Jim now did those dusting downs that people do after they've fallen over.

'That was quite close,' said John, dusting down his trousers.

"You can't be," said the instructor, dusting down the green parachute suit.

Holiday preparation used to mean dusting down a suitcase and chucking in a few clothes.

Lilian's given it a really good dusting down.

Moments later, Lucky was fetching slippers, laying out the tea service and dusting down the coffee table.

Corum grinned at him and climbed out, dusting down his garments.

'Thank God for that,' Winnie said, emerging from under and dusting down her clothing.

He was scraping the mud of the streets off his boots and dusting down his shoulders as if the rain itself might be contaminated.

Across the centuries and over many years, Terry Deary has been dusting down history and making it come alive.

Omally struggled to his feet and took to dusting down his tweeds with his one good hand.

Following the booming impact, Je-remy/Apollo could hear the little fragments raining, dusting down.

Sivell seems to have the old and young balanced quite well and he will have to stop himself from dusting down the mantlepiece once more.

Noises off is dusting down its loudspeaker and daubing slogans onto placards as theatre bloggers try to make their voices heard.

They made a tiny dry rustling sound, like long linen wrappings falling away from a mummy's face, like dead moth wings dusting down.

Dusting down his rubber gloves with a tube of baby powder, he drew them over his sensitive fingers and flexed these magical appendages.

"Dusting Down the Stars" (2007)

Obviously asymmetry has to be taken out of the cupboard and given a good dusting down and has to be discussed very fully in the negotiations.

Flushing guiltily as she remembered unwillingly all that she had felt, she bent her head and made a pretence of dusting down her suit.

Mobile - "Dusting Down The Stars" (post-production by: Steve Mottershead)

On the other hand, however, to turn a blind eye and pretend that nothing is 'going on' in Gaza, for example, is a huge mistake that prevents us from dusting down the problems.

Swan's own majority had been 9,000, which made the constituency marginal by today's standards, so with the party's survival plan built around clinging on until June, the Ulster Unionists would be dusting down their wish list right now.

According to the Daily Telegraph , an interview in the Washington Post with NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana revealing a dusting down of Kosovo invasion plans was "arranged" by the White House.

Party veterans are dusting down old contacts books under the gaze of yellowing propaganda portraits of Suu Kyi's father, Burma's independence leader General Aung San, and more recent pictures of the graceful and iconic opposition leader herself.

At least last night's rain still holds the dust down, she thought.

They disappeared in a cloud of dust down the long road to the east.

For all the dust down here his black suit looked quite untouched.

Dust down, right the wrongs and move on is the way to go.

On clear days, workers spray the piles with water to keep the dust down.

Was there a big trail of dust down the corridor or something as a.

It's common sense to keep the dust down, as the kitchen is probably the most difficult place to clean up properly.

The one that's gathering dust down at the warehouse right now?

We moved slowly, trying to keep our dust down.

"We'll spend the rest of our lives gathering dust down here!

"I went to the garage and dusted down the stock," he says.

Thousands of trees and shrubs were planted to keep the dust down.

It will dust down above this gully in just a few short moments.

Jim now did those dusting downs that people do after they've fallen over.

There was silence again except for the tiny shifting of dust down the steps.

Now, three years on, we've dusted down that show and tweaked it.

The dew that lingered on the road helped to keep the dust down.

The idea was to keep the dust down.

There was a commotion in the dust down below.

"Maybe they'll eliminate dust down at the dump," she murmured.

Another worker, using a fire hose, sprays the debris, trying to keep the dust down.

The local government enacted simple but highly effective measures like washing the streets to keep the dust down.

Time to get the (metaphorical) guillotines dusted down I think.

Therefore, a 20-year old plan can be taken off a shelf, dusted down and it does not need an environmental impact assessment for approval.

The floors were rubber-matted and had a covering of straw to keep the dust down.

That would keep the dust off his new shirt, too.

What a dusting off, as someone or other would say.

Dust off your deck and see how much you know.

So I dusted off some studies and started doing research.

Then he dusted off his hands and started across the street.

Have they been dusted off now that the war is over?

I put everything back and slapped the dust off my hands.

He was standing in the door, dusting off his hands.

I still believe the dusting off would have been received rather than given.

We'll be down for supper after we get a bit of the dust off.

Suddenly the Reverend saw some dust off to his left.

"I have to sweep the dust off my car almost every day now."

With him around, you never needed to dust off the encyclopedia.

Officials around Washington have been dusting off the analysis this week.

But you know the Republicans are already dusting off their old talking points.

Dust off your camera and take photos of whatever you like.

He dusted off a box and sat down to wait for them.

"People will sell themselves for the dust off a dollar."

She's pushing at me, trying to dust off her clothes with one hand.

"And we even found time to help you clean that dust off your uniform."

I actually got to dust off some of my old training, believe it or not."

I rinsed the dust off of my new face and put it back on.

There was no need to dust off her black pants suit.

He picked up a book and slapped the dust off it.

The priest came up to them, dusting off his hands.

He says you dust yourself off and get on with it.

"Or you can dust yourself off and go on to the next thing."

Hers was, "Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start all over again."

"And you learn to pick yourself up, and dust yourself off."

But he's a tough kid, so all you can do is pick yourself up, dust yourself off and get back to work."

"Time to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get home to the munchkins."

"But you got to get up the next morning and dust yourself off and do what you have to do."

You've got to dust yourself off and we've got another huge game against Northampton on the weekend."

"Of course, you'd have to dust yourself off with bicarb afterward," Ari continued blithely.

It's good to pick yourself up out of the rubble, dust yourself off and wonder, 'What now?' "

In 1975, a cover version of "Midnight at the Oasis" appeared on the album Dust Yourself Off by the funk band Pleasure.

URBNET1031 - Tru-Paz - Dust Yourself Off (EP)

The chorus line, "If at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off and try again", is hypnotically repeated in a fashion similar to the sampling and vocal manipulation found in house music.

But when that happens you don't ask the herd for mercy, you don't denounce the herd, you just get up, dust yourself off and get back with the flow of the herd.

You sighed, rose, dusted yourself off, and stepped into the loose-box with us, whereupon you took a tiny flint and set spark to a charming small lantern of a sort I had never seen before.

"Try Again" consisted mainly of Aaliyah mouthing a familiar saying over and over again, a kind of musical hypnosis: "If at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off and try again."

Dust Yourself Off is the debut album by Portland, Oregon-based R&B group Pleasure, released in 1975 and produced by jazz legend Wayne Henderson of the The Crusaders.

Swift quipped that the song is "about when you've gotten through a really bad relationship and you finally dust yourself off and go on that first date after a horrible breakup, and the vulnerability that goes along with all that".

This alludes to the song "Pick Yourself Up" from the 1936 film Swing Time, for which Jerome Kern had written the music, in which Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire sang Fields's words "Pick yourself up; dust yourself off; start all over again".