Example sentences of "[adv] to earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Coming down to earth : Over the next four weeks Sally Tamplin looks at the problems of a small town garden . |
| 3 | But it was in talking to a fellow tourist at the airport on the return journey that we really came down to earth . |
| 4 | comes down to earth at a residential road close to Milngavie station . |
| 5 | Hart 's approach is down to earth and realistic and the tone throughout is overwhelmingly encouraging . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 9 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 10 | And when you get back down to earth , concessionary discounts can ease your domestic burdens . |
| 11 | Ziggy beams down to earth |
| 12 | You can now see why Christianity is so radical and so down to earth . |
| 13 | The journey through Louisiana was more down to earth . |
| 14 | The English are too down to earth for successful symbolism . |
| 15 | That usually brought him down to earth . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought what we were worrying about was a roof over your head , ’ I said , feeling that Aunt Louise needed bringing down to earth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | GOD 'S PROMISES ON THE BRINK and a hero brought down to earth with a bump |
| 19 | 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 ’ ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Indeed , ‘ Down To Earth ’ can speak for itself . |
| 24 | ( Monie wo n't wear any , and has written the track ‘ Down To Earth ’ to say so . ) |
| 25 | ‘ Down To Earth ’ will prove that she has not only mastered here medium , but that she has only just begun . |
| 26 | Down to earth . |
| 27 | And down to earth though she was , she had to admit there were often some weird parallels . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ENGLAND men failed to turn their silver into gold in the European Championships in Stuttgart last night as they were brought down to earth 4–1 by Sweden in the final of the men 's team event . |
| 30 | Mr Prescott 's gutsy , down to earth brand of socialism has gained him the respect of party activists . |