Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] into the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , inch by inch , the three men advanced the half mile across no-man's-land , towards the Allied front line , pressing their faces back down into the mud whenever the moon reappeared from behind its unreliable screen . |
| 2 | Lifting it , she peered down into the blackness below , feeling the first rung of a rickety ladder as she dangled her foot into the yawning gap . |
| 3 | The little larvae soon emerge — they know which way to go ! — and bore down into the stem where they pupate and eventually emerge as adults . |
| 4 | The small village was completely silent as the Marines who had landed at the small fishing jetty moved up into the plateau where the houses were built . |
| 5 | Approaching Keld I dropped down into the dale where Great Sleddale Beck falls over a succession of stairs , hard bands of limestone that have resisted the action of the water to form an impressive series of falls all of which are within a mile or so of Keld village . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've got to stop hating , that 's all , ’ he said , looking down into the pit again . |
| 7 | Nuala crossed to the window and perched on the ledge looking down into the street below . |
| 8 | She came through into the sitting-room where I was nursing a martini . |
| 9 | The first ship date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target . |
| 10 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 11 | So , I pull handfuls of weed and leave it near the water 's edge , giving at least some of the creatures the chance to nip back into the water again . |
| 12 | The landlord came back into the room just then , interrupting his gloomy thoughts . |
| 13 | I came back into the house soon afterwards , but Emily walked for an hour or two in the rain with her dog , Keeper . |
| 14 | A string quintet played in the largest of the reception rooms , and guests spilled out into the garden in between light showers . |
| 15 | Alternatively , and no less awe-inspiring , if the cloud conditions are right , you ascend through the mist until you break out into the sun somewhere before the summit from where you look down on a sea of white cloud with many peaks bursting through . |
| 16 | They came out into the corridor together , Rostov holding back as he allowed the older and more senior man to go before him . |
| 17 | They reached the arcade and then , still surrounded by the bodyguard , ‘ came out into the road again and the party marched round the traffic lights through the dense masses . ’ |
| 18 | It was not until they came out into the clearing where the lame horse was dismally hobbling amongst the forest grasses that he became aware of what had happened . |
| 19 | He came out into the world again . |
| 20 | So we were back before the firebox , exhausted and happy , and Laura had just shut down the kiln , when Edward came round into the yard again . |
| 21 | I said I believed them to be following the correct route and then crept off into the mist surreptitiously to whip out my compass . |
| 22 | Gobbets of soil shook down into the cavity where she hid her face . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's a small window in the second room with a large pipe going down into the moat outside , ’ he went on . |
| 24 | Two of the protesters climbed up into the roof where , from the girders high overhead , they scattered anti-Fascist leaflets upon the audience . |
| 25 | So it 's very easy for bacteria , which are always present around the anus , to reach the usually bacteria-free urethra and travel up into the bladder where they multiply and irritate the bladder lining . |
| 26 | Her face tilts to look up into the sky where there ought to be stars . |
| 27 | Tears stung her eyes , and she turned as from an unbearable sight to vanish back into the garden outside . |
| 28 | The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept . |
| 29 | He fired out into the night again and again . |
| 30 | I do n't drop down into the deck well , overcrowded as it is , but remain on the edge , with arms woven around the chrome railings for safety . |