Example sentences of "[verb] down into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a hundred years ' time a solitary figure might well be seen on a lonely road gazing down into the valley , wondering about ‘ Little Hintock ’ . |
| 2 | At the end of the gallery the girl halted , gazing down into the hall through one of the archways cut into the wall . |
| 3 | In another mood , while gazing down into the vapour one could imagine the turbulent creation of the Earth with the alpha tracks like mountain ranges constantly forming , disappearing and reforming . |
| 4 | He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray . |
| 5 | She got down into the hall . |
| 6 | Some geezer got down into the tunnels and found his way out . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But when she had washed her hair and dressed in a new pair of designer jeans and a silk shirt that had been a Christmas present and which she 'd never worn before — it was n't to Eva 's house that she went but back down into the town , towards the theatre and the Franz Joseph . |
| 9 | Sleek towers that were telescoping down into the undercity , leaving great smooth plazas where they had previously reared , chequerboard-patterned spaces with a hint of roof outlines . |
| 10 | Leaving the grassland behind , the terrain became more barren with cliffs and rocks tumbling down into the sea . |
| 11 | Louise cried out as she felt her body tumbling down into the blackness . |
| 12 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 13 | The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring . |
| 14 | A possible framework for comprehensive assessment is offered through the concepts of quality of life and risk : two related , multidimensional concepts which can be translated into statements of purpose and scope as well as broken down into the factors which constitute quality of life and risk . |
| 15 | Reconsider this planned essay with the introduction broken down into the parts as suggested . |
| 16 | Misumenops nepenthicola , a spider , lives there and captures flies ; if these are distasteful they are ( sometimes ) thrown back into the pitcher ; if disturbed , the spider goes down into the liquid on a thread , its armour and a bubble of air making it immune to the digestive juices there . |
| 17 | Your name goes down into the future as Mary Shelley . ’ |
| 18 | Would he , seventeen years afterwards , be able to rediscover the mouth of the hole that led down into the Goughdale Mine ? |
| 19 | A short ladder pitch from one of the ventilation shafts led down into the level . |
| 20 | A twisting road led down into the bushes , and the Doctor set off down it . |
| 21 | We tumbled down into the hole like so many Alices and gazed in wonder around us . |
| 22 | The tape measure had now to go down into the hollow as well as across the circle , and it was not long enough to do this . |
| 23 | And was the water there to go down into the villages ? |
| 24 | 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 … |
| 25 | Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley . |
| 26 | My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place . |
| 27 | Nevertheless : If a teacher has , himself , to go down into the library with the whole class , or if you can only afford a third of a teacher to be in the library at certain times , then you are quite simply restricting the amount of work that can go on . |
| 28 | Agnes stood directly in front of her mother now as she said , ‘ Would it do you any harm either to go down into the shop or to go over to the house and change the linen ? |
| 29 | From this vantage you peer down into the crater lake , its surface green with the fresh growth of ‘ totora ’ , a reed otherwise known only in the Andes . |
| 30 | We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door . |