Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb past] into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her teeth sank into the hand at her mouth and the man yelped , staggering away . |
| 2 | It was spring and the hoopoes were dipping and diving , circling each other , so that the black and white of their zebra-underwings melted into the scarlet of their crests . |
| 3 | The cat shuddered as her bows bit into the swell . |
| 4 | Her shoes oozed into the ground and , as the breeze sliced through her light coat , she shivered . |
| 5 | In 1816 the old church at Owthorne finally succumbed to the coastal erosion and its remnants disappeared into the sea . |
| 6 | She and her friends scampered into the undergrowth where there were plenty of grubs for all . |
| 7 | I expect his notes went into the university archives , and the rest of his belongings would have been sold off . |
| 8 | He landed on his feet , hitting the narrow pavement outside the yard with such jarring impact that his teeth bit into the edge of his tongue . |
| 9 | He scanned the newsprint greedily while his teeth sank into the bacon sandwich , the melted margarine dribbling over his fingers . |
| 10 | His words fell into the silence like stones . |
| 11 | He opened the rear door and folded Goldman on to the seat ; his legs trailed into the road and Elliott tucked them up on the seat . |
| 12 | One of his brothers went into the Navy and became very successful and very high up in maritime administration , another went into the Army , and became a General . |
| 13 | His eyes stared into the room . |
| 14 | Scott clenched his fists until his nails dug into the palms of his hands . |
| 15 | One of his technicians burst into the rest room where the television was . |
| 16 | In fact it worked out well for Fouroux , since most of his players ran into the sort of form which , if reproduced tonight , will make the Home Union 's players wish they were just that — at home . |
| 17 | Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory . |
| 18 | His hands rose into the air and clenched , as though he was wrestling a bullock by its horns . |
| 19 | His ribs thudded into the rock at the top of the previous pitch and he dangled , shocked and winded , over the scene of his epic struggle . |
| 20 | Some of his papers fell into the hands of Seth Ward , Sir Justinian Isham , John Collins , and Herbert Thorndike [ qq.v. ] , but in 1646 Pell lamented that most of his papers had been ‘ unmathematically divided between sequestrators and creditors ’ . |
| 21 | At seven o'clock in the evening , a time Clarke judged opportune , he and his fellow-officers burst into the brothers ' bedroom . |