Example sentences of "[art] rain [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the rain continues then the rivers could swell and burst the banks . |
| 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 | Delaney turned from the rain trickling down the window . |
| 4 | We sat staring at the rain streaming down the windscreen . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Behind him the rain tickling down the window made wavery verticals behind the strict horizontals of the venetian blind . |
| 8 | It is estimated that for every pound a farmer spends on fertilizer on his fields , he can expect the rain to wash away a good fifty pence-worth . |