Example sentences of "and [verb] [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 | Should you decide to stick to sherry and branch out into the heavier aloroso you will have a thick head tomorrow and we will have an entertaining evening . ’ |
| 6 | Carson ran up the brick steps to the courtyard 's wooden side-door , rattling the bolt free and stepping out into the narrow alley that ran down the side of the house . |
| 7 | Tony Hands of Colchester has leap-frogged above Harris in the rankings and goes straight into the main event . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Never quite stationary , the mag-lev decanted her on a windy platform and whined away into the cavernous tunnel . |
| 10 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 11 | It was then that a familiar figure detached itself from the shadows of the trees and moved out into the dim orange light of one of the streetlamps . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's not only the alcohol that 's suffered from self-enforced cutbacks : the Franks ( ironically enough ) used to be a Martini band — any gig , any town , any night , they 'd pack their guitars and socks and head off into the Tranzophobic sunset , until exhaustion fully reared its head and the heart decided that home was definitely the place to be . |
| 14 | The car leaps forward , tears between two lorries and lurches back into the middle lane . |
| 15 | Some of the men undressed to their loincloths and waded out into the cold water while others pushed the trees from the bank . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then she padded back into the bathroom , wriggled out of her nightie , and sank down into the hot water . |
| 19 | After a cursory ‘ Ireland will be free , ’ the politician then adds with glee ‘ but what I really want to say is thank you mother , thank you father , thank you … ’ and heads off into the normal ‘ thank you auntie Doreen ’ award winner 's speech . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ A whole city partying — and transported back into the eighteenth century ! ’ |
| 23 | The train stopped there long enough for me to run along the line and climb up into the great diesel engine driven by Bert Coad from Perth and Hilton Hinchcliff from Kalgoorlie . |
| 24 | This suffering may be associated with rapidly changing configurations of personality , being a new person one day , and sinking back into the old self on the next , only to find that some minor episode puts the new organisation of self again in a position of regnancy . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The gas-fire ran out of money and dropped abruptly into the five little blue blisters ; then it died altogether . |
| 27 | I replace the spare rounds in the small cardboard box , look around for where to put them , then slip them into my jacket pocket , and ease back into the comfortable armchair . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He let go and ducked back into the driving rain . |
| 30 | If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity . |