Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] deep " in BNC.

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1 The river is impressive , tumbling down through a deep gorge , from which it has cut weird and wonderfully shaped holes in the smooth rock .
2 On his left — but for the bungaloid eruption — ; there would have been sand dunes going down to the deep blue sea of the Channel ; the stretch of golden sand — had it not been for the litter — making a gentle curve for five miles .
3 he just do n't like going down to the deep end
4 His streaming eyes saw the impossibly inverted mountain rearing out of the deep forested valley like a trumpet in a tub of moss .
5 Now she thought ‘ Mother ’ deliberately , summoning up from a deep centre the bossy voice which had haunted her and with it a sweet softness , older still and loving .
6 Deborah turned away from the signpost and began wading back through the deep undergrowth to the main path , intending to break into a run when she reached it ; but just as she turned off she heard a faint , distant , reedy cry , which stopped her in her tracks .
7 We passed like wraiths gripping our anoraks against a colder night wind coming down from the deep indigo silhouetted mountains .
8 Keeping things simple is often the best bet , an investment of both time and effort is required to learn anything new , so diving in at the deep end with one of the full-blown integrated packages may cause more disruption than it 's worth .
9 So these dare devils have got 6 months to dry out before diving in at the deep end once again .
10 Under harder acceleration it intrudes , finishing up as a deep , rough-edged sounding beat at full throttle .
11 He quietened down then , shaking his head like a man coming out of a deep sleep .
12 Robert O'Mahoney 's King , a ‘ dynamotologist ’ — ‘ self-realisation , you know ? ’ — is the picture of a man floundering around in the deep end of life , who has forgotten not only how to swim , but even where he left his life jacket .
13 The engine of the big mechanical monster was ticking over with the deep throb of impatient , reined-in horsepower .
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