Example sentences of "[adv prt] on earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's enough hatred down on earth for them to feed on , is n't there ? ’ |
| 2 | Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Thus , years after the US and the USSR last sent space probes to the Moon to gather rock samples , a rich harvest of exciting new samples from space is turning up on Earth and which often raise more questions than they answer . |
| 5 | Back on earth , a trellis tent or lean-to may be erected , and clothed with a sweet scented canvas of honeysuckle . |
| 6 | But rats sent into space by Wesley Hymer of Pennsylvania State University showed that readapting , whether on Mars or back on Earth , may not be straightforward . |
| 7 | You look like you just landed back on earth or something and it 's a real shock . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ My piety has been unfailing , ’ claims the singer dubiously before ‘ The Holy Mugger ’ and , as usual , God gets a good kicking ; especially on ‘ Viva Dead Ponies ’ , where Jesus is back on earth owning a paper shop in Crouch End . |
| 9 | Back on earth , how are the thousands of accountants who have been laid off faring ? |
| 10 | There , they proceeded to genetically engineer all of Earth 's large-brained mammals — primates , dolphins and whales — which the entities then replanted , fully evolved , back on Earth . |
| 11 | The great Whale had turned its terrible gaze upon her , transfiguring her once-smooth skin into sheets of light which hid deeper firefly gleams , like the Northern Lights back on Earth . |
| 12 | What do the friends and relatives of the crew feel back on earth as they await news ? |
| 13 | It has yet to fulfil its central claim which is as big as they come : ‘ Make no mistake , Christ will soon be back on earth . ’ |
| 14 | You will notice that this inference contains the built-in assumption that whatever went on on Earth is likely to have gone on elsewhere in the universe , and this begs the whole question . |
| 15 | Men should be walking about on Earth in a state of intoxication and delight , yet here we are amid these real riches and most people are miserable and peevish . |