Example sentences of "down through a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The river is impressive , tumbling down through a deep gorge , from which it has cut weird and wonderfully shaped holes in the smooth rock . |
| 2 | So you are forced to swing east again and stumble down through a dense birch forest until you reach the wire bridge , and retrace your steps back along the tourist path . |
| 3 | The hole you dig should be round , not square , since there is much less effort expended in digging a round hole — and if the digging is down through a grassed surface the size of the hole can be anticipated and one complete turf taken out to be replaced later . |
| 4 | The tricky part would come when they had to leave the straight track and turn down through a gate and a field , but magic never worked if the thing you had to do was too easy . |
| 5 | ( ii ) Pipette small groups of embryos ( 3–4 ) up and down through a micropipette with a bore slightly less than the diameter of the embryos . |
| 6 | We cut off down through a sloping jumble of gritstone boulders , rabbits everywhere starting for cover , all thankfully too fast for Bill or Eddy . |
| 7 | Here stood the little house looking down through a frame of brown granite to the plain below . |
| 8 | Then we were lifted down through a trap door and laid on a mattress . |
| 9 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |
| 10 | She helped Caspar to spread out the map and , together , they traced the road from Tara along the sides of the Wolfwood and down through a couple of tiny villages . |
| 11 | You , you come down through a field with a lot of beasts in it ? |
| 12 | Its great plug was lifted up or dropped down through a tubular cage of brass , and its brass taps gaped wide as the mouths of sea lions . |
| 13 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 14 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 15 | A woman in a heavy coat , head-scarf and fur-lined boots stood patiently holding a string which ran down through a circular hole in the ice . |
| 16 | You are saying that I will not ride there , or open a hollowing , or step down through a cave , but must find the threshold to a journey inwards . |
| 17 | If two trains pass in opposite directions , each travelling at 125 m.p.h. , a passenger in one train will hear the whistle of the other train swoop down through a particularly dramatic Doppler Shift , since the relative velocity is 250 m.p.h . |
| 18 | The operation involved making a hole at the back of the head , another hole in the tummy and re-routing the fluid from the brain down through a tube under the skin . |
| 19 | Occasionally with him she had the sense she was going down through a hole in the floor . |