Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] down into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beetles burrow under the dead animals , removing the earth from below so that the animals sink down into the soil , where they are rolled into balls for the reception of the beetles ' eggs and developing larvae . |
| 2 | The ponies walked slowly because their feet went down into the snow . |
| 3 | Our immediate problems were sorting out our living arrangements , for although it had been agreed with Tandri that we would occupy the ship 's only excuse for a cabin we now found our things moved down into the hold . |
| 4 | Several nearby windows came up and a number of guns flew down into the street . |
| 5 | From year to year they used the same handrails to go down into the past : lifting the cartwheel at the crossroads , the drilling sessions by the river , the first ambush , marching at night between the safe houses , the different characters in the houses , the food , the girls … |
| 6 | From there they went darting across the boiling surface like a dragon-fly , skimming with the currents where the banks were swept too open and smooth to hold flotsam , swinging aside round the sergeant 's paddle in the marked spots ; round the shovel-shaped end of Eel Island , which had scooped up a full load of branches , twigs , uprooted grass , and even more curious trophies , but not what they were seeking ; a little way down the sluggish backwater beyond , until motion ceased in stagnant shallows , and still there was nothing ; out into the flood again , hopping back on to the current as on to a moving belt that whisked them away ; revolving out of the race again where the trees leaned down into the water at the curve by the Lacey farm , acting like a great , living grille to filter out debris ; clean across the width of the river at the next coil , to where the long , sandy shallow ran out and encircled a miniature beach . |
| 7 | To make the railings , press halved cocktail sticks point down into the icing at 2cm ( ¾inch ) intervals all the way round the front edge of the deck — about eighteen in all . |
| 8 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 9 | The young Germans went down into the crypt , pulling you after them . |
| 10 | Both arms plunged down into the water , but she was able to steady herself by pressing her hands on the stony bed . |
| 11 | Be was considerably taken aback when he felt two sharp prongs projecting down into the vagina beside the cervix . |
| 12 | Hanging vines drip down into the canyon which resounds with the sounds of frogs and birds and the sweet smell of Madonna lilies . |
| 13 | The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles . |
| 14 | Two children climb down into the hole ( having first borrowed a rope ladder ! ) and try to talk to the creature . |
| 15 | Slowly , inch by inch , the three men advanced the half mile across no-man's-land , towards the Allied front line , pressing their faces back down into the mud whenever the moon reappeared from behind its unreliable screen . |
| 16 | The porridge tasted very good ( 48-hour ration pack style ) and hard tack biscuits ground down into the tea , not too bad . |
| 17 | A moment later the hatch shot open and men in boots came down into the hold , their voices loud in the confined space . |
| 18 | No there 're great big yellow marks across the road with big arrows facing down into the village now . |
| 19 | Moving on from Port Erin there 's a mountain section over the three summits of Bredda Hill , Lhiattee ny Beinee and Cronk ny Arrey Las with the western sides of the hills falling down into the west side of the island to Point of Ayre there are long sections of lonely beach walks . |
| 20 | Leaving the grassland behind , the terrain became more barren with cliffs and rocks tumbling down into the sea . |
| 21 | A short ladder pitch from one of the ventilation shafts led down into the level . |
| 22 | It grows on the surface , and the roots hang down into the water , hopefully absorbing nutrients . |
| 23 | For a second the boat began to turn on its side , then the oars went down into the water and the boat came down the side of the wave . |
| 24 | The blackened roots reach down into the water itself , like the arms of a negro tickling trout . |