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

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1 For a period of the late 16th century it appears to have come into the possession of the Earls of Leicester but eventually came back into the full possession of Trinity College , which remained lord of the manor until quite recent times .
2 Mr. F.J. Norris , the Head of Modern Languages , had first come to the School , on teaching practice , in 1933 , and returned in January 1934 as Form Master of Junior A. He soon moved up into the Senior School .
3 Agnes got hers with the pale coffee already slopped over into the two sugar lumps and two hard little biscuits in the saucer .
4 We found in earlier descents that if power was left on the aircraft quickly accelerated well into the yellow arc and could quite easily reach its Vne .
5 It also reached out into the social and anthropological fields , and indeed a special journal linking it with linguistics was founded as early as 1859 .
6 Chapels on this pattern were barely distinguishable from parish churches of the same period and they both fitted perfectly into the leafy suburbs for which they were intended .
7 He now smiled down into the wet , tear-stained face , saying , ‘ You 're going to be all right .
8 Luke said quietly , then turned abruptly into the inner hall which memory told her led to his bedroom .
9 Other analyses were also undertaken ; for example , similar posts throughout the organization were grouped together and then slotted appropriately into the overall order .
10 It stopped for a moment , then went quietly into the long grass and disappeared for ever .
11 Taking the lanthorn from the shelf , she lit the tallow candle-stub from the fire 's dying embers , then went out into the hard brilliance of the moonlight .
12 Then went back into the outer cellar .
13 When he returned , carrying two mugs , she took hers automatically then stared down into the swirling liquid .
14 She flipped the hood up over her head , fussed with it , then pushed through into the unknown .
15 Who smiled briefly in return , as she again looked carefully into the reassuring hall .
16 He subsequently came briefly into the national spotlight when , fighting Bexley for Labour in the 1966 General Election , he gained only 2,333 votes fewer than Conservative leader Edward Heath in a 54,826 poll .
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