I would sit back, stall, take my feet off the rudder pedals and, using the stick to keep level, losing altitude as we fluttered down to earth. |
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We have paid the penalty for not being prepared and we have been brought down to earth with a bang. |
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Buoyant gnocchi are brought down to earth by porcini mushrooms and a translucent but keenly flavored prosciutto. |
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After a convincing start to the season last week, Leigh RU came down to earth with a bump, beaten 15-7 by newly promoted Bowdon. |
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I will always remember the 1990s as the decade in which the mythologicals came down to earth with a bang. |
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Next up was Arsenal and we were brought back down to earth with a bang and a 2-1 defeat. |
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She was honest, down to earth, determined and, most importantly, very, very funny. |
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All I can say is the city is on a power trip and they need to come down to earth and see the simpler stuff in life. |
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The next day we venture to Livigno's highest runs on the Carosella 3000 gondola and plunge back down to earth. |
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This certainly adds a realistic dimension to the film and brings the stories down to earth. |
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His down to earth humility endeared him to all and his good deeds were many down through the years. |
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Darren is a down to earth, cheeky guy who loves his Northern roots and can often be found down the pub with a pint of Best. |
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He was a working-class lad from the north of England, blunt, plain-spoken, down to earth, and dead keen to get on in the world. |
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He was challenged with the test of summoning the inner resources needed to actualize Abraham's mighty vision and bring it down to earth. |
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They've just come back after winning an Olympic gold medal so they are going to be on a high, but they have also got to come back down to earth. |
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It's been a really hectic few days, and I'm only now beginning to come back down to earth. |
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This is by far the best prize we have ever won and I think it will take quite a while to come back down to earth. |
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In the ritualistic piece that preludes actual narration, the Chakyar depicts how he has come a long way down to earth from heaven. |
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Bringing us back down to earth, the beauty and health director has this to say about the website. |
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Too many songs are aborted takeoffs, briefly hovering in the air before settling back down to earth, grounded by their own sense of averageness. |
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It brings me right back down to earth with a bump because my life now is so hectic. |
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Our members are a down to earth group of fanciers who not only love the breed of Giant Runts, but they truly enjoy each other as friends as well. |
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Just five days later, however, he crashed down to earth amid accusations of bribery. |
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The family members are down to earth rationalists confronting everyday contingencies. |
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He had a real homely and jolly down to earth manner that endeared him to all. |
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The cat jumped to a height of two metres or more, hooked the bird with the claws of one outstretched paw and brought it crashing down to earth. |
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She's really down to earth and has fantastic references from her previous employers. |
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It was an ode to peace in English requesting Lord Krishna to come down to earth and resolve the conflicts of the world. |
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He was, without a doubt, the devil's evil spawn, sent down to earth to mess up the lives of innocent and simple girls. |
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She's from Kansas or somewhere similar in America, and she's really down to earth. |
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In this story a bird is sent down to earth to dry out some of the mud in the primordial slush so that islands can be formed for the Ainu. |
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The camera panned down to earth, and several large, reddish blotches appeared on the surface as the missiles struck. |
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An exuberant Mozilla Foundation has been brought back down to earth with a bang by the world's internet organisations. |
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He certainly brought Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean down to earth with a bang in the semi-finals. |
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They bring the highfalutin heroic language back down to earth and make it palatable. |
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He sounded very sweet and down to earth so I eventually plucked up the courage to give him a call. |
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They're all local lads and I was struck by just how down to earth they were. |
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I've got such a buzz at the moment I don't know when I'll come back down to earth. |
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As much of an obsessive fangirl as she can be, she's incredibly down to earth, calm in every situation and able to see hope in just about every cause. |
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To be honest, I like the Heath who was caring, affectionate and down to earth, more than the Heath who was pimping practically every girl he came across. |
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She was down to earth, plain speaking, kind and considerate. |
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Desserts were more down to earth and we had some excellent apple and pear tarte tatin with spiced ice cream and dark chocolate and praline silk cake. |
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If you get too big for your boots, they are great levellers and will bring you back down to earth. |
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When acid pollution falls back down to earth, it makes whatever it falls on go sour. |
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I had the pleasure of meeting her on a few occasions, each time she was delightful company, down to earth, laughing and never full of herself. |
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His unrealistic growth forecasts in the April budget were duly brought down to earth. |
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People who make use of the free movement of persons are brought down to earth with a shock. |
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I was brought down to earth with a bump by my ignorance of such basics as the critical importance of sound. |
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Capitalism has brought down to earth the economists, managers and speculators by virtue of the laws of crisis. |
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Kundalini is a very powerful form of energy that helps anyone with the birth in itself and by the Dane Ole Gabrielsen was brought down to earth. |
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But he escapes, and falls back down to earth, landing in a tropical rain forest. |
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But if he manages to get his asteroid down to earth, it will have ceased to be a heavenly body and space law won't apply. |
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I'll venture down to earth as an angel and put in a good word with the Sovereign on your account, get her to mention you more often in this year's Christmas speech. |
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I understand, but RealDolmen is a down to earth company, with a simple, no nonsense approach. |
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But those people at the top can also subsequently be brought very much down to earth in the eyes of the public. |
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We have a presence on every continent but at the same time have remained down to earth and flexible. |
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Perhaps this will bring us down to earth and perhaps we will then amend the visa regime more easily and with greater urgency. |
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I wish this legislation, which would create a centre to deal with land claims, would address the real down to earth problems. |
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Today I tend to travel in order to come down to earth a little and to return to a more social and ordinary reality than the life I lead. |
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One of the brothers writes: This morning we were very « down to earth » in the peace group I have been helping to lead for nearly two years. |
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In flight, well-being is essential because after coming back down to earth, the only important thing is the next flight. |
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Father Peter is a likable character who seems to enjoy fishing and gambling more than sermonizing, though he has some pragmatic, down to earth advice for those who need it. |
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Scillas bring the sky-blue color down to earth under flowering pear trees and forsythias, as hyacinths underplanted with pansies welcome visitors. |
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For it was granted in our illustration of light that the rays of the sun sent down to earth from heaven are not defiled by touching all the mud and filth and garbage. |
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It's only after leaving the shop that you have to come back down to earth. |
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Powers had no chance to evade it, and bailed out as his U-2 spun down to earth. |
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But everybody was so down to earth, and the atmosphere was very relaxed. |
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And we prefer them to do a tandem skydive, where they are attached in a harness to an instructor who will bring them out of the aircraft and safely down to earth. |
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After last week's great win over Camlough Rovers, Bessbrook United were brought down to earth with a bang when Kilkeel Athletic held them to a 3-3 draw. |
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Fifty five years is a long time to wait for a repeat and both men are confident that this mighty English team can be brought down to earth with a bang on Sunday. |
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Weybridge golfer Paul Casey, ranked 29th in the world, came down to earth with a bang in the Open last week when he failed to make the cut for the final two rounds. |
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The Screening God is one of the most important Gods as he is blessed with the power to see who is worthy of becoming a god, an angel, or thrown back down to earth. |
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Birmingham came down to earth with a bump after their derby victory over Aston Villa on Monday, losing 1-0 at Middlesbrough to a stunning Franck Queudrue free-kick. |
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Top-flight newcomers Brasenose came down to earth with a bump, losing 32-8 to a well-drilled Keble side who dominated a bad-tempered game in the University Parks this Tuesday. |
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The interaction between the parts and the horizon brings the lunation cycle down to earth, projecting it, via the ascendant, into the sublunar sphere of the mundane houses. |
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Now it's time to come back down to earth, for our approach and landing. |
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It is evident that decentralization should continue and UNESCO should be brought down to earth and come closer to the real problems, thus generating the paramount need for rotation. |
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They have been called this to teach them to stay down to earth, and to follow the footprints of Christ's humility, which in the end will exalt them above others in the sight of the saints. |
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To be brought down to earth every now and again. |
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Born in Ottawa, in 1942, Terry Mosher enjoys dragging the illustrious down to earth, as witness the clouds of dandruff generally emanating from his victims' hair. |
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If the people who live in ivory towers came down to earth once in a while, maybe things could improve. |
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Yet those high abstractions are brought down to earth to determine in what order one washes his hands and picks up a cup of wine, or, as noted, where one puts his napkin. |
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While blue is the colour that renders the immaterial visible, and gold is the colour that lets us into its kingdom, pink signifies a descent back down to earth, like a spirit incarnated here below. |
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Meanwhile in Quito, Liga Deportiva Universitaria brought high-flying River Plate back down to earth with a 2-1 defeat through a combination of good passing and constant harrying. |
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Mr President, we will vote against the report for two reasons: firstly because there used to be UCLAF, and you would have thought that UCLAF were an avenging angel come down to earth. |
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John's work has received critical acclaim across the country for his down to earth, deadpan style which makes merry from the mundane. |
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Unfortunately our guide soon brought us down to earth, explaining that this giant will not stop growing and is in reality a forest-eating ogre, spewing out noise and pollution. |
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Sometimes it's a good thing to be brought down to earth. |
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Keeping our feet on the floor is the challenge now but the boys are really down to earth and there are no big-timers at the club. |
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The assassinations of political heroes like Martin Luther King brought the love-in era down to earth. |
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Extremely sweet, down to earth, simple and natural. |
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And Michele is always incredibly down to earth with others. |
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However, the youngest Germany squad at a FIFA World Cup in 76 years were quickly brought down to earth by Serbia's 1-0 win in their second outing. |
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And so it was a little jarring that after winning the biggest prize in Asian club football, Western Sydney Wanderers were brought down to earth by Oceania's only representative in the A-League, Wellington Phoenix. |
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If you ask nicely, the owner will bring you back down to earth on his skidoo. |
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If your workers' compensation expenses are soaring, take a lesson from Sky Chefs, which uses total-quality principles to keep its costs down to earth. |
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He was brought down to earth in Georgetown, however, ten days later, suffering the indignity of being run out without troubling the scorers in the victory over British Guiana. |
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