Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He flew into an anti-aircraft shell with the precise catastrophe of a drunken driver speeding into a wall . |
| 2 | Muzzily overlaying this film onto recorded shots of the Daleks firing into the jungle — complete with ‘ negative ’ effect-gave an image similar in impact to the Id monster fight featured in the classic sf film Forbidden Planet . |
| 3 | It is far easier to imagine Ms or Mr Trim tucking into a low-fat meal , perhaps featuring fish or chicken accompanied by vegetables . |
| 4 | He had drunk over a bottle and a half already but showed little outward sign of over-consumption , except for his accent curdling into a thicker Scots . |
| 5 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 6 | The trail starts from the shop in the middle of the campsite and follows a road to the east leading to a well-marked trail climbing into a plantation of larch trees . |
| 7 | But if some nosey neighbour says she often spends a lot of time with me , those policemen are going to pile into her like teeth tearing into a peach . |
| 8 | He looked like a figure gazing into the mouth of hell , and she shook her head to rid herself of the image . |
| 9 | Once the sense of the ridiculous had begun it was like waves gathering into a crescendo . |
| 10 | AT least 62 people were killed and 3,000 missing last night after an underwater earthquake sent 50ft tidal waves crashing into the coast of Nicaragua . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know ! ’ she grinned , absorbed in watching a group of beautifully dressed Venetians stepping into a gondola . |
| 12 | To the extent that such approaches may suggest the desirability of changing over to a counter-force nuclear policy , they escape from the moral frying-pan of counter-city targeting into the strategic fire of counter-force , which has the twin disadvantages that it might put a premium on first strike and that it would in any case result in frightful civilian losses . |
| 13 | He crossed the street , dodging the traffic , reaching the door in time to see a second figure stepping into the elevator . |
| 14 | There were large noses sticking into the lens , and people waving at the camera . |
| 15 | For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company . |
| 16 | Donna sent the Volvo crashing into the Audi again , then shifted up through the gears and drove off . |
| 17 | Sharpe looked down the high street , half expecting to see French Dragoons galloping into the small village , but it was only the Prince of Orange who had abandoned his carriage and taken a horse from one of his escort . |
| 18 | Mansell was slow to start … and Williams team mate Ricardo Patrase got a flyer sneaking into the first bend ahead of the field . |
| 19 | Each one of them exterminated in Sobibor , the photograph fluttering into a pile of a thousand personal papers and documents with tens of thousands of spectacles and hundreds of thousands of shoes and boots — to be salvaged or burnt and either way lost for ever . |
| 20 | It lay tilted to one side , its body-work rusting into the ground . |
| 21 | It would be like a strong wind tearing into the warmth , ripping the fabric of the old rugs , overturning the lamps , plucking loose all the hair so skilfully wound up into neat and careful buns , unravelling her mother 's dainty stitches , unravelling her mother . |
| 22 | Laura Wyndham 's deep sapphire-blue eyes sparkled with amusement , her lips widening into a broad , wry smile as she entered the large living-room of the penthouse apartment . |
| 23 | It has a two columned portico and , behind this , a central doorway opening into the cella ( 76 ) . |
| 24 | You 'll have to wait until 1993 to see German , French and Italian shops crowding into the high street . |
| 25 | Here it was even possible to freewheel at speed without the risk of the front wheel submerging into a pool of smelly black moss . |
| 26 | Semi-conscious , he slid slowly down , his feet and legs sinking into the freezing slush at the bottom . |
| 27 | ‘ The conventional myth seeks to depict the battle-scarred anthropologist as a lone figure wandering into a village , settling in and ‘ picking up the language ’ in a couple of months ; at the most , we may find references to translators being dispensed with after a few weeks . |
| 28 | Remembering how responsive Faye 's blood glucose level was to stress , she was about to monitor its level , but , as she got out the kit , Tom arrived , his tall figure catapulting into the room and only a slight untidiness to his dark hair betraying the fact that he had so recently been locked in Marise 's arms in the garden . |
| 29 | As he passed through the light spilling into the inn-yard from one of the windows , a voice from a deep , shadowed doorway called , ‘ Hello , Seb . |
| 30 | But as it was I travelled only so far down the ramp and stuck there with my head and shoulders protruding into the street . |