Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] down into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some geezer got down into the tunnels and found his way out . ’ |
| 2 | Harvey sank down into the parched grass . |
| 3 | It has a flight of steps leading down into the depths , and its main feature is a high waterfall that emerges from behind a wedged boulder known as Mohammed 's Coffin . |
| 4 | Stok walked down into the darkness . |
| 5 | Ensure that no masonry falls down into the cavity , where it could interfere with the wall ties . |
| 6 | The foot of the inclined way descends below the level of what may be termed the tail bay which is open at the end so that the dock and carriage run down into the water in order to bring the dock into alignment with the tail bay to allow of the vessel being hauled in or out of the dock . |
| 7 | Corbett stared down into the water . |
| 8 | Our home 's eight coconut support-trunks were planted upside down so that they continue , even in death , to draw moisture from the roof thatch down into the ground , where it belongs . |
| 9 | The beetles burrow under the dead animals , removing the earth from below so that the animals sink down into the soil , where they are rolled into balls for the reception of the beetles ' eggs and developing larvae . |
| 10 | Trent dropped down into the galley and took his time searching out a tin of ginger biscuits . |
| 11 | Slowly , very slowly , the malice sank down into the tissue of the face . |
| 12 | Through the middle kitchen window he could just make out the open gate , the wooden ramp covering the steps and the first huge saddle-back sow ambling down into the yard . |
| 13 | The old grandma who was holding the girl 's hand looked across at him as he walked to the window to stare down into the street to watch for Eddie . |
| 14 | Alan climbed down into the vat and began handing the parts to him . |
| 15 | The texture of the novel is in part created by the juxtaposition of dead metaphors and new ones created by slight adjustments to the normal patterns of the language : " … the sun looked down into the top of the dead tree and breathed warmly on the two people " ( p. 142 ) . |
| 16 | The ponies walked slowly because their feet went down into the snow . |
| 17 | The lower portions of the inclined planes descend below the level of the water in the tail bays , and as the tanks on the downward run move down into the water until there is parity of level between the water in the tank and that in the bay , dock gates are unnecessary in these lower channels . |
| 18 | Louise cried out as she felt her body tumbling down into the blackness . |
| 19 | Grant looks down into the dark waters . |
| 20 | He lay there , aware of the weight of his body pressing down into the softness of the bed , of the rise and fall of his chest with each breath , the flow of his blood . |
| 21 | The two men made their way silently along the roof , until they were seated on either side of the skylight looking down into the deserted corridor below . |
| 22 | ‘ But for some reason , on this occasion , one firework came down into the crowd . |
| 23 | He had seen the floor open up underneath him , and he had watched the body drop down into the black hole below . |
| 24 | She was glued to the chair , fascinated by that sharp profile staring down into the street below . |
| 25 | At the top the beetles have discovered the dead mouse ; they bury it by tunnelling beneath it and removing the earth from below so that it drops down into the excavation ; at the bottom as the mouse sinks down into the earth the beetles roll it into a ball ready for the reception of their eggs . |
| 26 | On the basis of the much more complete seismic data available by the late 196()s it was being suggested that the inclined zone of seismicity ( the Wadati-Benioff zone ) associated with island arcs and active continental margin mountain belts could be explained by the existence of a slab of lithosphere plunging down into the mantle . |
| 27 | Rain looked down into the steep cleft of another valley . |
| 28 | The hero Theseus went down into the underworld to support his friend Pirithous in an attempt to carry off Proserpine , Queen of Hades . |
| 29 | Furious , Wilson went down into the freezing kitchen , where the well banked-up fire had not quite died down , and poked it vigorously until it began to burn up . |
| 30 | Duncan peeped down into the water of the loch and , just then , the wind blew strong and fast making the water splash and ripple and the green weeds slithered about under the surface . |