Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] deep " 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 | There was a trap-door in the centre of the kitchen floor , which led down to a deep cellar . |
| 3 | The men paused in their tracks , locating the sound , and within seconds we were hurrying back to a place that we 'd passed where the sheer slope of the mountain was broken only by the deep rift of a water-course . |
| 4 | No need for us all to go in at the deep end . ’ |
| 5 | Because she , she goes in off the deep end and you |
| 6 | At Charing Cross the boatman began to pull in as the deep bend in the river became more pronounced . |
| 7 | But you can see if this lot gets converted to carbonate and then that water then gets mixed down to the deep water , it will be replaced at the surface with water which has a low carbonate concentration which will suck more C O two out of the atmosphere . |
| 8 | Let's jump in at the deep end — literally . |
| 9 | ‘ Mind you , they never actually say when , and you did rather get dropped in at the deep end . |
| 10 | It is possible to jump in at the deep end , buy a farm , and teach yourself , learning by your mistakes . |
| 11 | If it is too drastic to jump in at the deep end with such a sweeping change , why not try it out in experimental matches , festival or night matches ? |
| 12 | And as Cram prepared to jump in at the deep end with a clash against Olympic 10,000m champion Khalid Skah in the BUPA International Festival of Running , race organiser Brendan Foster tipped his pal to rekindle memories of his glory days in his new event . |
| 13 | Not wanting to jump in at the deep end , I hired the school the day before and went with Karen , a friend who wanted to give her experienced but spooky horse an indoor schooling session . |
| 14 | Lightning forked overhead , illuminating the camp like day , and thunder crashed deafeningly through the deep darkness that followed . |
| 15 | She had curled up in the deep old window seat , the velvet coverlet from the bed wrapped about her for warmth , and had drifted in and out of an uneasy sleep . |
| 16 | They had splashed through two brooks and wandered fearfully in the deep woodlands west of Ecchinswell . |
| 17 | Our dwelling place was clean and very isolated ; for we were tucked away in a deep hollow , and all around the tumbling sand dunes encompassed us about . |
| 18 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 19 | We returned from our walk aglow with wind-reddened cheeks , divested ourselves of boots and outer layers of wrapping and flopped down in the deep chairs of the sunset-lit lounge chatting , until David left at around 10 p.m . |
| 20 | No one who contemplates the brutal war that has racked Croatia over the last few months can do so without a deep feeling of sorrow and shame : sorrow that such devastation and misery should disfigure our continent in 1991 , and shame that we have been unable to do anything to halt the carnage and destruction . |
| 21 | Silence came only in the deep watches of the night . |
| 22 | Here a great trough that is filled with Caenozoic sediments in northern Java and Sumatra ( where a sediment supply was available ) passes directly into a deep oceanic trough — the famous Flores Deep — where there was no such supply . |
| 23 | Even the tail is carefully protected , fitting snugly into a deep groove on the animal 's rump , where two sheets of armour meet in a vertical cleft . |
| 24 | There was no need for a water-filled moat , although there was a drawbridge , for the nearest stack to land was separated therefrom by a deep tidal creek with beetling walls . |
| 25 | At very much the same hour Edmund Mortimer came out of the deep sleep that follows fever , and opened his eyes reluctantly , remembering instantly and ruefully a day and a night of indignity and discomfort before he had lost all sense of place , time and direction , and finally of his own identity . |
| 26 | Charles dropped immediately into a deep sleep where lumbering Thurber cartoon figures with guns in their hands chased him through a landscape of pastel green , dotted with red flowers . |
| 27 | Stukeley 's brief description ( p. 84 , Vol. i ) reads ‘ Brigcasterton … was fenced about with a deep mote on two sides , the river supplying its use on the other two ; for it stands at an angle , and the Romans made a little curve in the road here on purpose to take it in , as it offered itself so conveniently , then rectified the obliquity on the other side of the town ; it consists of one street running through its length upon the road ; the great ditch and banks are called the Dikes . |
| 28 | Mr Sands , a pale , shy young man , had taken one look at Mr Cochrane 's vivid servant girl and had fallen promptly into a deep and worshipful love for her , a fact written on his ingenuous face . |
| 29 | Stockings were rolled ; nightdresses folded and piled , sachets between each ; camisoles threaded anew with narrow ribbon after every washing all glimmered secretly in a deep drawer . |
| 30 | ‘ I think he is now a far better player than the youngster we threw in at the deep end against Wales last season . |