Example sentences of "to earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile in another part of the village Constable Quince had run his quarry to earth in the vegetable garden of the Manor . |
| 2 | The couples frequently face each other looking into each other 's faces and appear to crouch over their feet slightly which emphasises the ‘ down to earth ’ quality as most steps appear to go down into and not out of the ground . |
| 3 | The INPUT SHOTECTOR works by monitoring the current flowing in the ‘ live ’ and ‘ neutral ’ wires and is activated by any leakage of current to earth — perhaps through you ! |
| 4 | Cable code signals — three-condition signals — were sent to line via the siphon recorder and its shunts SS1 and RSI giving pulse working to the distant terminal where the received signals passed through the recorder coils , the high-resistance inductive shunt RS2 to earth , via SR2 . |
| 5 | Lordly men are to earth o'ergiven |
| 6 | are to earth o'ergiven . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Vishnu , the second god of the Hindu triad , resolved to return to earth in human form . |
| 9 | Coming down to earth : Over the next four weeks Sally Tamplin looks at the problems of a small town garden . |
| 10 | People had been awe-struck by the pictures sent back to earth by Voyager 2 of arid lifeless planets and moons . |
| 11 | But it was in talking to a fellow tourist at the airport on the return journey that we really came down to earth . |
| 12 | comes down to earth at a residential road close to Milngavie station . |
| 13 | Hart 's approach is down to earth and realistic and the tone throughout is overwhelmingly encouraging . |
| 14 | Their homecoming , going to earth and returning to sources , reaches , in a sense , its furthest point in ‘ The Dry Salvages ’ , where Eliot returns to his own St Louis and Massachusetts childhood , to ‘ The life of significant soil ’ , and to the savage meanings associated with such beginnings . |
| 15 | One of these was a 1957 black and white feature called 20,000,000 Miles to Earth , in which a spaceship , returning from Venus , crashes into the sea . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 19 | They turned to florid over-statement with Gone to Earth ( 1950 ) and , by the time the duo came to make Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1956 ) , it is difficult to dissent from Powell 's own judgement that ‘ we 'd run out a bit of ideas ’ . |
| 20 | The resulting film , The Quatermass Xperiment ( 1955 ) , tells of a spaceship returning to earth with only one being on board — a monster gestating inside the skin of a crew member . |
| 21 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 22 | And when you get back down to earth , concessionary discounts can ease your domestic burdens . |
| 23 | That is how Mrs Thatcher and her entourage are playing it and while many of the 57 , probably 59 , dissenters may disagree they , too , reinforced the Downing Street mood by prudently going to earth . |
| 24 | Already trumpeted as ‘ A Mission To Earth ’ by Nasa , climate research has gained new prominence , chiming with the rise in environmental concerns the world over . |
| 25 | The conference , Earth Mission 2000 , reflects a shift in emphasis in Russian space policy back to Earth ; and the deal with the British company Sigma Products is the latest attempt to capitalise on their space programme — the world 's biggest . |
| 26 | But it is not the first case where an Australasian entrepreneur , hailed as a hero when things are going well , has found himself brought to earth with an ignominious bump when the going gets tough . |
| 27 | The story takes us through his films , shows , tours , from The Man Who Fell To Earth ( about which Nicholas Roeg recalls , ‘ I was asked by the company — can he act ? — to which I replied — what do you mean can he act ? |
| 28 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 29 | Ziggy beams down to earth |
| 30 | Candy Clarke with the man who fell to earth . |