Example sentences of "rain [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northumberland has , of course , great beauties , but foul and interminable rain endured there on the Tuesday and in Chester-le-Street , with a lesser downpour in Darlington the next day , have reduced me to the shuddering , feverish condition in which this is being written at the Wheatsheaf , Sandbach . |
| 2 | Mother Francis was thinking about Eve as she watched the rain fall steadily on the convent grounds . |
| 3 | Outside the rain pattered lightly on the window , and in the room there was a great sense of tranquillity . |
| 4 | Rain pattered gently on the unlined metal above , and he hoped it drowned his panting breath . |
| 5 | Sometimes I looked out of the window at the grey November afternoon , and saw the rain pouring down on the leafless garden . |
| 6 | Heavy rain drummed down on the canvas overhead . |
| 7 | Rain fell quietly on the window . |
| 8 | The wind and the rain beating down on the river camouflaged his progress ; he could see the bridge now and he waited , watching . |
| 9 | Clinging to this assurance , Isabel listened to the rain beating down on the other side of the wall and refused to think about her peculiar reactions to fitzAlan any longer . |