It came down to the final points race of the year, and we were running good enough to beat him in final, but it was rained out. |
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He scrambled to lie flat on his stomach in the car while shards of debris rained from the skies. |
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From the opening match in which Senegal beat reigning champions France, the World Cup rained surprises upon excited fans. |
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No one knows when the lagerphone originated, but certainly when the shearers were rained in they did bush music. |
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It rained off and on all day, and we were quite content to yarn with Jean Craigie, Ernie Smith, Stan Ombler and the rest of the hut occupants. |
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In the Underground they were safe from the high explosive and incendiary bombs that rained down on London night after night. |
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The incendiaries rained down with a terrific clatter as they ricocheted off roof-tops and buildings, spitting fire as they came to rest. |
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Suddenly, the forest lit up as five bolts of white lightning rained down from the sky. |
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If your favorite ride is being rained out, there is always another spot to ride that is dry as a bone. |
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Missiles rained down on the city as fireballs went up into the night sky after the armoury at the central Ikeja barracks caught fire. |
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Mortars first rained down upon it exactly 100 years to the day after its construction began. |
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If it rained, we sat around playing backgammon and Trivial Pursuit and trying to kill time. |
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It rained so hard the stream near the baseball field behind the backstop rose high enough to cover home plate! |
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I was accustomed to bearded iris that would rot if it so much as rained for three days straight. |
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The walk up the river bed was more of a scramble, as it had rained overnight and the large, algae covered boulders were treacherous and slippery. |
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Nor does it count as an explanation of today's rainstorm to claim that it rained because a barometer reading decreased yesterday. |
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Blowing a gale and it rained just before we started but otherwise it was the super mega deluxe version of golf days with everything laid on. |
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People panicked and stampeded, blows rained down, people fell and hurt themselves in the melee. |
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And despite the fact that I've been almost exclusively mendacious since my late teens, it's not rained on me once. |
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A loud chorus of boos rained down on Guinn in rounds 8,9 and 10 for his inability send Banks to the showers early. |
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It had rained all weekend and I was not in the mood to haul a sodden plant into the house and bellow songs. |
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The twister or funnel cloud was spotted at around 4pm yesterday as a torrential downpour rained on the town. |
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That night it rained torrentially, turning the ground to a mass of slick mud, and in the darkness I fell repeatedly. |
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One book I read described it glittering in the sunshine, but to my disappointment it rained torrentially the next day. |
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The track had been rained on for the better part of 40 days, I heard Noah had entered but sadly this was not the case. |
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It rained heavily during the afternoon, which made the stages very muddy and treacherously slippy. |
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In retaliation, catapults, trebuchets and arrows from the Bismarck archers rained down on the Mongols. |
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The gray skies have lingered all day, but it has not rained or even mizzled. |
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We had caps that had to be blancoed, I remember that clearly because when it rained on parade it caused problems. |
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Hundred of missiles rained over the population of twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad killing more than 100 people at the time. |
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The enemy rained down explosives and incendiary bombs and then dumped barrels of oil onto the flames. |
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The well-behaved children sat on the floor, which when it rained, became muddy. |
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Came home to warm, muggy weather and, apparently, it rained here at the house. |
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The passage Ruse had found was dark and damp and the air smelled like wet grass after it had rained hard for several days. |
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I swear that it rained for 72 hours with no more than a 5 minute break for smoko. |
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It rained and snowed the whole next day, but as night set in, the clouds began to break. |
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And even then the tournament fell victim to the vagaries of the British weather when the final was rained off for three days. |
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Their thick, viscous blood rained heavy upon the ground, oozing into scale, skin and fur. |
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It rained non-stop for three days prior to the fight date, a steady downpour such as only Southeast Asia can produce. |
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It had rained continuously for the previous two days, but the sun was out now and the forecast good. |
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It was an overcast morning with thunderstorms predicted, and although it rained and hailed around lunchtime, most of the day remained fine. |
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The BBC did use new footage briefly, which showed the camerawoman cowering in a cafe as debris rained down outside. |
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I wrapped it in cardboard and a jumper then put it in a bin liner in case it rained. |
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Every time it rained, which was often in Miami, the belt would slip on the pulley and it would take a lot of pumping to get the motor to catch. |
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The more it rained and the more the horses churned up the ground with their hooves, the worse it got. |
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Abysmal weather today, it rained all day and absolutely chucked it down as I left work making driving home not much fun. |
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Long and short range artillery, rockets, missiles, howitzers, and mortars rained fire and death from the sky. |
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I had the wildly inaccurate thought that it never rained in Southern California. |
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Bits of wood, leaves, pine cones, stones and the odd lump of twisted metal rained down onto the clearing. |
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The air was instantly filled with smoke and dust, and shards of debris rained down around them. |
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It rained hard enough to chase us off the lake and back to the cabin to fire up the wood stove. |
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She watched as the firecrackers rained down from the planes overhead and exploded into fireballs. |
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A different set of lips, soft and pliant, not demanding, rained kisses down his throat, then stopped. |
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When it rained, he would just drive, as if the road were an irresistible river carrying him away. |
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The hail of energy pulses was too much for the copter's armoured hull to take, as it exploded and debris rained down onto the street far below. |
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A keen gardener got the shock of her life when a freak storm rained 20 crabs down on her. |
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The roofing company failed to tarp my roof, and when it rained my French doors suffered extensive damage. |
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As it rained heavily outside his home fronting Tampa Bay, Lopez delved into the past. |
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However, we are not having much luck in York because our fun run at the race course was rained off this year. |
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It was understood that when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. |
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After that the abuse rained down continually upon the hapless Mr O'Brien, like rocks and pumice from a spluttering volcano. |
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Fortunately for us, it rained heavily in the evening so the bars closed quite early for the night and we managed to get some sleep. |
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When it rained the smallest drops of water could drip on your body through the wicker. |
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When it rained or snowed, the little carbine was compact enough to fit under your slicker and to tuck up under your arm. |
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I worked in Lancashire for a few years, and in my first January there it rained every day. |
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As she headed toward the front door, droplets of water rained down on her from the sky. |
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It wasn't very hot and it rained some of the time and so we had to have our waterproofs with us most of the time. |
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A great noise of clanging metal filled the air, and filled Ivya with a type of battle rage as she rained down blows on her brother. |
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It was fantastic to be living there, apart from the fact it rained all week. |
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As usual the forecast was wrong and it rained all day but despite this, we had a very good time. |
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I kept staring up, my head bent back and stared as the smoky gray clouds rained on me. |
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The skies thundered and rained, and its color was a combination of what seemed to be every color known to man. |
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Blows rained down on me from all sides and I fell to the floor under a merciless avalanche of abuse. |
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As the bombs rained down I instinctively dropped to ground, the kids immediately followed suit. |
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Trapped Rafah residents huddled in the innermost rooms of their homes as bullets rained outside. |
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Bombs burst from above like rolling cracks of thunder as shrapnel rained down from the sky, expended from death black clouds. |
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A brass band played and confetti rained over the site after workers poured the last batch of concrete. |
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Along with the gusty winds, torrential rains and the punishing power shutdowns, it rained snakes of all sizes and colours on the city. |
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It was just a shame last week's match against Coventry was rained off because they needed the run-out. |
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With more inclement weather forecast for today, there is a good possibility the match could be rained out. |
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If games in the early part of the season were rained out, you knew they could be made up during the visiting team's next trip into town. |
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Bauser said the board still had to pay its staff and caterers even if the match was rained out. |
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After plans for a day out on Friday were rained off, we went off to Chester Zoo yesterday and even had some sunshine. |
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If the second match was rained off, but the third final went ahead, that would decide a 2-0 series winner. |
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On a day when all the Second Division matches were rained off, Windhill and Salts fell victim to the inevitable with their game finely balanced. |
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The Strathmore Mosquito team was to play their first tournament this past weekend, but they were rained out. |
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Their game against the Montreal Expos was rained out by one of the worst rainstorms in an area known for its tropical storms. |
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It had rained briefly that evening, a hard downpour that meant the rattlers would be out, having been flushed from their holes. |
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He watched as the glass rained down slowly to the ground, emeralds falling from the tower, which was now aflame. |
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He fell to the ground, hard, and had to curl himself into a ball as kicks were rained on his body. |
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Hay waiting to be baled may have to remain in the windrow for a week and can virtually be ruined for feeding to heavy milking cows, if rained on. |
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The vaults were last used 60 years ago as air-raid shelters when Hitler's bombs rained down during the Second World War. |
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He said he was checking to see if the gun had any water in it, as it had rained the night before. |
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The Saharan winds were blowing sand onto fertile hillsides, and when it rained the water was cutting gullies through the rich alluvial soil along the wadi. |
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Not long after this damning report, criticism again rained on the Bank. |
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Flames shot out of the side of the building and debris rained down. |
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It was November 19, 1940, and the bombs rained down for hours and hours. |
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Above was nothing, but a pale pink glow even as it rained flowers. |
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This night couldn't get any better if it rained rubies and diamonds. |
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Contractors who had planned to lay down white lines to form narrow lanes over the weekend were rained off and the 10-month project had to be postponed. |
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Then down came the deluge and it rained like I have never seen. |
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If the match is rained out, and New Zealand beats Canada today, NZ will proceed ahead of SA to the Super Sixes, along with Kenya and probably Sri Lanka. |
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It rained, a fine, misty, penetrating rain, driven by a chill wind. |
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It has been pouring down nearly all day. we did some vital shopping this morning and this afternoon we were going to have a wonder into town but alas we were rained off. |
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A week's rainfall fell overnight, almost a normal month's total rained down over the week, and mountains of water came swilling down on Ilkley from the moors. |
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We have been extremely fortunate and the event was rained off only once. |
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It has rained and blown a gale continuously now for over thirty hours! |
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A little rain this morning followed by some sun tempted us out to Wimborne for a look around the market which was seriously curtailed as we were rained off. |
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I tried to go see the Danville Braves, but their game was rained out. |
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As all matches were rained off what will happen to that match? |
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It had rained a bit last night and the air was foggy and misty. |
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However, he showed signs he had turned the corner with a quickfire 42 against Zimbabwe in the VB Series on Thursday before the match was rained off. |
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A fleet of trucks and buses arrived as shells rained down, whisking people away to tents outside Mogadishu. |
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The park could have encountered a festival-style mudbath if it had rained. |
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Alvarez and Marx watched as bright orange columns of flame rained down upon the wretched tangle of vines and smoke started to trail up behind them. |
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At times, as the curses and the anathemas rained upon him, he held his hands out in front of him, like a school nerd begging the bullies not to hit him again. |
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The air was fresh and clean as if it had rained the night before. |
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But it hadn't rained in seven months, and the country's firefighting budget had been downscaled over several decades. |
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It had rained while we were inside and the air in the alley smelled almost fresh. |
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Sadly though, it then rained again and the match was abandoned. |
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As fire raged beneath, chunks of debris rained down from above. |
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Opening the innings with Jonathan Beukes, Bosman rained balls into the crowd as he hit nine sixes and seven fours in his 45 ball stay at the crease. |
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It had rained all night and was still drizzling when I headed for the Hawthorne Race Course in suburban cicero, Illinois. |
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So whenever it rained, we had to pull over every two miles and take a squeegee to it. |
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The Marine platoon on Vegas, near Bunker Hill, took cover in its last remaining bunker as shells rained down, and then was sealed in by an earthfall. |
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One after another bulleted serves rained in, one of which took out a ballgirl, leaving her with a bruise as a souvenir and Rusedski's match shirt as an apology. |
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It is the drones that have rained unsuspecting civilian death from the sky. |
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It finally rained at night, quiet but intense rain, the sort where you look out and see sheets of water moving across vast tracts of Singapore like a purposive entity. |
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Sanju Baba, we learn, is rather miffed at the way Kunder rained on his parade and took away the spotlight from Agneepath's success. |
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All day long we'd swing through the cypresses on the rope vines, and if it rained we'd huddle beneath an umbrella tree and play stickfrog. |
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A zinc factory in Magnitogorsk suffered a partially collapsed roof and walls after meteor pieces rained on the town. |
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It rained every day from 29 October 2006 to 21 January 2007, 85 consecutive days. |
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The day's play had been rained off and I was taking a power nap in the afternoon. |
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In the 1800s, when baseball games were rained out, spectators received a rain check for admission to a future game at no extra cost. |
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The attackers surrounded the entire Roman army, and rained down javelins on the intruders. |
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The attack was carried out by 334 bombers that in a few minutes rained 1,100 tons of bombs on the inner city. |
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We used to keep a rain day reserved for this issue. However, nine times out of ten it rained on that day, too. |
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Twice it rained in the night, but it was a gentle rain, whimpering featherily on the skin coverings of the conical lodges. |
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So many of them rained down upon us that the captain was shot through the right leg with a poisoned arrow. |
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Ireland would have faced the Netherlands in the final, however the match was rained off and the teams shared the trophy. |
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In the forenoon it rained, and in the afternoon I looked round the housen to see the damage they did the town. |
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It had rained in the night, and some of the ocotillo fences had sprouted some green. |
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It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down. |
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The night was very dark and it rained heavily, the roads were so bad that the troops had to cut trees and corduroy the road a part of the way, to get through. |
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The buildup in household cesspools could sometimes overflow, especially when it rained, and was washed into London's streets and sewers which eventually led to the Thames. |
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The boxer's fists rained down on his opponent in the last round. |
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Chirophobia is a fear of hands, dipsophobia, ecophobia and ombrophobia is a fear of rain or of being rained upon, so always remember to take your ombrella. |
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In a variety of 1940s costumes, he will show how eccentric pilots, spivs and WAAFs all did their bit to keep our comedic bit up as Hitler's bombs rained down on Merseyside. |
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Their plans to go hiking Saturday fell through because it rained. |
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I know God by Miracle can instruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raised the Apostles from letterless Fisher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours. |
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You can have pluviophobia, the fear of being rained on, or peladophobia, the fear of bald people, but there is no medical term for the fear of doors. |
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By the time law and order had been restored, chunks of La-La land resembled the ruins of Baghdad after the missiles that rained down during the Gulf War. |
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Newport County 1, Connah's Quay Nomads 1 THE Connah's Quay's goal area was like a firing range at a fun fair as Newport County rained shots at the target. |
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