Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the deep " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were walking over the deep sun-baked mud-tracks of the lane and you had to watch where you put your feet if you did n't want to twist your ankle . |
| 2 | Squig Hunters were dispatched into the deep tunnels to fetch more Cave Squigs , while Netters were sent off to hunt down Stone Trolls amongst the mountains . |
| 3 | It was an amazing discovery to find that monoplacophorans were still alive and well — living ones were dredged from the deep ocean in the early 1950's . |
| 4 | The only possible way was to the north-east and east along Glen Spean where a level contour could be maintained for nearly twenty miles until , at Tulloch , the first opportunity of circumventing the mountain barrier was presented by the deep trench of Loch Treig to the south and reached by a steep gradient . |
| 5 | Thankfully our landing was cushioned by the deep new snow and we came to a rest 100 metres lower , badly bruised and half strangled by the rope , but somehow down the couloir in one piece . |
| 6 | A few days later , when doing some research on the Mournes , I read an account of a legend that described how a princess was drowned in the deep waters of the lough and now haunts the area in the shape of a fox ! |
| 7 | The lurching nausea his earlier stories taunted you into was replaced with the deep , sick shock of grief : the loss of a child . |
| 8 | But perhaps quite not so funny was why Stewart was fielding on the deep square-leg boundary in the first place during England 's three-wicket defeat . |
| 9 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |
| 10 | But seconds later he was crouched in the deep shadow under the wall . |