Example sentences of "down through the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dive down through the pellucid water and turn a boulder . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She stepped down through the great door knowing , from long experience of the signs , that she would find a well kept and tended church . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Directed by Alston , the screaming ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ turned off and shot down through the narrow side streets of the Arab quarter . |
| 13 | He had been pacing the room with slow majestic energy ending by peering down through the venetian blind at Madison below . |
| 14 | Decentralization from the inner parts of cities accelerated from about 1960 , affecting the largest places first and then spreading down through the urban hierarchy . |
| 15 | We leaned on the railing , and peered down through the littered lattice of cross-angled trees , their backs broken in their last attempt to scramble up the cliff . |
| 16 | Down through the drifting cloud he could sometimes see the hazy plan-view of a German airfield . |
| 17 | Sceptics will no doubt dismiss Tito 's order ( even though it was issued down through the full chain of command ) and the assurances given pursuant to it by the Yugoslav negotiators at Bleiburg as mere window-dressing , and they may be right . |
| 18 | The water was thick and brown and went down through the top end of Spaladale at a fearful rate . |
| 19 | It 's a short , sharp , you can see it there , you get to the top of it , get up to your roundabout , we hang a right , and the next , it 's a bit of a drag all the way up , you save coming , coming the other way it 's down hill , from just past The Bull , until you get to the , almost to that junction you turn off the top and you 're going up hill , just slowly , but cor , you get up to that , our junction , she drops down , we went straight down through the High Street , and we hung a right in the one way system , turn left , did n't get , quite get to Green Lane , turn left and up we come round the Green Lane , up and in the back way . |
| 20 | He pulled up and we could look down through the grey cloud-mist to the centre of the village where an old stone bridge and several houses were crumbling into the river . |
| 21 | Besides that , it leads down through the main generator rooms below . |
| 22 | there is a continuing struggle between accurate reflections on the distant surface of the river and increasingly rich golden browns as the eye sees down through the clear water in the foreground . |
| 23 | Her voice shivered down through the magic air around them ; her fingernails were a cap of spikes upon his head . |
| 24 | A bell tolled , the sign for Compline , and Lady Amelia led him down through the darkened cloister out across the grass to the church . |
| 25 | And cutting down through the rising rock , the Indus carries away from the Himalayan region five million tonnes of earthen debris every day . |
| 26 | Just lob one down through the open top of the cab , will you ? ’ |
| 27 | That these movements were still essentially Atlantic in their orientation , is shown by the great accumulations of syn-orogenic and post-orogenic sediments down through the Appalachian belt of the United States . |