1.   I have to break the ice with a long pole before I can lower a bucket into water.

2.   I used the long maple pole to again pound my way through the ice before lowering the bucket down with the rope.

3.   She lowered her bucket into the well.

4.   Caked with bees, Leyva said he was unable to reach the controls to lower the bucket.

5.   His shoulder touched the line, a company spokesman later said, and by the time the others lowered the bucket he was beyond help.

6.   Thirsty printers, forbidden by their bosses from leaving to get a quaff, would lower buckets by rope to be filled with beer.

7.   Wheezing workers lowered their buckets and turned.