Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] into [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coins and pots and pans and weapons and tools and horse tack jangled like a demented musical band , and each time someone fell , the clanging beast would sag , then lift the fallen back to their feet and sweep them on into the courtyard . |
| 2 | Suddenly , a ladder broke away , precipitating them down into a heap and unfortunately one was killed . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | It catapults grains of sand at passing ants in an attempt to knock them down into the pit and eat them . |
| 5 | up until just six years ago crews unhappy about the weight of their cox would bring them down into the brewery for a spot of heavy labour — shovelling mash , to get their weight down . |
| 6 | His speed and Lachlan 's bull charge through the fight , drawing their own men after him in the vacuum of his passage , ran him and them down into the water as well . |
| 7 | The old gentleman who was the owner of the shop encouraged me and helped me along into the business . |
| 8 | ‘ Or you could throw someone out into the Connaught Tunnel . |
| 9 | Head seems to work fairly well it 's easily cleaned out easily fed and the cows come to calf we just put them in the pend and after that once they 're a reasonable size we put them through into a byre and it easier to work the situation once the calves are a a fair size and pass the stage especially . |
| 10 | Quigley beat me through into the back kitchen . |
| 11 | ‘ Absolutely , ’ he said , flinging himself down into a chair behind it . |
| 12 | ‘ Now I come to think of it , ’ he said , easing himself down into the depths of his very easy chair , ‘ that Mrs Entwhistle from the corner said there was something about your dad in one of the Sunday papers , I do n't remember which . ’ |
| 13 | In the winter of 1945–6 , when he took himself off into the mountains on spiritual retreat , he wrote to one of the United States Army 's cultural attachés with whom he later became great friends : |
| 14 | Groaning , Tommy curled himself up into a ball , his hands covering his head . |
| 15 | The second time he came round , he suddenly pulled himself up into a sitting position . |
| 16 | He worked himself up into the kind of rage that leads to unforgivable things being said . |
| 17 | Denis did n't remember what happened to the bowler hat after the old man had laboured to haul himself up into the cart and , in response to a wave of the gun , had carefully stretched himself out on its messy floor . |
| 18 | Thank goodness your boss has turned himself back into a wardrobe … |
| 19 | BILLIONAIRE Ross Perot last night threw himself back into the race to become US President . |
| 20 | To say I forcibly removed him in a headlock because he was ‘ In five short minutes , playing himself back into the job of Athletico manager ’ , is not only true but also likely to get this fanzine banned within a fifteen-mile radius of ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 21 | He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box . |
| 22 | Tom flung himself back into the chair beside her , still without speaking , and Belinda stood there while Faye gave her a watchful glance . |
| 23 | Martin pressed himself back into the burial plot , his fear of it temporarily forgotten in the face of this new terror . |
| 24 | Let it ring — what do I care ? thought Dyson , as he hurled himself out into the hall to catch it before it stopped ringing . |
| 25 | In desperation , he gave one last , vicious backward kick and launched himself out into the dark . |
| 26 | Filled with shock of a kind that had not been with him since the actor-manager 's first refusal , Paul took himself out into the snow . |
| 27 | ( He achieved a great feat of maritime engineering by building ships on the Atlantic shore , transporting them bodily over the hills he had explored and sailing them off into the Pacific . ) |
| 28 | Early on the morning of the evacuation the families were preparing to embark when , in full sight of the military escort , gunmen surrounded the plane , forced the 11 men into a truck at gunpoint , and drove them off into the bush . |
| 29 | I 'll pull you down into the gutter . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ She 'll drag you down into the gutter with her , Dane — but if that 's all you want from life , then damn you . ’ |