Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] into the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 2 | Setting men to guard both , Douglas and Ramsay moved on into the outer bailey , hardly able to believe their good fortune thus far . |
| 3 | Then she padded back into the bathroom , wriggled out of her nightie , and sank down into the hot water . |
| 4 | Harvey sank down into the parched grass . |
| 5 | She sank down into the smooth embrace of the sheets , at peace . |
| 6 | We abandoned the last Munro , especially as it 's a top that can be combined with Meall Greigh to be bagged another day , and staggered down into the long glen that would take us back to our morning starting point . |
| 7 | Cold sweat ran from his face ; he had scratched at the wound which Tig had inflicted previously , and blood and yellow fluid seeped down into the feathered ruff . |
| 8 | Some 70 pharmaceutical grade trace elements and the basic compound are melted together to ensure a complete mix before being solidified and ground down into the basic salt . |
| 9 | Forester checked the drawers and cupboards before he moved through into the main room . |
| 10 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 11 | Mr. F.J. Norris , the Head of Modern Languages , had first come to the School , on teaching practice , in 1933 , and returned in January 1934 as Form Master of Junior A. He soon moved up into the Senior School . |
| 12 | Faye understood now too , and she sank back into the reclining lounge chair with a gesture of despair . |
| 13 | From the hall outside the court , Doyle peered back into the drab room , wondering whether the girl would re-appear , and give him a chance to make his opening . |
| 14 | ‘ Hello … what in … ? ’ but the words died on his lips as he drew out into the full brilliance of the moon something that shone with the colour of the moon itself , a circlet of gold on which stood a row of triangular shapes from each of which flashed a pebble , some green , some blue , some red the colour of rubies . |
| 15 | Even when lightning lit the skies and the floodgates opened when she was still twenty miles from her destination she merely flicked on the car 's wipers and peered out into the black night , letting the piercing beam of the headlights guide her along the road . |
| 16 | She peered out into the moonlit garden and felt a wave of desperation sweep over her . |
| 17 | She moved to the compartment door , peered out into the deserted corridor , then closed and locked it . |
| 18 | She wandered out into the darkening grounds , across the lawn towards the trees . |
| 19 | As I heard the staff car approach I wandered out into the pale brown of the front garden . |
| 20 | They moved out into the social room . |
| 21 | The sound of the engine starting up was a welcome intrusion , the smooth glide of the craft as it moved out into the main stream a gratifying feeling . |
| 22 | We wandered back into the freezing bailey . |
| 23 | She wandered back into the small sitting-room with her mug of tea , put it down on the polished surface of a table but removed it hastily in case it left a tell-tale ring which S. Kettering might complain about in the future . |
| 24 | Some of the men undressed to their loincloths and waded out into the cold water while others pushed the trees from the bank . |
| 25 | Liz flopped down into the battered armchair opposite Linda , and glanced around the untidy playroom . |
| 26 | For a period of the late 16th century it appears to have come into the possession of the Earls of Leicester but eventually came back into the full possession of Trinity College , which remained lord of the manor until quite recent times . |
| 27 | Ace dropped back into the empty chamber . |
| 28 | But when he strolled out into the front drive , Mr McWhirter was being decanted from a neighbour 's car at the front gate . |
| 29 | They may have been killed by the giants ; they may have starved to death ; all the men of the Armada remembered were the pitiful wails of the pair echoing over the still waters as the ships sailed back into the open sea , and south . |
| 30 | Wind whipped at Duvall 's hair and the lapels of his greatcoat as he squinted out into the rain-slashed darkness , trying to see what in hell had happened . |