Two senators who opposed the bill heard the noise as they walked down the steps of the capitol building.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

He says the outer parts of brown rice slow down the work of the body's digestive enzymes into starch.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Or a newspaper might report that "defense lawyers were 'battening down the hatches' for testimony by someone who observed the crime."

VOA: special.2009.05.24

When she saw Misses Smith and the children coming down the road, Misses Gray went out to meet them.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

But you do have to remember by butterflying, you are cutting down the overall height of that root ball.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

A news report,for example, might say that people in Washington were battening down the hatches for a big winter storm.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Here they can see Waimoku Falls where water drops one hundred twenty meters down the face of a mountain.

VOA: special.2010.09.08

I was glad to see his two friends, Tom and Joe, coming down the road as the sun began to set.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

Lucresi cannot!" Fortunato turned, and still holding me by the arm, pulled me down the street to my home.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Plantings in the wetlands help hold down the soil against the forces of erosion, like wind and water.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Usually the bride's father or another relative walks her down the aisle and presents her to the groom.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Louis the Fourteenth's ballet teacher Pierre Beauchamps created a way to write down the dance steps for ballet.

VOA: special.2011.01.26

Not just any woman, but a wild,red- haired woman, riding a giant catfish down the Rio Grande River.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

But before Lee could get there, Union troops -- thousands of them marched down the road below Jackson.

VOA: special.2009.09.24