Example sentences of "and [verb] into [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The landlord turned and spat into the dirty rushes .
2 Branches cracked from trees and plunged into the turbulent waters behind Tallis , who clutched her cloak and cowl , holding them tightly against the tearing wind .
3 The structure can be stabilised by a triangulation that is most economic when symmetrical and evolves into the familiar forms of roof trusses , bridges , arches and vaulting .
4 It is approached along a forty-mile-long fiord and the approach instructions are that the pilot should turn left at the entrance by the sunken freighter that sticks up in the fiord , or else run out of airspace and crash into the sheer mountains that rise to seven thousand feet at the end of it .
5 We sang All things bright and beautiful as loud as we could and tucked into the tea-table contributions of aunts , cousins and friends with rare gusto .
6 We were sitting under the canopy of a tree that overhung a two-storey building and dissolved into the inky heavens .
7 To make the bullrushes , take the cocktail sticks and press into the 8 leaves around the side of the pond cake .
8 Dampen the edges of the holes , cut out green holly leaves and press into the leaf-shaped holes in the burgundy ribbon , then smooth gently to secure in place .
9 Finally the head roared ‘ Time 's past ’ , whereupon it fell to the floor with a tremendous noise and shattered into a thousand pieces .
10 She did n't know very much about romance , to be sure , just enough to know that it seemed to be a force that did not like to be tamed and squeezed into the orderly compartments of people 's lives .
11 He was keen to encourage the vocational aspects of art education and attracted into the various departments concerned with commercial art men and women of talent , including Macvyn Wright , Toni del Renzio , Mervyn Peake , Albert Halliwell ( later to follow Johnstone to Central School of Art where he became a catalyst for the teaching of basic design ) and Gertrude Hermes who was responsible for wood-engraving .
12 At the top of the stairs between the two galleries Donna paused and peered into the thick shadows , listening for movement from either above or below .
13 He was weeping quietly , allowing the tears to run down his cheeks and drip into the dusty shadows around his feet .
14 Then he and Nina and the detective inspector were hurrying from the building and climbing into an unmarked police car .
15 Then he lay there gasping and looking into the unreadable eyes of Isay .
16 This cooled and condensed into the solar planets , which were later themselves subject to more distortion by the Sun .
17 He is in fact participating by following the physiotherapist 's instructions and relaxing into the required movements .
18 ‘ Champagne , hot scented baths , Sibelius , tiny kittens , very , very , very expensive underwear that you hardly know you 're wearing , and skiing at night and going into the big stores on fifth Avenue and trying on all the three-hundred-dollar dresses and shoes and then saying that I do n't like any of them — I do that quite often — and … ’
19 She stumbled back and turned into the reaching arms of a man-shaped thing that was coming down on her .
20 Indeed , Althusser claims to identify the origins of such an attitude in the law ; he suggests that the ideological notion of the legal subject as the owner of property was taken over by Kant and Descartes and transformed into the philosophical categories of subject and object .
21 As they come to the final fence Second Schedule being pressed by Ebony Jane and Bishops Hall on the nearside and over the last Second Schedule and Bishops Hall on the nearside , Ebony Jane in third , in fourth place is Joe White and racing into the closing stages it 's Second Schedule with Bishops Hall on the nearside Graham Bradley again as they go to the line , Bishops Hall wins it for Harry , Second Schedule is second , Joe White is third , Ebony Jane four .
22 AS THE FIRST chimes of noon from the bells of Shandon broke over the pavements and washed into the busy shops , the people of Cork halted in their step or turned from what they were doing to cross themselves and murmur the Angelus prayer .
23 Tuppe held his nose and barked into the empty Themmos flask .
24 With a struggle , I broke the spell the woodcarver had cast , and escaped into the lamplit streets , promising to return before I left Sligo .
25 ‘ Our people made it pretty clear there were enough guns still floating loose from the war and getting into the wrong hands .
26 This was the fourth plane Polly had heard arrive since she had been literally dragged from the boat , marched along the marina , and bundled into the white-painted Customs building .
27 Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers .
28 MEANWHILE , if you 're not actually strangling a turkey at the moment then you might like to do the next worse thing and plunge into the unsavoury giblets of the 1990 calendar of the National Association of Conservative Graduates .
29 Will German think-tanks ever go the way of some of their English-speaking counterparts , and plunge into the deep waters of ideology ?
30 I watched him arrive and disappear into the black shadows .
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