Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] into the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 His lips foraged deep into the cute valley between her moons , as she spread her legs to enjoy his long tongue exploring her lush carpet of soft fern .
2 We have held the hands of our gallant fighters and prayed with them and for them as their life 's blood seeped slowly into the dark damp earth of the jungle .
3 The skins on the door were pulled violently open and the face of First-hog-of-summer peered anxiously into the firelit gloom .
4 The waves smashed spectacularly into the rocky coastline , creating instant waterfalls of white spume draining from the rocks before becoming drowned and engulfed by further successive waves .
5 The indicator winked and the car pulled smartly into the slow-moving line of traffic heading uphill .
6 Corbett looked again into the clear water .
7 It was not until the 1870s that in British science grams and centimetres replaced ounces , troy or avoirdupois , and cubic inches ; while in engineering the old units lasted well into the twentieth century .
8 Hugh drove neatly into the straw-covered shelter as though he were coming to rest in a multi-storey car park ; then he switched off the engine and opened his door .
9 Nicholson looked squarely into the chubby man 's eyes , scarcely able to disguise the contempt he felt for such a soft , weak handshake .
10 He stepped aside and the auburn-haired girl strode forward into the empty road carrying the roses loosely in her arm .
11 The crew , moving rapidly yet almost soundlessly , carried out the few jobs required to convert the land vehicle to a boat , and within seconds the rigs slid rapidly into the dark water and powered away to swing out their ramps and couple together in twos and threes .
12 Insurance giant Guardian Royal Exchange slid further into the red last year to the tune of £210m .
13 Taking advantage of the clerk 's uncertainty , Ramlal pushed forward into the high-ceilinged room .
14 A ten foot wide brown slick oozed continually into the blue grey waters , in which no fish can survive , and no person would dare to swim .
15 Hazel peered closely into the thick , coarse hair ( a rabbit 's foot has no pads ) and after a few moments saw what he had expected — the oval shank Of a snapped-off thorn sticking out through the skin .
16 Her new corset dug savagely into the soft parts at the sides of her waist and seemed to crush her ribcage in an inexorable grip .
17 Finally , the closure raft inched carefully into the remaining gap , and after the briefest hesitation the ramps dropped into their receiving lugs and were pinned .
18 The Falangists fell mostly into the first category , while Great Britain was the model society for those for whom monarchy was the ultimate political goal .
19 Alain said unexpectedly into the heavy silence .
20 When his few days at Culbone were over , Coleridge descended again into the prosaic lowland world , and by 14 October was home at Lime Street , gloomy and impoverished .
21 The impression of division given by Benn 's lengthy and vocal campaign , however , did immense damage to the party and the shambling , duffel-coated figure of Michael Foot walked straight into the delighted arms of the Tory press , which instantly fell on him and started taking him apart .
22 He squared the ball into the centre where Kenny completely mis-kicked and he was relieved when the ball wobbled slowly into the empty net to put United two goals up .
23 Hopefully if the money is there to enable the works to be built , then we 'll see Venice safeguarded well into the next century .
24 So these people moved away into the Pennine valleys .
25 Blue smoke wreathed upwards into the dark sky .
26 The little dark patch sank deeper into the surrounding darkness .
27 The old agrarian basis of the economy survived well into the Georgian era but the enormous growth of population made a new form of local society unavoidable and the Enclosure Award of 1766 put the final seal of approval on changes that had long been underway .
28 Miss Honey stared hard into the other woman 's wet grey eyes , and she allowed the silence to hang in the air until Mrs Wormwood became uncomfortable .
29 The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position .
30 And hours after being elected on a mandate of change , Clinton plunged straight into the hard work of weaving the magic he has been promising his people .
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