Example sentences of "and down into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The route leads to St Etienne , a distance of 195 kilometres , over the wooded slopes of the Vercors National Park and down into the valley of the Rhône , the majestic river that flows between the foothills of the Alps and the Massif Central . |
| 2 | He made his way from the hilltop and down into the valley , this was an ideal opportunity to search his mother 's house . |
| 3 | It fell over the edge of the road and down into the valley . |
| 4 | ‘ Farquhar ! ’ he gasped , and was borne off his feet and down into the water by the force of the attack . |
| 5 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 6 | But , before she could shoot , Rupert jumped over the side of the bridge , and down into the moat below . |
| 7 | and down into the top of the leg . |
| 8 | Jezrael swung herself breathless over a bar of rock and down into the wind-shadow of a huge erratic that faced the sharp-cut sunrise . |
| 9 | The Black Boy though now a public house was at one time also a farm for when Robert Hearnden ran the public house in 1840 he also farmed a considerable amount of land , where the large pit is now situated and down into the village . |
| 10 | Ruth heard no more , going swiftly through the house and down into the basement . |
| 11 | I stepped over the coaming and down into the cockpit where I cannoned off the binnacle before snatching open the companionway hatch . |
| 12 | I leap off my spot and down into the cabin where it sits in a predominant place . |
| 13 | Jasper looked out of the window and down into the candlelight . |
| 14 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 15 | Following him out of the office and down into the street , sitting beside him in the cab which took them to Covent Garden , sitting opposite him in the warm restaurant full of good smells , candlelight , fresh flowers , her predominant feeling was one of surprise . |
| 16 | We prop the grating open with another branch and spend the next half-hour pulling fallen branches and logs from all over that part of the hill , dragging them into the clump of bushes and throwing them into the shaft ; we snap dead branches off trees and bushes and haul and peel living ones off ; we scrape together armfuls of dry leaf litter and throw those over the edge of the chimney , too ; everything goes under the grating and down into the shaft . |
| 17 | The Fort was a warren of underground tunnels and batteries and in every way a security nightmare , and the Prince 's staff and members of BitC ( also involved in the outing ) , who had done the recce , realized they had to get the Prince away from the youth schemes and down into the safety of the seminar very quickly . |
| 18 | Headache as if bruised all through the bones of the head and down into the root of the tongue with nausea . |
| 19 | You tape her mouth then you walk her down to the kitchen and down into the cellar . |
| 20 | My father rushed to the window , looked out and down into the garden , then shouted and ran out of the room , leaving Mrs Clamp goggle-eyed , alone . |