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 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 .
4 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 .
5 And crawled over the edge of the dish and slid down into the mushy stuff .
6 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 .
7 Sky , clouds , then down into the closed world of water sound distortion .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Then she padded back into the bathroom , wriggled out of her nightie , and sank down into the hot water .
11 Sweat broke out on his face and ran in little rivulets down into the blue stubble .
12 Liz flopped down into the battered armchair opposite Linda , and glanced around the untidy playroom .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 She made it down into the long drawing-room with a sort of grim look on her face that Alain noted with a frown .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 From his own vantage point he moved forward , leaning on the parapet of Blackfriars Bridge , peering down into the murky blackness of the river .
21 And she felt herself spiralling down into the fiery darkness .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Down into the Central Line , pick up abandoned newspapers and look for that advertisement .
27 Brownie Owl was tall enough , by standing on tip toe , to look over and down into the hollow trunk of the decayed tree .
28 Looking down into the aromatic liquid , she cleared her throat .
29 Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again .
30 She had suggested that I should go and fill it , but there had been ice and snow outside , and darkness , and to reach the coal I should have to climb down into the concrete bunker .
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