Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] into place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later the belly bounced back into place . |
| 2 | ‘ Yeah , ’ Laidlaw replied , letting the curtain fall back into place . |
| 3 | The Doctor let the wall hanging fall back into place , and hurried out , turning down the hall to the bedroom . |
| 4 | The gag was tugged back into place , cutting off Connelly 's exhortations for mercy . |
| 5 | The head of a narrow strip of lead , zinc or copper , which will form a clip or ‘ tingle ’ , is then fixed to the sliver of batten accessible through the joint exposed by the extracted slate and the slate is slid back into place over this strip and secured by folding the free end of the metal over the lower edge of the slate ( Fig 35 ) . |
| 6 | But in September Ninety Ninety two of these the pins had n't been locked back into place . |
| 7 | As I ran my thumb over them , they immediately sprang back into place perfectly . |
| 8 | But when she heard or saw nothing more , she dropped the net drape back into place , to disappear once more into the darkness of her house . |
| 9 | It was all hands on deck as the crew of the Soren Larsen , prepared to lift the first part of the ship 's 100 ft foremast back into place . |
| 10 | She was about to replace it when she noticed that the satin lining in the bottom of the case had been torn away from one edge , and stitched back into place with large clumsy stitches . |
| 11 | We rose to greet her and then settled back into place like so many fluttering pigeons . |
| 12 | This system helps the bird keep its plumage in shape , and any ruffled feathers are quickly preened back into place . |
| 13 | The fourth stair up creaked as it eased back into place . |
| 14 | With one final intimate raking of her naked form as if unable to help himself , he allowed the curtain to swish back into place . |
| 15 | The blanket fell back into place . |
| 16 | She moved the drier and continued working on his hair , one part of her mind marvelling at how perfectly the golden locks fell back into place . |
| 17 | After this she would return to the far wall and wait for the papers to be put back into place , so she could repeat the game . |
| 18 | His eyes swivelled crazily about one last time before settling back into place . |
| 19 | Slipping for years , pointed out tactfully by our friends and neighbours , pushed back into place with the bamboo boathook , they had chosen that day to fall . |
| 20 | The gate was up , pushed back into place by two of the Tuthanach women . |
| 21 | Vein unkinks , blood flows , muscle expands , tendons ease , shoulder bone snuggles back into place . |
| 22 | Her gaze slid round the unfamiliar room , then she suddenly gave a loud groan as everything slid back into place . |