Example sentences of "[vb -s] down into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Your name goes down into the future as Mary Shelley . ’ |
| 4 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
| 5 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
| 6 | He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls . |
| 7 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 8 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 9 | At the top the beetles have discovered the dead mouse ; they bury it by tunnelling beneath it and removing the earth from below so that it drops down into the excavation ; at the bottom as the mouse sinks down into the earth the beetles roll it into a ball ready for the reception of their eggs . |
| 10 | As the water trickles down into the water table , the rivers receive a constant supply of water and can irrigate agricultural land effectively . |
| 11 | Entering Biarritz by the coast road like this , you end by driving along the Avenue Édouard VII , which leads down into the centre of the town and sets the tone for a resort that was for a while Europe 's princeliest . |
| 12 | Yeah it does , it all washes down into the garden you see cos the garden 's on a slope and the field , the field slopes straight into the garden , and when we have , when we really have lots and lots of rain , you look out your back windows and there 's about that much lying there , cos it 's running down and it ca n't get past the houses , so it just builds up and floods |
| 13 | Mops his brow with a sweat band on his left wrist , straightens up now , comes steaming in again to bowl to that 's a quick ball and fends down into the gully , off the back foot , short bouncing steered it down too smooth . |
| 14 | It 's okay in cold water , but when you heat it up it breaks down into the carbonate , C A C O three . |
| 15 | For every year at midwinter the sun grows weak and pale , and he sinks down into the marshes to spend the long winter night there , and Mokosh , the old witch , his foster-mother , nurses him until he is strong again , with herbs and spells and incantations . |
| 16 | At the top the beetles have discovered the dead mouse ; they bury it by tunnelling beneath it and removing the earth from below so that it drops down into the excavation ; at the bottom as the mouse sinks down into the earth the beetles roll it into a ball ready for the reception of their eggs . |
| 17 | Over the footbridge , past Five Thorns Plantation , through Tank Wood and across the weir which splashes down into the River Poulter . |
| 18 | The lower side of the film is softened and , as the solvent evaporates , the film settles down into the irregularities of the etched face and produces the replica . |
| 19 | Ensure that no masonry falls down into the cavity , where it could interfere with the wall ties . |
| 20 | The vines are greedy — hardy , and they push deep roots down into the soil , but they are also vulnerable . |
| 21 | ‘ This part of the kitchen was originally a coal shed and it was a very dark and dingy area , ’ Pauline explains , ‘ so we knocked down the adjoining wall and opened up the staircase that comes down into the corner of the kitchen . |
| 22 | Some kinds of worm plug their burrows by pulling leaves down into the opening . |
| 23 | Obtainable under the proprietary name Chlordane , the toxin gradually works down into the soil diffusing into the soil atmosphere . |