Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] deep [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few weeks in mid-winter , the steel-blue waters of the Zanskar river freeze into a seventy mile ice passageway winding through a deep canyon in the remote mountains of the northern Himalaya . |
| 2 | Then there are the Flume Rides ; long , twisty fibreglass tunnels , down which one slid at high speed , ending in a deep pool at the bottom . |
| 3 | Efforts with red grapes can , however , be described only as experimental , with the wines produced tending towards a deep rosé rather than a true red colour . |
| 4 | Further , they certainly did not succeed in swimming against the deep tide of recession which engulfed Nigeria from 1983 onwards . |
| 5 | The American sat there , mouthed a few more obscenities before sinking into a deep sulk as he nursed his hurt pride . |
| 6 | It 's not just water sinking into the deep ocean that carries information about conditions on the surface . |
| 7 | She crossed to one of the racks which lined the watered silk walls , her feet sinking into the deep cream carpet , and took out a black gown , holding it against her . |
| 8 | We had almost half an hour of this , then brown , wet walls of rock closed us in , the sound of the engine grinding upwards reverberating in a deep cut , the foglights accentuating the macabre theatricality of our struggle up the path through which Pizarro and his four hundred armoured hidalgoes had climbed to destroy the Inca Empire half a millennium ago . |
| 9 | Finally , the client is told to stretch all of his muscles , as though waking from a deep sleep , to gradually open their eyes , and get up slowly . |
| 10 | Taczek leant back , slung his arms behind his head and stretched his chunky arms as if waking from a deep sleep . |
| 11 | By 1845 Thomas was clearly more versatile , putting far more time in at the mine , performing better paid tasks such as kibble filling , and waggoning from the Deep Level to the dressing floors . |
| 12 | From its floor rose several lava pillars ; eroded , contorted shapes brooding in the deep pit . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't see fit to compound this tragedy by adding to the deep distress that the incident must already have caused to you , the deceased 's relatives and others , ’ he said . |
| 14 | However , in 1969 , a large-scale American project , JOIDES ( Joint Oceanographic Institutions Deep Earth Sampling ) was able to confirm it , in the course of a programme of drilling into the deep ocean floors to sample the rocks and sediments there . |
| 15 | He was sitting with Mick at the top of a hill and he was wishing with a deep desire that he could remain in time , this present time , forever . |
| 16 | He looked at Caroline like a man rising from a deep sleep , and then his face hardened . |
| 17 | To drive from Lascaux of the prehistoric caves in the Dordogne right across country to Valence on the Rhone is possibly not the most expeditious way of getting from the deep south-west of France to the Mediterranean . |
| 18 | He dropped the envelope back on to his desk , drawing in a deep breath . |
| 19 | He stared at her while drawing in a deep breath , which expanded his broad chest further ; then he said , ‘ Well , if you want to know , you should n't look as you do ; you attract the wrong kind . |
| 20 | Drawing in a deep breath , Isabel pushed open the door . |
| 21 | He wanted to be able to give me fifty pounds , and he was suffering from a deep sense of inadequacy because he could n't have given me five . |
| 22 | While we ca n't say that we are in complete agreement with Barry Graham 's ‘ with one bound , IBM was free ’ analysis of the company 's manifold problems and its prospects , written up in today 's page two , there is no doubt that IBM Corp is suffering from a deep crisis of confidence , and his messianic defence of the mainframe makes it quite clear that the man who should be running IBM in succession to John Akers is — Barry Graham . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Standing on their hind legs with front paws resting on the deep window sills , they saw Mark getting out of his car and went berserk . |
| 25 | The soldiers go singing down the deep lane |
| 26 | The laugh curled around her , beginning as a soft chuckle , evolving through a deep guffaw , and ending as a childlike giggle , once more behind her . |
| 27 | He was like a young and virile counterpart of Holger Danske , one of Denmark 's greatest mythical heroes , whom tradition decreed repelled all invaders in the early Viking age before falling into a deep sleep . |
| 28 | In that state they became ‘ sylvan demons ’ , ‘ either falling into a deep slumber or looking around for a fight . ’ |
| 29 | As he sat he felt he was falling into a deep slumber . |
| 30 | Thomas , sitting in a deep armchair in front of an open fire , was browsing through the newspaper and he took off his reading glasses to look her over . |