Example sentences of "rain [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain fought back the impulse to grab her bag and check the contents , and then she was through to the Post . |
| 2 | Watching the traffic and the rain swallow up the departing taxi , the Captain wondered how the man stayed so thin if he ate that way every day . |
| 3 | Gusts of rain lashed down the narrow alleys ; rickshaws sluiced through the water , more like boats than bicycles . |
| 4 | This is a distinguished , elegant book , almost more ‘ Gothic ’ in style than Palladian , with the lunatic old Nanny , the collapsing conservatory , dismembered statuary , and all the cruel vagaries of the English weather : rain drips down the windows ‘ like gin ’ . |
| 5 | Half five in a morning , with the rain going down the back of your bleeding neck , the police set upon you by the owner and the manager , eh , that 'd liven 'em up . |
| 6 | Rain walked up the room after Mona with Ruby running crabwise beside her begging : ‘ Do think of something , Rain . |
| 7 | Sticky tendrils of rain slithered down the semi-steamed windows of the idling Rolls , encouraging a creeping melancholia . |
| 8 | The sun penetrates the mist and I am in a world of dazzling light and the rain running down the beech trees is like a tide of green blood and fire , its waves and bubbles sparkling in the sunlight . |
| 9 | Rain switched off the water . |
| 10 | But Rain kept up the pretence until she climbed the stairs to the studio . |
| 11 | Rain pours down the window panes of my London flat and I am reading the letters of black political prisoners in the country I was born in . |
| 12 | He lay on the goose feathers , looking at the beams , feeling the soft pelting rain massage away the binding layers of ambition , lust , wickedness , pain , revenge … |
| 13 | Delaney turned from the rain trickling down the window . |
| 14 | If the rain continues then the rivers could swell and burst the banks . |
| 15 | Rain ran up the rest of the stairs . |
| 16 | Rain ran down the harsh planes of his face and dripped from his chin on to the slick oilskin . |
| 17 | Behind him the rain tickling down the window made wavery verticals behind the strict horizontals of the venetian blind . |
| 18 | It had grown rich with sap inside the scaly trunk , buffeted by winds , rain weighting down the fronded branches . |
| 19 | The series was alight — only for it to be thoroughly dampened in Guyana when relentless rain washed out the second Test completely , for only the fifth time in Test history . |
| 20 | Their rearguard began in earnest the following afternoon , after overnight rain washed out the first session . |
| 21 | We sat staring at the rain streaming down the windscreen . |
| 22 | It was falling so fast that rivulets of rain streaming down the window-panes made it difficult to see out at all . |
| 23 | When the forest is gone , the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mould is evaporated , and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that mould has been converted . |
| 24 | He likes the days when nothing seems to happen , and rain runs down the windows , and through somebody else 's windows on the other side of the airwell you can see girls with piles of lacquered hair laughing and making sudden small self-conscious movements , as they flirt with young men in Italian-cut suits , silent behind the layers of glass . |