Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] into the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I fall into the occasional thigh-deep drift and expend a great deal of effort in escaping . |
2 | We are on a shore of white sand too hot to stand still for a moment , great breakers surf and trip to swathes of foam as we dart into the solid black and lovely shade . |
3 | It shows , say the authors , what a spanking investment the politicians are making with every cent of public money they put into the three big museums . |
4 | By resisting narcissism they force into the cultural imaginary a way of being a clever , gifted and ambitious professional woman ? |
5 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |