Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ She staggered and fell ; nearly blinded with the blood that rained down from a deep gash in her forehead ; but raising herself with difficulty … breathed one prayer for mercy to her Maker . |
| 13 | All she knew was when they began to leave the straggling apartment block on the edge of town , because she felt him slide into another gear and the engine opened out with a deep growl , and then they were climbing , climbing , following the sinuous trail deep into a cleft in the mountains . |
| 14 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 15 | Carrie got up with a deep sigh . |
| 16 | Hence the need to stress at the outset that Nizan 's adult development can be correctly understood only as a deep involvement in the communist party , a process of attraction-repulsion in which Nizan was both deeply committed to and deeply compromised by the party itself . |
| 17 | Now she thought ‘ Mother ’ deliberately , summoning up from a deep centre the bossy voice which had haunted her and with it a sweet softness , older still and loving . |
| 18 | CHARLES WOKE as if his body was being dragged out of a deep pit , and memory returned slowly to his pounding head . |
| 19 | Under harder acceleration it intrudes , finishing up as a deep , rough-edged sounding beat at full throttle . |
| 20 | He quietened down then , shaking his head like a man coming out of a deep sleep . |
| 21 | Why do n't I do the first half and you have an early night , and I 'll wake you at two o'clock ? ’ , knowing full well how awful it is to be woken out of a deep sleep at 2am to start work . |
| 22 | But just then one of the girl 's flailing blows hit home , and the man swore savagely in a deep , and somehow unforgettable voice . |
| 23 | Joseph himself had attracted more laughter by excusing himself before dinner and going directly to horses ; there he had fallen immediately into a deep , peaceful sleep that lasted until the dawn cries of the jungle birds roused him , and when he rose he had felt clear-headed and exultant . |
| 24 | As he reached it , the ground fell away from under him and he rolled down into a deep ditch . |
| 25 | The sound died down to a deep rumbling , a mummummummum that still had a feel-it-in-the-bone quality . |
| 26 | He was just thinking about the boy in the Post Office when he fell instantly into a deep sleep . |
| 27 | One walked straight towards me , lurching , with his head tilted , as if in a dream , and fell straight into a deep crater . |
| 28 | This was something that Picasso had also conveyed in the necks of the Horta figures , where the area between the projecting tendons appears to have been cut back into a deep recess . |
| 29 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 30 | A bolt of lightning ripped it open , and the light was followed closely by a deep rumble of thunder . |