Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] into [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As children Kylie and sister Dannii spent many lost hours singing into their bedroom mirrors . |
| 2 | It also at various times gathered into its ambit important figures within general educational administration ( for example , Haddow , Sadler , Barker , Curzon , Mans bridge , and a host of college Heads , Registrars Provosts , and Vice Chancellors ) . |
| 3 | Her fingers wound into his hair , guiding his head to her neck . |
| 4 | Finally , the closure raft inched carefully into the remaining gap , and after the briefest hesitation the ramps dropped into their receiving lugs and were pinned . |
| 5 | Her teeth sank into her bottom lip , biting back a cry , and she winced . |
| 6 | Teeth sank into her cheek . |
| 7 | Teeth sank into his leg , and he was jerked under the water . |
| 8 | She glanced at him , almost hopefully , but the impact of his virility and arrogance remained undiminished , and her fingers curled into her palms , painted nails slicing the soft skin . |
| 9 | I 'm sitting here at the computer even now , with images flashing into my mind of all the spots I want to go to , but have n't had the opportunity yet . |
| 10 | Then he got me and two more drivers to go into his room for a hand of pontoon . |
| 11 | When he turned back into it , waves smashed into his face but the tangled stays had caught round the bow pulpits , holding the thrashing mast sections at bay . |
| 12 | As he spoke , pictures came into my mind . |
| 13 | The enumeration in such schemes reflects an analytical approach to knowledge , with subjects subdivided into their component subfields . |
| 14 | Once you have identified the points that are going to be crucial in your particular job , you may have to be persuasive if you want improved safeguards built into your agreement . |
| 15 | Apart from any safeguards built into your employment contract , you may be eligible for statutory rights not to be unfairly dismissed and to redundancy pay calculated on the basis of a formula reflecting your age , years of service and ( up to a point ) salary level . |
| 16 | And then , with the force of a hurled dart , her mother 's words shot into her mind . |
| 17 | Then , like a dagger , Dawn 's words stabbed into her brain and she struggled furiously as he bent to kiss her . |
| 18 | Gavin stuck his head out from under the duvet , giving me cause once more to marvel at the impressive way the lad 's shoulders merged into his head with no apparent narrowing in between ( this appeared to be the principal physical benefit bestowed by the game of rugby ; the acquisition of an extremely thick neck , just as the most important thing one could take to the sport was a thick skull , and from it an intact one still in satisfactory two-way communication with one 's spinal cord ) . |
| 19 | Once a white owl swept silently overhead , so low that Hazel saw its dark eyes looking into his own . |
| 20 | Fabia asked , her wide green eyes looking into his dark ones as she sought for his understanding . |
| 21 | Mrs Plumptry 's words came into her head , and she could hear the old lady 's delighted cackle . |
| 22 | For instance , I was writing a new song and it was making sense and suddenly these words came into my head : Once there was two Mexican women/ran over the hill/ripped off their skin/and ate it up . |
| 23 | Words came into my ears and my fingers made the appropriate movements . |
| 24 | Again she felt overwhelmed with fatigue , but sly , lecherous images slunk into her mind , like a guilty dog sneaking in after a roll in something bad . |
| 25 | Your mitochondria — the tiny structures inside muscle cells which supply the energy to get you moving — are often in tatters , and small blood vessels leading into your muscles look like construction sites . |
| 26 | As the cost of technology has fallen so the factors have been able to offer clients links into their databases . |
| 27 | Lady Grubb had fallen easily into the habit of behaving to her children as if she were some doggedly snobbish godmother , inviting them home every few months to look into their marriage prospects and treating the occasion as if it were a country weekend that put her to a lot of trouble , though her house was actually in the middle of London and fully staffed with unhappy au-pair girls . |
| 28 | He raised his eyes to stare into my face , and I felt a surge of fear . |
| 29 | Two words pop into me head and they 're oh hell . |
| 30 | Her eyes retreated into their sockets . |