Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] into the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Pickets charged straight into the police riot shields .
2 THERE was more bad news for Fergie yesterday when the firm filming her Budgie The Helicopter books crashed deeper into the red .
3 The church was so vast and empty that the vicar 's words rolled away into the gloom .
4 It was this lack of division that most effectively concealed from Clara the basic , classic structure of the building , for she had been brought up with the notion that walls must be above eye-level , lace curtains impenetrable , bedrooms facing discreetly into the void .
5 Further east these limestones pass upwards into the Rossmore Mudstone .
6 With an almighty tug-of-war heave , with my back almost horizontal and shoulders pressed hard into the cross-bar , I crossed the first patch of sand .
7 Big brown eyes stare bleakly into the distance , the thousand-yard stare of so many kids in this war .
8 Iago watched that fight to its end , and saw the survivors haled away into the forest and silence .
9 Mediterranean influences penetrate northwards into the Vardar valley and the lowlands of Pelagonija .
10 Some of them , like Sir Robert Birley , the headmaster of Eton and a member of the Fleming Committee , disliked the social selectiveness of the schools and the dependence of admission upon the ability to pay fees , and hoped to see the schools brought fully into the mainstream of national life .
11 The words fell harshly into the silence and Emily looked at her cousin in disbelief .
12 She opened her mouth to call to her father , but the words blew away into the night .
13 He looked down on the pretty garden and saw the two of them snoring there , their front claws tucked neatly under their chins which rested on silk cushions and their tails dipped tidily into the pond whose waters did not stir enough to move their dreams to wildness .
14 Cardiff turned away from the rain-streaked window as the policemen on cordon-duty lifted the wooden pole and the last of the cars slid away into the night .
15 IPS is a system which sees integrated weights engineered directly into the frame at the 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock positions .
16 These results show that human DNAs integrate only into the type II foci of CC-M2T .
17 Consider the sentences in ( 10 ) with their sequences of verbs followed by adverbs or adverb phrases : ( 10 ) Farjeon clumsily undressed the refugees gazed hungrily into the window the ship was drifting almost imperceptibly to leeward In the last of these three cases nobody would understand the ship itself to be " almost imperceptible " ; in the second sentence , on the other hand , it is the refugees who are hungry ; gazes , whatever they may imply to a sensitive observer , do not experience hunger .
18 Moreover , these texts fit well into the English and European context described above .
19 For a long time I walked with my eyes on the ground , watching my feet sinking interminably into the snow .
20 Spears of light from loopholes stabbed outwards into the night and charmed up in sharp black and white disconnected passages of masonry .
21 Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style .
22 Ideally , gates should be hung on sturdy posts set well into the ground , but where this is impossible , such as against a house wall , the only secure way to fit the post is to screw it to the wall using large expanding bolts , such as Rawlbolts .
23 She was anxious not to make a noise , but even though her feet fell softly into the leaves strewing the path the wood was so still and silent that she really felt as if she were thudding through the wood .
24 A moment later Liz Spalding 's slightly irritated tones spoke quickly into the receiver .
25 I 've always ridden bikes off the road on to trails to get far into the heart of the country , but they were big , creaky , clanking old things that had to have a puncture repaired every 20 minutes .
26 THE 1980s : HEADHUNTERS THRUST DEEPER INTO THE JUNGLE
27 For mile after mile the car ran on through the shadowy rubber groves where the straight-trunked trees with herringbone scars and metal latex cups stretched unendingly into the distance on either side of the road .
28 Where the source zones nest hierarchically into the target zones , for example UK administrative EDs nest exactly in wards , transfer of data from the source units to the target units is one of simple aggregation .
29 These values extend well into the boundaries of improbability .
30 The city fans upwards from the coast , its white towers climbing gracefully into the foothills of the distant mountains .
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