Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He looked like a figure gazing into the mouth of hell , and she shook her head to rid herself of the image . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mansell was slow to start … and Williams team mate Ricardo Patrase got a flyer sneaking into the first bend ahead of the field . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It lay tilted to one side , its body-work rusting into the ground . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It has a two columned portico and , behind this , a central doorway opening into the cella ( 76 ) . |
| 13 | Here it was even possible to freewheel at speed without the risk of the front wheel submerging into a pool of smelly black moss . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Grimm arrived , puffing , at a narrow archway debouching into a domed plaza . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was the Kings who drew early blood racing into an eight two lead . |
| 22 | Before you could say ‘ blimey , look at that stagecoach turning into a pumpkin ’ , Setanta Records had booked The Frank & Walters into Wimbledon YMCA and Camden Underworld , where a support slot in front of a dozen punters showcased their spiky pop instincts and a subtly hysterical enthusiasm for life . |
| 23 | She launched into a long mocking invention about patriotism and monarchists and the Army , inspiring herself with hatred and feeling pleasurably like a pianist going into a cadenza . |
| 24 | Billy felt the wind rushing into the cab as the lorry trundled through the tunnel and he felt relieved . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The tramp held his hand , his sad mouth crinkling into a smile , and his blue eyes peering brightly into Jill 's . |
| 27 | It 's difficult to imaging a newborn chick turning into a beautiful bird like the barn owl . |
| 28 | They make oral sex safer because if placed over the vulva , they prevent HIV transmission through infected vaginal juices or menstrual blood getting into a partner 's mouth — particularly if your partner has bleeding gums , mouth ulcers or cuts . |
| 29 | David Rocastle is the likely stand-in for Batty , with Gary Speed moving into the centre of midfield , his preferred position . |
| 30 | stick kitchen foil — shiny side facing into the room — behind radiators on outside walls . |