Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In preparation for the ceremony of toppling , a huge power pylon containing the loaves to allow them to fall out into the water , the group made an application to be granted an exemption from the law prohibiting the dumping of waste at sea . |
| 2 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 3 | And yet , what is required , if teachers are ever to enjoy the prestige of true professionals , is to encourage them to reach out into the society they are there to serve , rather than for them to retreat behind their school walls . |
| 4 | The three of them trooped out into the hallway . |
| 5 | Well anyway , it reaches night and the three of them go down into the attic . |
| 6 | Still , it was great to see them go back into the wild when they were old enough . ’ |
| 7 | You just feel United what , were two nil down after fourteen minutes erm things really could have gone so badly for them , but they held firm , they got back into the game and full credit to all of them . |
| 8 | By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point . |
| 9 | ‘ And now , ’ she said much later , as they got back into the car , ‘ for Lord Byron . |
| 10 | And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across . |
| 11 | They got back into the car and drove slowly along the rutted , narrow turnoff , until finally Nicolo pointed to a low rise . |
| 12 | They spent two days on safari while they were there , ending with a camel ride in the Sahara desert where they rode off into the sunset ! |
| 13 | ‘ Pretty woman , your friend , ’ Sir George said , as they rode out into the cold . |
| 14 | At daybreak , though , they passed out into the ocean proper , still heating to the north-west to get out of the miserable cold . |
| 15 | From my second-floor vantage point I could see my classmates as they tumbled out into the quad playing catch with my shoes . |
| 16 | They plunged down into the forest with a great clattering of hooves and jingling of harness , and the acrid smell of horse-dung lingered about the village for days afterwards . |
| 17 | Soon they were calling and shouting to each other as they moved off into the forest . |
| 18 | After starting in the pillbox , they moved out into the rain on the grounds that they were Irish , and came wonderfully just as a shaft of sun broke through and warmed them , too poetical , too symbolic , too fucking marvellous for words , crooned Jessica . |
| 19 | As they moved back into the drawing room Alex Mair introduced Dalgliesh . |
| 20 | They moved back into the sitting room and drank coffee . |
| 21 | There he stood , a bogus angel standing between God the Creator and the people He had created , as they crumbled back into the clay they were made from . |
| 22 | Then , as one , they slink back into the darkness , seeking privacy and safety in the womb of the undercut . |
| 23 | They paddled out into the middle of a large convoy that was anchored there , attached the mines and returned to Kabrit for breakfast . |
| 24 | On the fourth day , they drove out into the country , and were married by an extremely flustered official in a small mairie , some fifty kilometres outside Paris . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought you were n't jealous and possessive ! ’ she said shakingly as they drove off into the traffic . |
| 26 | Here I feel awake and ready , compelled to be on my feet when the sun reaches us , and the cattle , fretful and peckish , are released in a torrent of bay and brown and white , their huge horns gradually unlocking and separating as they spread out into the plain . |
| 27 | They came out into the corridor together , Rostov holding back as he allowed the older and more senior man to go before him . |
| 28 | She smoked more than she had done before too lighting a cigarette with real hunger when they came out into the sunlight . |
| 29 | It was not until they came out into the clearing where the lame horse was dismally hobbling amongst the forest grasses that he became aware of what had happened . |
| 30 | ‘ He does n't totally trust them either , ’ the Director said to Rostov as they came out into the open . |