Example sentences of "[adv prt] into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Suddenly he rose from his chair , gave a quick look round the office , then went across to the window , where he stood looking down into the courtyard . |
| 62 | Marian crossed to the stair and looked down into the chamber they had left . |
| 63 | One by one he filled each chamber with powder and then , without wadding or patch , placed a soft lead ball on its mouth and pulled the long lever beneath the barrel ; this lever moved the rammer which forced the lead down into the chamber and sealed it so completely , the Collector had been assured , that the powder would still fire even if you immersed your arm completely in water . |
| 64 | Held close to the chest , the bundles are dragged backwards down into the chamber for the babes ( up to five in a litter ) to snuggle up into . |
| 65 | They were still laughing as they stepped down into the hold . |
| 66 | A moment later the hatch shot open and men in boots came down into the hold , their voices loud in the confined space . |
| 67 | Our immediate problems were sorting out our living arrangements , for although it had been agreed with Tandri that we would occupy the ship 's only excuse for a cabin we now found our things moved down into the hold . |
| 68 | He found one in moments , and silently went down into the hold . |
| 69 | Patrick lay looking down into the dell . |
| 70 | 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 ? |
| 71 | In answer she shrugged the thin silk robe from her shoulders , then drew his head down into the cushion of her breasts , curling her legs about him . |
| 72 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
| 73 | She dropped her robe on to the stool near by and stepped into the water , sinking slowly down into the warmth . |
| 74 | ‘ So cold , ’ sliding down into the hay . |
| 75 | He could never see the danger of such things , he could never see the way they 'd drive the country down into the stratum of the beasts . |
| 76 | These hostilities and complaints from readers were occupying the Editor 's attentions as much as his war memoirs : one correspondent , for instance , was angry about an attack he had made on James Joyce , while another accused him of letting Christopher Stone ‘ drag the paper down into the subhuman world of jazz ’ . |
| 77 | Jasper looked out of the window and down into the candlelight . |
| 78 | I looked down into the punt and saw Rachel gazing up at me from beneath a wide straw hat . |
| 79 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 80 | ‘ Drop yourself down into the glove , d'Arquebus . |
| 81 | And Oz had worked just as hard as she had , not stopping to gaze down into the dale , but picking and picking until his fingers were stained blue-purple . |
| 82 | She sat and stared along the Edge , down into the dale , not bothering to strain her ears and listen to the radio , because she knew it was pointless . |
| 83 | Approaching Keld I dropped down into the dale where Great Sleddale Beck falls over a succession of stairs , hard bands of limestone that have resisted the action of the water to form an impressive series of falls all of which are within a mile or so of Keld village . |
| 84 | She lowered herself further down into the gully , and urinated on the ground . |
| 85 | Mops his brow with a sweat band on his left wrist , straightens up now , comes steaming in again to bowl to that 's a quick ball and fends down into the gully , off the back foot , short bouncing steered it down too smooth . |
| 86 | Jezrael swung herself breathless over a bar of rock and down into the wind-shadow of a huge erratic that faced the sharp-cut sunrise . |
| 87 | It was funny in my day , when I first started there you used to get , mix up some size and er in a pot , in a proper pot and take it down into the mess room and put it on the stove , coal stove , heat it up and you let it boil over there was a terrific smell about the place you can imagine , the size but that 's what we used to do in those days . |
| 88 | Brilliant sunshine poured down into the herb garden , and the drowsy hum of bees seemed curiously at odds with the sharpening tension between the two doctors . |
| 89 | I jumped up and ran laughing down through the grass and the bushes , down into the glen . |
| 90 | Leaning out over the rail he stared down into the moon pool . |