Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] into the night " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it goes out in a blaze of colour — a spectacular firework display which starts at 6.45pm and goes on into the night . |
| 2 | He went by the window , without a glance , and moved on into the night . |
| 3 | A SIX-day-old baby escaped with just scratches after being plucked from her father 's arms by a tornado and carried off into the night . |
| 4 | He then said ‘ God bless ! ’ to her , and was carried off into the night . |
| 5 | He left her , lying disordered on the sheepskins ; and after all left a coin beside her , walking out into the night . |
| 6 | He opened the connecting door to the garage and stepped quickly into the darkness , feeling his way around the car and to the sliding door , which he moved open a few inches , allowing himself to slip out into the night . |
| 7 | He leaned close to it and peered out into the night , trying to see what was out there … |
| 8 | Suddenly I shouted out into the night air . |
| 9 | ‘ No , ’ I confessed , so we parted , and I wandered out into the night humming ‘ Summertime in Ireland ’ . |
| 10 | Then we fetched our torches and , abandoning the cosiness of the kitchen , staggered out into the night . |
| 11 | She got out , and , after he had waited to see her enter the house , the car roared off into the night . |
| 12 | He made her as comfortable as possible on the back seat of the car and drove off into the night . |
| 13 | In the end , Anna borrowed Lady Vestey 's BMW car and drove off into the night , angry and humiliated at her very public snub . |
| 14 | The driver , with the predictability of all motorists over the last few weeks , commented on the petrol crisis , overcharged grossly , and drove off into the night . |
| 15 | The thought played over and over in her mind as she waved an absent-minded farewell and drove off into the night alone . |
| 16 | In spite of our scepticism , to our relief the first boat in that area to be investigated proved to match the photograph and we slunk off into the night , doused our lights , and prepared to follow her at a safe distance . |
| 17 | It had seemed to slow down briefly after the impact , as if the driver was considering whether to stop or not , and then had accelerated off into the night . |
| 18 | With a sudden swift movement , he seized the shotgun with his left hand and sent it whirling off into the night after the pistol . |
| 19 | ‘ The graveyard of St. Giles , ’ Sir James testily remarked , looking up into the night sky . |
| 20 | Fiona kept her face away from him , looking out into the night , watching the vertical bright line of light the car threw onto the serried mass of dark conifers . |
| 21 | With a keener sense of danger than the others , and finding it exhilarating , as they certainly would not , he had noticed at once that something was wrong , even before he had rubbed a clear patch on the steamy windows and , looking out into the night , had seen the horizon slowly rising , inch by inch . |
| 22 | Blanche glanced up and down the empty pavement , slid on her leather gloves and loped off into the night . |
| 23 | He knows it , and drives off into the night licking his dollar lips . |
| 24 | The horses lose interest and sashay off into the night . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's no need to storm off into the night . |
| 26 | Sure , they are soon going off into the night , their lights flickering and fading , but it will be with dignity . |
| 27 | This means heading off into the night to visit friends , relatives and neighbours bearing gifts of whisky and ‘ black bun and shorty [ shortcake ] ’ . |
| 28 | Not many miles from the Manchurian border , the Siberian wind gusting the powdered snow round her heels , a suitcase in either hand , one still decorated ludicrously with kettle and saucepan , fur rug over her shoulders , she crunched off into the night . |
| 29 | In the same way they look up into the night sky to see the stars and feel the awe and wonder of the infinite worlds with their infinite distances into which may be submerged all our preoccupations as if we had washed our souls in the oceans of space . |
| 30 | Plummer took a sip of his drink and wandered across to the window , peering out into the night . |