Example sentences of "down [prep] earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pour down onto earth |
| 2 | ‘ There 's enough hatred down on earth for them to feed on , is n't there ? ’ |
| 3 | Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Janacek writes words as he writes music — the two were for him virtually indivisible , and in these abrupt , epigrammatic paragraphs , sometimes brutally down to earth , sometimes fanciful , you can hear him talking — often shouting in your ear . |
| 6 | Coming down to earth : Over the next four weeks Sally Tamplin looks at the problems of a small town garden . |
| 7 | But it was in talking to a fellow tourist at the airport on the return journey that we really came down to earth . |
| 8 | comes down to earth at a residential road close to Milngavie station . |
| 9 | Hart 's approach is down to earth and realistic and the tone throughout is overwhelmingly encouraging . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was fun and easy to be with , natural and down to earth , yet she was sensitive and courageous in the way she had coped with her father 's illness . |
| 12 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 13 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 14 | And when you get back down to earth , concessionary discounts can ease your domestic burdens . |
| 15 | Ziggy beams down to earth |
| 16 | You can now see why Christianity is so radical and so down to earth . |
| 17 | The journey through Louisiana was more down to earth . |
| 18 | The English are too down to earth for successful symbolism . |
| 19 | That usually brought him down to earth . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought what we were worrying about was a roof over your head , ’ I said , feeling that Aunt Louise needed bringing down to earth . |
| 21 | It is strange how we struggle to hold back tears as if our very lives depended upon it ; yet there is nothing like tears — that is , genuine tears , genuinely struggled against — to bring people down to earth ; for now , and at once , Aunt Louise became real : a motherly , rational , human being . |
| 22 | GOD 'S PROMISES ON THE BRINK and a hero brought down to earth with a bump |
| 23 | He brings Abraham down to earth with a bump , by giving us a subtle piece of comedy in which he features as something of a country bumpkin and gets , to use unsubtle language for a moment , ‘ right done ’ ! |
| 24 | After Peniel , when for a night Jacob also , so unheroic hitherto , played a hero 's part , we are given more subtle comedy and another hero brought down to earth . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 26 | We 're in the interview room of her record company Cooltempo , here to discuss her debut album , the feet-rhyming , super-funky ‘ Down To Earth ’ . |
| 27 | Indeed , ‘ Down To Earth ’ can speak for itself . |
| 28 | ( Monie wo n't wear any , and has written the track ‘ Down To Earth ’ to say so . ) |
| 29 | ‘ Down To Earth ’ will prove that she has not only mastered here medium , but that she has only just begun . |
| 30 | Down to earth . |