Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bulk of it , though , is just standard major record company dross which is greeted with a yawn and propelled directly into the nearest rubbish bin . |
| 2 | It was a prime-ministerial cabinet in all but name and plunged instantly into the economic blizzard which engulfed the new Labour administration and with which , initially , it coped so inadequately . |
| 3 | Even as she observed this , it did just that , slithered off the nail which supported it and plunged headfirst into the deep blue of the mantelpiece . |
| 4 | An expression of pure horror shaped itself on his features as he slithered helplessly down the slope and plunged headlong into the stinking waters of Mucky Beck . |
| 5 | The audience approved though , and fired by their enthusiasm , he loosened the reins and charged cheerfully into the murky world of speed , greed and what the nation reads . |
| 6 | Never quite stationary , the mag-lev decanted her on a windy platform and whined away into the cavernous tunnel . |
| 7 | He began as a rock climber , opening new routes on the Provencal ‘ super-cliff ’ of Ceuse , and entered enthusiastically into the athletic rigours of the new generation of sport climbers . |
| 8 | They prodded the snowy tussocks and peered doubtfully into the gloomy holes under the hedge , while the flakes continued to fall in a soft , crackly silence . |
| 9 | One of them — it looked like Chuck — was safely on the ridge , well above the point where the slope ended and dropped dizzily into the yawning throat of the quarry , but the bigger boy , Dick , was much nearer the edge — perilously near , Sheila thought . |
| 10 | The gas-fire ran out of money and dropped abruptly into the five little blue blisters ; then it died altogether . |
| 11 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 12 | They consumed a prodigious amount of fuel , logs which had to be carted in by the barrow-load , stacked to dry , and fed frequently into the ravenous , red-hot maw of the burner . |
| 13 | Unemployed members who had only two shillings a day came twelve miles by train to attend street corner meetings , or to undertake office duties , spent the surviving pennies on food , and walked home into the small hours of the morning in winter weather . |
| 14 | Tall trees and sweeping branches suddenly appeared from nowhere and vanished mysteriously into the all-encompassing darkness . |
| 15 | He clipped on the lead and stepped forth into the sweet peace of a summer Saturday in Sussex . |
| 16 | I closed the hatch , gripped the rail and shuffled forward into the Wild Wood . |
| 17 | She opened her eyes and looked straight into the beautiful face of the Italian . |
| 18 | Alison , from Aberdulais , West Glamorgan , was walking to a restaurant with her boyfriend when she tripped over a kerb and fell headlong into the Georgian-style leaded windows of a shop . |
| 19 | Alison , from Aberdulais , West Glamorgan , was walking to a restaurant with her boyfriend when she tripped over a kerb and fell headlong into the Georgian-style leaded windows of a shop . |
| 20 | He dragged her across Park Lane , dodging a last , straggling taxi , almost threw her over the guard rails on the far side of the road into Hyde Park and strode ahead into the looming darkness of the trees . |
| 21 | In Prussia the agricultural crisis was to reach its climax in the 1880s and 1890s , but its effects were still to be seen and felt well into the twentieth century . |
| 22 | In a spasm of irritation he pulled a cloak over his nightshirt , took down a pistol from the wall , and went downstairs into the chilly , stone-smelling darkness of the ground floor , looking for servants . |
| 23 | I left him with appreciation and went forward into the central dining car where all the actors were sitting in front of coffee cups and poring over typed sheets of stage directions , muttering under their breaths and sometimes exclaiming aloud . |
| 24 | He cleared his mind and went farther into the vast cathedral . |
| 25 | In the warm and cosy sitting-room Fred Bradley put down the evening paper and stared moodily into the bright fire . |
| 26 | Last Thursday I caught a classic A-frame triangle and bopped straight into the biggest barrel . |
| 27 | One of the frogs fell off the branch and disappeared quietly into the leafy canopy far below . |
| 28 | She went up the ladder , and was immediately grasped by the upper arms and marched unceremoniously into the great hall , where the family had gathered . |
| 29 | Pew turned with a scream , but he turned the wrong way , and ran straight into the first of the horses . |
| 30 | Policies to contain employment levels affected railway employment in all areas and extended far into the public service sector ; here the greatest loss of Health Service and local authority work to private contractors and hospitals was in the South . |