Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] deep [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With the nine survivors on board the lifeboat moved off into deeper water and the two men checked the vessel .
2 The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France .
3 There was a light in the next window and she drew back into deep shadow .
4 Many Norwegians participate in mountain rescue , which is usually carried out in deep snow .
5 And best of all , inevitably , the celestial ‘ Car Wash Hair ’ is included here , where the band successfully sound like an entire orchestra swapping instruments mid-song , just about keeping their cool and gliding off into deep melody space , against the odds , with real elegant chaos .
6 They encountered no difficulties en route , although they had to traverse one of the most dangerous ambush points in all South Scotland , at Pease Dean , where the Lammermuirs came directly down to the coast in steep wooded slopes cut up by deep ravines , and round which travellers had to wend their narrow , devious way .
7 It was written out of deep respect for the victims and their kin , and The Smiths felt it was an important enough song to put on their last single even though it had already been released on L.P. In a word it is a memorial to the children and all like them who have sufferered such a fate .
8 The face was long and pale , with a shaggy beard and eyes that seemed to look out from deep hollows .
9 The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf .
10 Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows .
11 James Bell waggoned out of Deep Level 1,625 @ 4½d. , and from Paddy End and the Kernal Vein 730 at 3½id. per 100 .
12 If it were travelling at any other velocity , it would either move out into deep space , or crash into the Sun , or move into another orbit .
13 Small , immature goats suffer most ; they find moving around in deep snow most difficult and demanding .
14 Human relationships can not usually be kept within neat bounds by both partners , but tend to spill over in deep emotions of pain and anger .
15 In some places the path we followed was marked out by deep scratches in the rocks , made by the claws of countless rockhopper penguins who have followed the same traditional route for centuries .
16 He feared it might end up in deep humiliation .
17 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 .
18 ‘ I bin out in deep snow before you was even thought of . ’
19 The conference focused on the problem of migratory fish stocks , preyed on by deep sea fleets outside individual countries ' 200-mile exclusive economic zones .
20 Whereas the shelter drawings had shown recumbent figures in still poses of monumental vulnerability , in the mines Moore faced new challenges : ‘ There was first the difficulty of seeing forms emerging out of deep darkness , the problem of conveying the claustrophobic effects of countless pit-props … receding into blackness , and of expressing the gritty , grubby smears of black coal-dust on the miners ’ bodies at the same time as the anatomy underneath ’ .
21 It is from this position that the EC is seeking to move on to deeper integration by the creation of the SEM and the movement towards EMU .
22 But finally a muddy old train trundles in from deepest Essex , chattering to itself like the Little Red Engine : ‘ I 'm a good little engine , I climbed over the hill . ’
23 FOUR intrepid Everest climbers had to admit defeat last night as they were beaten back by deep snow and bitter winds on the riskiest bid in history .
24 She did not smile now but her eyelids with those amazing lashes slowly closed and Abigail gave a sigh , wriggled her body , moved her head and subsided back into deep sleep .
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