Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He looked like a figure gazing into the mouth of hell , and she shook her head to rid herself of the image . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He crossed the street , dodging the traffic , reaching the door in time to see a second figure stepping into the elevator . |
| 7 | There were large noses sticking into the lens , and people waving at the camera . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Donna sent the Volvo crashing into the Audi again , then shifted up through the gears and drove off . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mansell was slow to start … and Williams team mate Ricardo Patrase got a flyer sneaking into the first bend ahead of the field . |
| 12 | It lay tilted to one side , its body-work rusting into the ground . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It has a two columned portico and , behind this , a central doorway opening into the cella ( 76 ) . |
| 15 | You 'll have to wait until 1993 to see German , French and Italian shops crowding into the high street . |
| 16 | Semi-conscious , he slid slowly down , his feet and legs sinking into the freezing slush at the bottom . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But as it was I travelled only so far down the ramp and stuck there with my head and shoulders protruding into the street . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's the … polyneuritis … ’ he heard himself say , as Donald sneaked towards the medical dictionary , his big handsome head bowed with concern , his grey eyes looking into the distance , in the direction of the local tennis court . |
| 21 | ‘ Twelve o'clock ! ’ he called out as she stepped on to the pavement ; then he was gone , the little green car melding into the rest of the traffic and rapidly becoming lost to sight . |
| 22 | There is traffic moving , it 's moving quite freely apart from the cars going into the car park just behind Clifford 's Tower . |
| 23 | The next minute she was running out of the yard and into the street again and into the shelter of the doorway leading into the hat shop . |
| 24 | In the uncomfortable silence that followed , while the others were trying to think of something tactful to say , the sound of a car pulling into the courtyard sounded unnaturally loud . |
| 25 | Thus the 32 over-life-sized bronze head of Augustus found at Meroë ( Sudan ) was detached from its body by Meroitic tribesmen raiding Roman camps in upper Egypt , carried to the site of a temple of victory , and deliberately buried beneath the steps leading into the temple . |
| 26 | Men in civilian clothes moved up and down the steps leading into the narrow three-storey building . |
| 27 | He slung his jacket over his shoulder and , anointing his fingertips in the breast pocket of his shirt , ascended the two shallow steps leading into the main part of the house . |
| 28 | From the moment you bruise your thighs clambering into the bucket seats and flick the engine into life , it 's clear that compromises are out . |
| 29 | Billy felt the wind rushing into the cab as the lorry trundled through the tunnel and he felt relieved . |
| 30 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |