Sentence examples for slips down from from inspiring English sources

As the captain maneuvered the boat away from the dock, just a few slips down from a yacht I had seen Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch use for quiet meetings, I began to get to know Bob Hanssen.

The movement of experience is both uncanny and real: "Light slips down from the Dublin hills"; meanwhile, "What will we do with the loneliness of the mythical?" In The Whole and Rain-domed Universe (Picador, £9.99), mid-generation Northern Irish Colette Bryce, now part of the English poetry establishment, has found her topic.

As the driver slipped down from his perch, Ms. Levine heard this exchange: Driver: Do you want the short ride or the long one?

Following her high profile in 2012 as presenter of the Paralympics, Clare Balding has slipped down from last year's number four position.

Butler's Andrew Smith tipped the ball off the left side of the backboard, and Howard slipped down from above the free-throw line, snared the tipped ball and laid it in.

Indeed, the commission would almost inevitably become less powerful, slipping down from being a European government in embryo to something much closer to a civil service.Mr Giscard d'Estaing has not pronounced publicly on what he thinks of the idea of an elected president of the council.

Clegg, who oversaw his party slipping down from 57 to eight MPs after its time in coalition with the Tories, joked that Cameron had once again overshadowed his work this week by deciding to step down on the same day as his book was launched.

The shell, which I sliced off with a knife to get into my egg, is made of chalky calcium carbonate, and it was added to my egg as it slipped down from the hen's oviduct into its shell gland or uterus.

During repair a road bridge over important railway lines suddenly slipped down from temporary supports.

"At one point she slipped down from the chair and the risk of injury to the unborn child was significant," the report said.

Warriors had designs on taking top spot in the Pro12 but could find themselves slipping down from second to fourth once the weekend is over, following their second loss of the season.