Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] into [art] " in BNC.

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1 The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house .
2 Coins and pots and pans and weapons and tools and horse tack jangled like a demented musical band , and each time someone fell , the clanging beast would sag , then lift the fallen back to their feet and sweep them on into the courtyard .
3 I think it opens up the child 's awareness to what 's available and what 's coming erm moves them on into the next century really .
4 Is actually to terrify the p poor and to drive them in into a s an under and this is part of their philosophy that they 've been following since nineteen seventy nine under Mrs Thatcher .
5 Suddenly , a ladder broke away , precipitating them down into a heap and unfortunately one was killed .
6 " They claimed that they ought to be [ treated as ] free coloni by birth , and that Deodadus the monk [ responsible for running the Mitry estate ] wanted unjustly to bend them down into an inferior service by force , and to afflict them . "
7 His speed and Lachlan 's bull charge through the fight , drawing their own men after him in the vacuum of his passage , ran him and them down into the water as well .
8 It catapults grains of sand at passing ants in an attempt to knock them down into the pit and eat them .
9 And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before .
10 Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again .
11 So how does pancreatic lipase , an enzyme that knocks around in the essentially aqueous environment of the small intestine , get to grips with fats and oils and break them down into the glycerol and fatty acids that are readily absorbed by the lining of the gut ?
12 up until just six years ago crews unhappy about the weight of their cox would bring them down into the brewery for a spot of heavy labour — shovelling mash , to get their weight down .
13 In other words , there are marvellous projects going on which really stimulate the interest of everybody , and it 's , the Engineering Council 's still trying to push them along into the twenty first century itself .
14 The old gentleman who was the owner of the shop encouraged me and helped me along into the business .
15 We have to think ourselves back into a social system and culture very different from our own if we are to respond , in the way P. C. Wren required , to the improbable events and exalted sentiments of the three Geste brothers who , to serve their adored aunt and their fraternal obligations , vanished into the Foreign Legion , taking upon themselves the imputation of having stolen the blue diamond which she had long ago sold and replaced by a fake for the sake of her extravagant husband .
16 Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’
17 ‘ Or you could throw someone out into the Connaught Tunnel .
18 ‘ My brother 's office , ’ Miss Evans said in a hushed voice and hurried them through into a narrow , dark hall with closed doors and a stair rising up .
19 Head seems to work fairly well it 's easily cleaned out easily fed and the cows come to calf we just put them in the pend and after that once they 're a reasonable size we put them through into a byre and it easier to work the situation once the calves are a a fair size and pass the stage especially .
20 Would you mind taking them through into the third-class refreshment room ? ’
21 A burly serjeant-of-arms stopped them , asked their business , and grudgingly let them through into the main courtyard where they were halted by a steward who took them up into the main hall .
22 But this time we learned from our mistake , went after them with everything we had got and just pushed them through into the open sea . ’
23 That wave will send gradual ripples through the market — but it will not be a tidal wave — to float house-owners carelessly upwards before tipping them over into an angry sea of debt .
24 Quigley beat me through into the back kitchen .
25 ‘ Absolutely , ’ he said , flinging himself down into a chair behind it .
26 ‘ Now I come to think of it , ’ he said , easing himself down into the depths of his very easy chair , ‘ that Mrs Entwhistle from the corner said there was something about your dad in one of the Sunday papers , I do n't remember which . ’
27 In the winter of 1945–6 , when he took himself off into the mountains on spiritual retreat , he wrote to one of the United States Army 's cultural attachés with whom he later became great friends :
28 He groaned in agony as he pushed himself up into a kneeling position .
29 Groaning , Tommy curled himself up into a ball , his hands covering his head .
30 The second time he came round , he suddenly pulled himself up into a sitting position .
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