Example sentences of "then [verb] [adv prt] into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed agitated , restlessly pacing about , looking out into the crowds , then drawing back into the shelter of the arcade . |
| 2 | I cleaned my arse quickly and pulled my trousers up , pulling the chain , too , and then waddling out into the corridor , zipping up . |
| 3 | There is the metal-ring type muzzle , which is screwed into place via a pin passed across the inside of a ferret 's mouth behind its big teeth and then threaded back into the ring . |
| 4 | I said I believed them to be following the correct route and then crept off into the mist surreptitiously to whip out my compass . |
| 5 | It found an eddy where the outpouring of a supply conduit splashed steadily , and it swung , steadied , and then moved on into the gloom . |
| 6 | From here the path follows the river bank downstream and then heads back into the forest and away from the river before crossing a burn . |
| 7 | They are cooled by water taken from the river Yenisey , which is then discharged back into the river , in contravention of recently-passed environmental legislation . |
| 8 | Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face . |
| 9 | It whined , backed away with its eyes fixed on Grimma , and then darted off into the darkness . |
| 10 | Return to the castle and its second courtyard , then walk through into the final and greatest courtyard , past the limestone blocks of the Romanesque White Tower . |
| 11 | The dormice are weighed and then put back into the nest . |
| 12 | Where they do not exist it can be presumed that either the genuine silver-gilt coronet was used at the funeral and then put back into the strongroom after the funeral , or they have disintegrated . |
| 13 | She carried a long pole which was draped with hanks of haigus wool , and she dropped it across the rails of the staging , then turned back into the gloom of the shop again . |
| 14 | He placed the receiver down , stared at it thoughtfully for a moment , then turned back into the room , intending to join the Hatches in the garden . |
| 15 | Karen pulled out of John 's arms then climbed down into the cabin . |
| 16 | You may not feel that this is always necessary with designs that can be knitted automatically , since they will appear on screen in colour , but it is a great memory jogger and , rather then going back into the programme to look at a design , the colours and design may be seen from the printout . |
| 17 | She eased back and kissed him , then walked on into the kitchen , her limp dictating the tiny sway of her hips . |
| 18 | The man dried his hands and took the phone through to Boy , then walked back into the kitchen . |
| 19 | Alec stared at him for a few seconds , then walked out into the heat and glare of the mid-day sun . |
| 20 | I landed on all fours , stayed on all fours , then scampered off into the blackness . |
| 21 | The disgraced soldier was then dragged back into the glare of publicity last November when the Attorney General successfully challenged her sentence as ‘ unduly lenient ’ . |
| 22 | At Tim 's call , the car slowed down and then swung on into the track leading to Smiling Meadow . |
| 23 | a woman stared suspiciously form the farm 's arch at the two soldiers , then stepped back into the yard and slammed the heavy gate . |
| 24 | The clean water can then flow back into the river . |
| 25 | The child looked up at him , smiled at him , then settled down into the bed . |
| 26 | After a cup of cocoa Willie brushed his teeth over an aluminium bowl and then dashed out into the garden to the little wooden outhouse , wearing his mackintosh and a new pair of gumboots while Tom sheltered him with an umbrella . |
| 27 | To beat the habit of taking an unnecessary emergency breath before speaking , practise this at home : shout ‘ Oy ! ’ before reciting each line of a chosen poem or song , then go on into the line without a breath . |
| 28 | Yes , he thought , tomorrow , he would pay the chaplain to sing one last Mass for his fallen comrades then go back into the city and request from his superiors some mission or task well away from this benighted fortress . |
| 29 | " Bigwig , " he said , " why do n't you swim over now , and then go out into the field and have a look round ? |
| 30 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |