Example sentences of "[v-ing] into [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if they lay brooding , unable to feed or go underground , all their troubles would come crowding into their hearts , their fears would mount and they might very likely scatter , or even try to return to the warren . |
| 2 | She felt giddy as the full answer came , crowding into her mind . |
| 3 | Memories real as the rough bark pressing against the back of her hands came crowding into her mind . |
| 4 | His look of rage vanished and he held out his arms to her , laughing into her face . |
| 5 | I hide my face , laughing into my hands . |
| 6 | People are more wary about what is happening into our planet and how we should go about things , and how we should be perceived to be going about things . |
| 7 | So IBM is publicly sticking to OS/2 , though it is also quietly hedging its bets by incorporating into its grand scheme other products with many of the same capabilities . |
| 8 | HCRC is one of several departments in the University interested in ‘ neural networks ’ , a style of computational architecture which is inspired by psychology and neuroscience but which engineers are now incorporating into their artefacts . |
| 9 | Gaston , however , disposed of the latest invaders and then commemorated his double success over the heathens by incorporating into his portal the figures of two Saracens in chains and oriental costume , to be seen still hunched submissively at the foot of the central pillar of the doorway as if having to bear all its weight . |
| 10 | ‘ I was mad , ’ she said , and came shuddering into his arms . |
| 11 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 12 | In the U.S.A. you may be asked for a credit card imprint as security when checking into your hotel if you intend to charge meals , drinks , etc. to your rooms . |
| 13 | Ratagan asked her quietly , slicing into his cheese . |
| 14 | It snatched at Cardiff and he tried to twist away from it , pain like fire stabbing into his chest where the thing had him gripped with the other claw . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose when you spend all that money on a girl you do n't want to spend the evening wheezing into your hankie , do you ? |
| 16 | There were sunstars , spotty pipefish , peacock worms shrinking into their tubes , orangy-yellow deadmans fingers and brittlestars . |
| 17 | Shrinking into my seat I murmured , ‘ It has to be God . ’ |
| 18 | He shuffled a bit at that , shrinking into his green trenchcoat which someone had told him was yuppily fashionable . |
| 19 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 20 | ‘ It seems strong enough , ’ he said , pressing into her hands a great hook of rusted iron . |
| 21 | She tried to control an urge to pull at the ropes of jewels , coils of bracelets , the heavy tiara pressing into her scalp . |
| 22 | Nona felt the wall pressing into her back . |
| 23 | He held the dress against her , his heavy arm pressing into her body to nip in the waist realistically . |
| 24 | His thumb and forefinger pinched the sides of my neck , one big pad pressing into my carotid artery . |
| 25 | ‘ But I 've got to go now , ’ the boy said , feeling the trunk pressing into his back again . |
| 26 | He felt the links pressing into his palm . |
| 27 | He felt the warmth of Barbara 's arm against his cheek , and her breast pressing into his body . |
| 28 | erm the general public walking into their |
| 29 | She was used to her old mistress 's pallor , to the skeleton thinness , to the heavy , bruised-looking eyes but walking into her bedroom on the beautiful summer 's morning and looking towards the bed she was stopped in her progress and forced to control the exclamation of horror that rose to her lips . |
| 30 | The trouble was , Alexandra thought , walking into her kitchen wrapped in a bath sheet , the trouble was that you could n't really go with the flow until you 'd had time to work out which way it was going . |