Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb past] into the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The term ‘ hall ’ includes all the rectangular timber buildings whose only remains are the postholes and beam-slots dug into the subsoil .
2 The earth split open , and buildings tumbled into the fissures .
3 We drove through the humid night and things flew into the beam of the headlights .
4 One or two , their horses killed under them , were held for a time unable to fall , and others slithered into the river , its shore by now churned into slime , and drowned there in their harness .
5 They cursed the trailing brambles that caught at their ankles and set up shouts as rabbits and pheasants fled into the darkness before them .
6 From the first day of the war the security forces went in fear of the unseen enemy : agents and provocateurs smuggled into the country under the guise of fugitives from Nazi persecution .
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