Example sentences of "[adv prt] into the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before returning , a look down into the tremendous ravine of Ling Gill below the bridge will reveal a most impressive scene , the beck hurrying along a bouldery bed fringed by trees and cliffs on its way to join the Ribble ; several minor caves have been found and explored along its banks but the rough terrain is a deterrent to walkers who prefer to travel sedately . |
| 2 | Sky , clouds , then down into the closed world of water sound distortion . |
| 3 | It climbs steeply through trees , into quiet hillside streets from which little lanes and stairways drop suddenly down into the blue distances of the city . |
| 4 | Liz flopped down into the battered armchair opposite Linda , and glanced around the untidy playroom . |
| 5 | She made it down into the long drawing-room with a sort of grim look on her face that Alain noted with a frown . |
| 6 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 7 | That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen . |
| 8 | He went down into the foetid holds of the ‘ sick ships ’ of the second fleet where hundreds lay dying or ill . |
| 9 | From his own vantage point he moved forward , leaning on the parapet of Blackfriars Bridge , peering down into the murky blackness of the river . |
| 10 | Brownie Owl was tall enough , by standing on tip toe , to look over and down into the hollow trunk of the decayed tree . |
| 11 | For those of us staring down into the yawning chasm of the generation gap it really is n't so bad , you know . |
| 12 | At first he will be greatly praised by his people , before sinking down into the dark pit of sin and pride . |
| 13 | Its crassness repelled her but it slid inside her because she recognized it as her name and suddenly there was a dark pit , a chasm , a void , and the gravity of being dragged her down into the dark heart of weight . |
| 14 | From the top you can go down into the old crater via a scree slope which , viewed from the other side , looks impossibly steep ( ’ I 'm never going down there ! ’ ) but is actually quite easy ( the descent is 600ft . ) . |
| 15 | Philip ap Ivor stood staring down into the blank cavity for a long moment with drawn brows and tight lips . |
| 16 | I kept telling myself that I had killed her — had killed her as surely as if my own hands had sent her plunging down into the muddy waters of the Thames . |
| 17 | She sank down into the smooth embrace of the sheets , at peace . |
| 18 | A tallish hummock loomed , and he pulled her down into the wet grass behind it . |
| 19 | He tucked the ticket down into the top pocket of his official tunic . |
| 20 | In their small hamlets drink was associated with Cossack brutality , when horsemen would swoop down into the Jewish shtetels after Easter and terrorize the people . |
| 21 | Rain looked down into the steep cleft of another valley . |
| 22 | Beyond this palace , turn to your right down into the Italian quarter by following the stairs of St John 's Hill ( Jánský vršek ) to the bottom . |
| 23 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 24 | It was virtually a hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and very sharp , the culvert blocked with stone and the remains of a small tree , so that the full volume of the water coming down the gully was swirling across the track to disappear over the edge , thundering down into the main gorge of the Jequetepeque . |
| 25 | Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running . |
| 26 | Now if there should be a hole , or a thin place , inviting him through into the plenteous cover of the orchard , and the solitary shed in its far corner … |
| 27 | Joe demanded , remembering the last time that she 'd dumped him into trouble in a Chinese restaurant , but the chef said something angry and then ignored him and so Joe pushed on past and shouldered his way through into the main part of the premises . |
| 28 | In wholly man-made processes , the ‘ arts ’ run through into the significant areas of dress , ornament , furnishing , decoration , gardening , where many of the same criteria of beauty , harmony and proportion apply yet where the full definition as ‘ art ’ is usually withheld , within the modern specialization . |
| 29 | With a couple of tins in her arms she rolled through into the whirling darkness of the antarctic night and pegged the billowing plastic down with a handful of icy stones . |
| 30 | But besides this more obvious point , there are subtler connections between voice and body : Cicely Berry observes that ‘ an introverted and thoughtful person often finds more difficulty in speaking and does not carry the thought through into the physical process of making speech ’ . |