Example sentences of "down through [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |
| 2 | The river is impressive , tumbling down through a deep gorge , from which it has cut weird and wonderfully shaped holes in the smooth rock . |
| 3 | Its great plug was lifted up or dropped down through a tubular cage of brass , and its brass taps gaped wide as the mouths of sea lions . |
| 4 | A woman in a heavy coat , head-scarf and fur-lined boots stood patiently holding a string which ran down through a circular hole in the ice . |
| 5 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 6 | We cut off down through a sloping jumble of gritstone boulders , rabbits everywhere starting for cover , all thankfully too fast for Bill or Eddy . |
| 7 | So you are forced to swing east again and stumble down through a dense birch forest until you reach the wire bridge , and retrace your steps back along the tourist path . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The hole you dig should be round , not square , since there is much less effort expended in digging a round hole — and if the digging is down through a grassed surface the size of the hole can be anticipated and one complete turf taken out to be replaced later . |
| 10 | Clearly the pilot had not wasted time calculating an entry angle , but had bored down through the upper atmosphere as directly as he was able . |
| 11 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 12 | He found her where she clung to a rope that was curled up in a corner of the iron ship and picked her up and carried her through a secret tunnel down through the floor of the ship , down through the underwater creatures , deep into the earth beneath the swirling sea . |
| 13 | Dive down through the pellucid water and turn a boulder . |
| 14 | Restlessly , she rose again and continued on around the house , following a cool stone path that seemed to be sloping down through the lush growth of shrubs and trees . |
| 15 | Her fingers widened , sliding over the bunched muscles of his shoulders , down through the golden hair feathering his chest , across the ridged hardness of his stomach . |
| 16 | He went down through the lower hall to the kitchen , drank some water . |
| 17 | She stepped down through the great door knowing , from long experience of the signs , that she would find a well kept and tended church . |
| 18 | The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading . |
| 19 | The famous ceiling , where the wooden angels flew face down through the dusty air above the crowd , was so high it could scarcely be seen in the gloom . |
| 20 | Steep paths lead down through the landscaped gardens and over a foot-bridge to the main building directly across the road . |
| 21 | She had expected him to lead her around the side of the house towards the gravelled front courtyard ; instead he headed in the opposite direction , down through the wide grass path into the garden itself . |
| 22 | If you are using Windows then this scheme is particularly easy because all you have to do is click your way down through the duplicate directories in the File Manager until you ca n't find another copy of the directory and then drag the current version into the final old copy . |
| 23 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 24 | But when I mentioned that there was a legendary tunnel that ran from the battlements of Beaufort down through the sheer rock to the bottom of the Litani gorge , they leapt to their feet and bounded up one of the staircases . |
| 25 | ‘ I wish I were you , ’ Alexandra said , ‘ I wish I were a mouse , ’ and then , drawn inexorably , she leaned forward across the table and looked down through the closed window at her mother 's upturned face below . |
| 26 | Incineration is the most appropriate disposal method for many wastes which can be rendered harmless only by breaking them down through the controlled use of heat . |
| 27 | Directed by Alston , the screaming ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ turned off and shot down through the narrow side streets of the Arab quarter . |
| 28 | He had been pacing the room with slow majestic energy ending by peering down through the venetian blind at Madison below . |
| 29 | However , the extent of the command in the Great Commission is not simply the spread of the gospel outwards territorially but down through the cultural layers . |
| 30 | Decentralization from the inner parts of cities accelerated from about 1960 , affecting the largest places first and then spreading down through the urban hierarchy . |