Example sentences of "down the [adj] [noun sg] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five minutes later Léonie walked carefully down the stone-flagged passage into the kitchen . |
| 2 | You end up er collapsed , taking deep breaths , and what that is trying to do is that the deep breaths are circulating oxygen into the body , the oxygen is then able to break down the lactic acid into other substances which are less harmful . |
| 3 | Oliver peered down the greasy ladder into the tiny engine room . |
| 4 | As this happens , the fertilised egg is carried down the fallopian tube into the uterus . |
| 5 | On the way back from the classical ruins of Byblos in an old red and green school bus , co-opted by the bus company for the tourist trade , we drive down the coastal highway into Beirut from the north , towards Martyrs ' Square , so soon to become the front line . |
| 6 | Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us . |
| 7 | He had been on board the Santa Maria some two hours or more working out with the Argentine naval lieutenant and the tug 's engineers just what was required to get the tow safely down the short cut into the Beagle Channel and thence to Ushuaia . |
| 8 | Donna rarely ventured down the wooden ladder into it ; it was not well lit and , despite Ward–s attempts to convince her otherwise , she was certain that the entire cellar was seething with spiders , creatures she was frightened of . |
| 9 | Many of the large old psychiatric hospitals have succeeded in making good use of their facilities , in breaking down the whole organization into smaller , semi-autonomous units , and in ensuring generally that the emphasis is on the treatment and rehabilitation of the patients rather than simply on their care and custody . |
| 10 | The Inspector edged down the confined passage into the living room which looked out on to a neat back garden . |
| 11 | At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond . |
| 12 | an illustration reproduced by breaking down the original tone into a pattern of dots of varying size . |
| 13 | As I sat there , the china spewed forth from the open door and cascaded down the ready-made ramp into my lap . |