Example sentences of "down into the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before . |
| 2 | When he returned , carrying two mugs , she took hers automatically then stared down into the swirling liquid . |
| 3 | The illegal payments scandal brought them down to earth with a bump and down into the 3rd division . |
| 4 | Moonlight was pouring over the valley , black and silver , and presently Lugh was standing at the edge of the forest , looking down into the shallow dip that sheltered the great Manor of Tara . |
| 5 | Furious , Wilson went down into the freezing kitchen , where the well banked-up fire had not quite died down , and poked it vigorously until it began to burn up . |
| 6 | And crawled over the edge of the dish and slid down into the mushy stuff . |
| 7 | Before returning , a look down into the tremendous ravine of Ling Gill below the bridge will reveal a most impressive scene , the beck hurrying along a bouldery bed fringed by trees and cliffs on its way to join the Ribble ; several minor caves have been found and explored along its banks but the rough terrain is a deterrent to walkers who prefer to travel sedately . |
| 8 | Sky , clouds , then down into the closed world of water sound distortion . |
| 9 | As she settled down into the squashy leather upholstery of the nest-like sofa she listened with half an ear to the voices on the tape , each caller seemingly convinced that disaster would intervene if Luke did n't call them back immediately . |
| 10 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |
| 11 | Then she padded back into the bathroom , wriggled out of her nightie , and sank down into the hot water . |
| 12 | Sweat broke out on his face and ran in little rivulets down into the blue stubble . |
| 13 | Landing feet first , I broke only partway through the crust , so that nothing but my boots plunged down into the softer material beneath . |
| 14 | Liz flopped down into the battered armchair opposite Linda , and glanced around the untidy playroom . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it has taken more than just a pinch of the new S-class 's style with its first real attempt at a grille , cut down into the front bumper . |
| 16 | DESPITE forecasts last August that this would be the most competitive rugby league season in history , the only issues likely to be left in doubt tomorrow night are who will accompany Swinton down into the Second Division next season and the final line-up for the Premiership competitions . |
| 17 | Push tool down into the second stitch — the first stitch will slip behind the latch and you can ‘ crochet ’ the second stitch through the first . |
| 18 | We abandoned the last Munro , especially as it 's a top that can be combined with Meall Greigh to be bagged another day , and staggered down into the long glen that would take us back to our morning starting point . |
| 19 | She made it down into the long drawing-room with a sort of grim look on her face that Alain noted with a frown . |
| 20 | Making alterations and additions to the waste side of a two-stack system is relatively simple : the new branch waste pipe simply needs to be taken out through the wall and angled down into the nearest hopper head or gully . |
| 21 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 22 | That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen . |
| 23 | Outside on the terrace , at the point from where Francis used to dive , and made the dive that killed him , I looked down into the moon-flecked pool . |
| 24 | Granite slabs rough as gabbro ( thank heavens ! ) , curve over and fall vertically down into the boulder-filled gorge , loud with crashing waters and graced with pools of turquoise calm . |
| 25 | From his own vantage point he moved forward , leaning on the parapet of Blackfriars Bridge , peering down into the murky blackness of the river . |
| 26 | And she felt herself spiralling down into the fiery darkness . |
| 27 | He drove her to the very edge of ecstasy and then , as the quivering tide of sensation gathered momentum , he tipped her over and down into the fiery vortex . |
| 28 | When a wind-blown spore — which now can be called pollen — lands on an egg-bearing cone , it germinates , not into a filmy thallus for which there is now no need , but into a long tube which burrows its way down into the female cone . |
| 29 | Ellen twisted away and Sweetman laughed at her obvious discomfiture , then , as coolly as though he owned Wavebreaker , he stepped down into the central cockpit where he first brushed at , then sat on , one of the white cushioned seats by the ship 's wheel . |
| 30 | There is good evidence that the infall occurs right down into the central parsec , but at a much smaller rate than the overall mass inflow rate , suggesting that any accretion onto a central black hole is episodic . |