Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 2 | As a significant movement of popular protest over sex purity marked a successful assault on the authority of male professionals , thereby drawing into the political arena groups hitherto denied access or without a voice . |
| 3 | She landed up with still more work on her hands when the wardrobe mistress fell ill and she found herself gamely stepping into the breach . |
| 4 | Beyond Blakeney , the combination of waters from the Blackpool and Soudley Brooks become known as the Bideford Brook , wending its way through the meadows , eventually emptying into the Severn at Brims Pill . |
| 5 | iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace . |
| 6 | It is exhilarating to begin the race with up to 500 people all surging into the water . ’ |
| 7 | Yorkshire Television is apparently going into the new franchise with not a woman in its top rank . |
| 8 | When people have taken too much drink it can make some strange situations , especially going into the locks |
| 9 | The waves were crashing down rising into the air , then crashing against the water below , spreading the beach with a white spray . |
| 10 | Having spent so long staring into the national navel we can raise our heads . |
| 11 | So changing into the future , you can do it at any time , what it actually means , it 'll affects the next month 's premiums , and switching , er , it 's on a bid to bid basis , from one fund to the other , and we charge them eighteen pounds per occasion . |
| 12 | That was when they all realized acting like this was only playing into the hands of the authorities and giving them a real basis for enforcing their petty laws . |
| 13 | Inside their families , too , their roles are in a state of flux , with the past , the peasant past , the tribal past , the colonial past each with its own particular prescription for the woman 's role constantly intruding into the present . |
| 14 | After recent bad weather and rough seas , local farmers are concerned their land is literally disappearing into the sea . ’ |
| 15 | He would turn his back on him while he was talking , or look down smiling into the mouthpiece . |
| 16 | They realised that with a car slowly sinking into the marsh there was not a minute to spare . |
| 17 | Its corpse lay at her feet , slowly sinking into the moss and mud . |
| 18 | Colonel Lin Foh , and two bodyguards , were just stepping into the adjacent lift . |
| 19 | Opposite him DS Stuart Finn was smoking a Marlboro , blowing out streams of smoke , alternately gazing into the depths of his tea cup and glancing out of the window . |
| 20 | ( Cassettes of the album were already filtering into the higher regions of the music press ) . |
| 21 | They exchanged what he describes , with lowered eyes , as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ , which I imagine to be a sordid discussion about the cost of one swift and surely emotionally unsatisfying and physically degrading copulation , and proceeded on their way up the now rapidly dusking street — one of them bright with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and the other already stepping into the heavy gloom of unavoidable and deserved shame or guilt . |
| 22 | Luney was already stepping into the boat when Franky saw Delia Sutherland half-way down the steps . |
| 23 | Corbett offered to double the usual fee and they were soon climbing into the skiff and making their way out across the Forth . |
| 24 | You 're not opening into the file are you ? |
| 25 | He postulates that such particles spend most of their time in a non-material or etheric state , momentarily leaping into the physical plane like a salmon leaping fleetingly into view above the water surface . |
| 26 | A ship carrying some of his Greenland minerals became a prize-of-war and was taken into Leith where his collection was sold , thus passing into the hands of Scottish collectors . |
| 27 | She looked familiar , and I was soon looking into the green and expressive eyes of Sally Drayton , who had been a fellow student at Sussex University . |
| 28 | THE Chattahoochee river seems tranquil enough as it meanders 385 miles from north Georgia 's mountains past Atlanta , along the Alabama border and across the Florida Panhandle , finally spilling into the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 29 | Jimmy 's hands were not sinking into the concrete . |
| 30 | It will be objected perhaps that it is too late in the day to try to re-establish our crumbling values on ‘ Be aware ’ , since the True is already sinking into the gulf which has swallowed the Beautiful and the Good . |