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

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1 Lefevre peered behind into the darkness .
2 Ian moved cautiously into the shadow of the Cathedral and pushed open the small door .
3 Hugh Kenner veers unexpectedly into the idiom of the British schoolboy : ‘ Blast should have been a great lark ’ .
4 I was knocked to the ground , and a kind passer-by picked me up and dusted down my soaking clothes as 1 watched Dana walking away into the night .
5 It is a switchback journey with many ups and downs and one particularly steep descent almost to sea level where Loch Nedd bites deeply into the coastline .
6 Trying to avoid the undulants ' over-affectionate advances , Bernice moved deeper into the jungle .
7 While Uncle Ted sat outside in the car Jean charged straight into the bedroom , pushing me aside as I tried to protect my parents ' privacy .
8 Lucy sank back into the darkness at the rear of the cab , and waited .
9 So we were back before the firebox , exhausted and happy , and Laura had just shut down the kiln , when Edward came round into the yard again .
10 Travis squinted out into the sunshine .
11 After she 'd completed her delivery round of the dressing rooms , Lucy came back into the department , took off her coat and threw it in the corner , and then threw herself onto one of the available chairs with an equal lack of ceremony .
12 Meredith raced out into the kitchen .
13 The doors sighed open and Zambia Crevecoeur ducked warily into the building .
14 Meredith walked out into the hall and waited .
15 Faustina walked slowly into the room and Daisy Pettigrew stooped to pick her up .
16 Donna glanced across into the gallery on the ground floor then at another doorway ahead of them marked PRIVATE .
17 Mrs Wright reversed out into the road again and drove off past the church .
18 Without waiting for or expecting a reply , Martha and the reluctant Tilda walked through into the back office .
19 Stok walked down into the darkness .
20 Bernice rushed off into the smoke .
21 Lucy looked straight into the camera with a look she had taken — and still , against the odds — with a look Jay thought of as love .
22 Corbett stared down into the water .
23 Meredith stared blindly into the darkness , wishing the nerve-jangling journey would end .
24 Camus sets off into the night .
25 Becky continued on into the bedroom .
26 Bernice ran forward into the darkness , her torch beam bobbing in front of her .
27 Corbett continued on into the village , Maltote and Ranulf behind him , chatting about the lies of the horse-copers at Smithfield Market and how best to detect their tricks .
28 Meredith dived back into the freezer and rooted about .
29 Donna hurried through into the kitchen and sat down at the wooden table , pulling the envelopes from her handbag .
30 Fitzosbert came back into the room and Cranston laid some silver on the table .
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