Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she still remembered how , as the car began to climb into the lake land hills , she had seen her first mountain — a sharp blue crag that , outlined against the sky , had made her sit up and stare . |
| 2 | THE Football Association is to launch an inquiry into the crowd trouble involving Birmingham City supporters at Blackpool on Saturday , when police in riot gear had to move into the terraces to part fighting fans . |
| 3 | Given the fact that soil conservation as a government policy was a colonial phenomenon , it is perhaps not surprising that in post-colonial Africa at least , foreign aid tended to move into the vacuum left by the colonial administration . |
| 4 | In April a restlessness seemed to come into the air as the village began to throw off the lethargy of winter . |
| 5 | Rain began to blow into the patio . |
| 6 | And er but he did one did Melvin , and he he was trotting up the stairs with three men pushing you see , two at the bottom one at the top guiding it , and the top of the piano started to disappear into the staircase . |
| 7 | I mean , my husband has even at one point had to come into the bathroom , when I got my mother stuck in the bath er , could n't get her out , it was , it was him or the fire brigade , tha that was the choice , basically ! |
| 8 | Then the stupid Shirnette had to come into the toilet , failing about laughing . |
| 9 | Rain continued to sweep into the cottage , driven by the strong wind that screamed around the building . |
| 10 | Permanently placed at Number 55 in the not-quite-so-top 100 , they are destined to be remembered as yet another band Virgin failed to encourage into the charts ( famous last words part 136 ) . |
| 11 | The rest managed to walk into the docks through an unguarded gate carrying one of the dinghys . |
| 12 | A Volvo spokesman last night refused to go into the reasons behind the deal . |
| 13 | The sit-in at Beishida ( shortened form of the university 's name ) caused some tension , but eventually the college principal promised to look into the matter . |
| 14 | They had a tiny room on the ground floor lit by a small leaded window and heated by an open fire from which as much smoke seemed to blow into the room as went up the chimney . |
| 15 | The notion of a Single Of The Week started to creep into the NME about 1974 and has now become a staple part of our weekly rock diet . |
| 16 | Part-way through entering the sale on a computer , the sales assistant had to go into the store room to check the identifying number of the machine selected . |
| 17 | First , the complete omission of ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ ( This may seem surprising , given that the text managed to get into the quarto , even if late ; but as a continuo song it could , at a pinch , have been accompanied by the harpsichordist from a separate sheet , with a gamba player reading over his shoulder . |
| 18 | Rainwater began to gush into the basement from around the fractured board . |
| 19 | They blocked the pavement and there was this bloody great lorry up against the path so anybody coming down or up the road had to walk into the road or co , cross the road to the other side ! |
| 20 | This theme runs through every form of advertising , press and publicity material and forms a powerful message intended to lodge into the community 's sub-consciousness . |
| 21 | The Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive promised to look into the hold-ups . |
| 22 | Once that information began to spread into the community the opposition began to crumble . |
| 23 | But by 1979 he was selling enough stock from his Mum 's garden shed to move into the Wanneroo premises . |
| 24 | More deliberate ( as one would expect ) is the oscillation of another ruler disguised to enquire into the behaviour of his subjects , King Henry V. On the eve of Agincourt , dressed as a commoner , the King moves among his soldiers speaking prose . |
| 25 | Just after the fire started , a passer-by tried to break into the building , fearing children were trapped inside . |
| 26 | PostScript could n't be built into the Macintosh , it was too late for that , so the interpreter had to go into the printer , now called the LaserWriter . |
| 27 | Some executives of the company wanted to expand into the travel business , but in 1900 the testy head of American Express , James Congdell Fargo , was still adamantly against it , ‘ I will not have gangs of trippers starting off in charabancs from in front of our offices the way they do from Cooks ’ , he stormed . |
| 28 | He began to beat at his head with his gloved hands as his face began to sink into the floor . |
| 29 | After the second or third year the principle of choice , concentration , and specialization began to bite into the curriculum . |
| 30 | In that hour I heard about life on a London newspaper , the great novel that was one day going to be written , the shock to the Francis family when the General 's eldest son refused to go into the Army . |