Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few tried vainly to coalesce into a hardier entity . |
| 2 | The burglar also tried unsuccessfully to break into the house and smashed a double glazed window . |
| 3 | He tried hard to get into the spirit of the thing . |
| 4 | The nurse sent to accompany Leslie tried hard to melt into the background as the overjoyed family spent several hours opening presents under the tree . |
| 5 | But , miraculously , everything seemed suddenly to fit into place and we managed to put all the horror behind us and start again . |
| 6 | It looked a harsh decision for the Welshman was on his back after making a tackle on the Saints forward Harrison and Bishop seemed merely to blunder into his legs . |
| 7 | If we were still in the veiled forests then I would be remembering more , but we drove hard to get into the open , and banish the memory . |
| 8 | He met Jinneth 's gaze steadily , until her smile faltered and she turned away to speak into her husband 's ear . |
| 9 | Through the little side gate , across the road , and we turned left to walk into Orange . |
| 10 | Prominent in this development was a Lewes-born doctor who had studied at the University of Leyden and returned home to marry into the local gentry , combining estate management with medical speculations , and systematic enquiry . |
| 11 | I started really to pray into that situation . |
| 12 | To most serious naturalists ( and the term ‘ biologist ’ , coined at the beginning of the century by Lamarck and Trew , took long to come into use ) , relationships which were not affinities were not really of much interest . |
| 13 | ‘ I was attempting to retrieve my own property , ’ Ashley said , and when he strode forward to look into the skip she pointed . |
| 14 | Denis nodded and leaned forward to speak into Boxer 's ear . |
| 15 | The bard leaned forward to peer into his chief 's face . |
| 16 | Forester moved the machine aside and leaned forward to look into the dark space that was uncovered . |
| 17 | I filled the crack above with belay nuts , tied off , and eventually relaxed enough to hang into my harness and haul in the rope . |
| 18 | Nearly every farmer had a barrel of the stuff in his cow house in those days and I had only to go into the corner and turn the tap . |
| 19 | And if any of his fans still needed convincing , they had only to look into the happy , laughing face of his adoring wife Jean , at his side as she has been since his horrific car accident nearly three months ago . |
| 20 | He wanted badly to creep into her arms and be told he had done marvellously well , that she had put on her red dress and her new pumps specially for him , for his seduction . |
| 21 | The recruits hurried below to pack into the on-ship chapel , where incense burned before a lambent golden icon of the Emperor and an alabaster idol of Rogal Dorn , the founding Primarch of the Imperial Fists . |
| 22 | The reason he wanted desperately to get into the company was that Ninette de Valois , to whom he had already spoken about his choreographic ambitions , had told him that experience of working with other choreographers and dancing their ballets was essential to learn his craft . |