over , came down to earth . |
| 17 | Dr Neil came down to earth with a bump . |
| 18 | Peter Lilley came down to earth . |
| 19 | On Monday morning Shelley came down to earth with a bang . |
| 20 | She came down to earth then . |
| 21 | But first , after a weekend when Swindon Town came down to earth with a bump , here 's Tim with the sport . |
| 22 | AIR travellers came down to earth with a bump yesterday when they joined in some charity aerobics . |
| 23 | AIr travellers came down to earth with a bump yesterday when they joined in some charity aerobics . |
| 24 | Coming down to earth : Over the next four weeks Sally Tamplin looks at the problems of a small town garden . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | She was coming down to earth . |
| 28 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Coming down to earth , have you found out anything about Brand ? ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Even poets must come down to earth and to the bottom of their hills , and the long poem ends : |