Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv prt] into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That should give Mait pause for thought , ’ he muttered , straightening and stepping back into the cemetery to retrieve his umbrella . |
| 2 | ‘ You did n't think of opening your door and looking out into the corridor ? ’ she asked . |
| 3 | She shivered a little , leaning on the balustrade and looking down into the darkness while he gave some instructions to the maid . |
| 4 | But he had to restrain himself from leaping up and switching the light off and peering out into the street from behind the curtains . |
| 5 | Biff asked coldly , standing up and peering down into the darkness . |
| 6 | Here it was : and starting here he was both fucking and getting back into the tree . |
| 7 | ‘ We shall be rolling up our sleeves and getting out into the communities . |
| 8 | I 'll bet , ’ he added , ‘ that for all your years of book-learning you know nothing about strapping on a pair of waders and getting out into the stream , feeling the water swirl around you — or how to bait a hook — ’ He pulled a small plastic box towards him . |
| 9 | And later she might have sworn , even though the lighting was bad and he was already some distance away , that before turning around and stalking off into the night , the stranger had snarled like a beast . |
| 10 | And so began one of the most successful record production partnerships of the decade — the glitzy music biz rewards of which are an impressive collection of gold discs , hanging along the stairwell at Street Mansions and continuing up into the studio , where they are accompanied by a blown-up print of The Beatles hard at work in the studio on the ‘ Let It Be ’ sessions . |
| 11 | She had let the lines go when the first brutal snap had straightened the nylon , and stood glancing back at me and staring up into the sky as I fought to control the power in the skies above us . |
| 12 | Whores sat on balconies , drinking and staring down into the street . |
| 13 | Instead , the poisonous waste was overflowing into a surface water drain , hidden underneath some pallets , and running out into the River Wey . |
| 14 | Perhaps it would have been better to use the subjects as springboards for complete fiction , leaving the pedantic detail — and the risk of libel suits — behind , and taking off into the story-telling stratosphere . |
| 15 | No sharing and rolling down into the dip in the middle . |
| 16 | Its boundary — the boundary of the Pacific plate — would follow the west coast of North America , but it would then turn sharply south and pass to the seaward , as it were , of both the Galapagos archipelago and Easter Island , before curving to the south of New Zealand , along the spine of South Island and emerging back into the sea near the hot mud springs of Rotorua . |
| 17 | Then , standing up and leaning back into the shadow , she flung the jharo with all the strength she possessed across the border of flowers and into the dark pool of space beyond the firelit roof . |
| 18 | ‘ Claudine , ’ he said tersely , flinging his coat off and striding through into the kitchen . |
| 19 | Nail clippers might also be required to prevent dew-claws from becoming overgrown and curling round into the dog 's flesh . |