Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] into the [noun sg] " 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 Straight , clean-cut stone walls and a steady slabbed roof led on into the hill .
3 The blade plunged on into the heather at the side of the track .
4 I waved to him and passed on into the lecture room . ’
5 But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world .
6 This includes considerable inspection work , firstly to establish what grinding needs to be done , and then to ensure that the body is fit , after they have completed their welding and grinding , to go on into the paint shop .
7 In a hundred years ' time a solitary figure might well be seen on a lonely road gazing down into the valley , wondering about ‘ Little Hintock ’ .
8 At the end of the gallery the girl halted , gazing down into the hall through one of the archways cut into the wall .
9 In another mood , while gazing down into the vapour one could imagine the turbulent creation of the Earth with the alpha tracks like mountain ranges constantly forming , disappearing and reforming .
10 He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray .
11 She got down into the hall .
12 Slowly , inch by inch , the three men advanced the half mile across no-man's-land , towards the Allied front line , pressing their faces back down into the mud whenever the moon reappeared from behind its unreliable screen .
13 But when she had washed her hair and dressed in a new pair of designer jeans and a silk shirt that had been a Christmas present and which she 'd never worn before — it was n't to Eva 's house that she went but back down into the town , towards the theatre and the Franz Joseph .
14 Sleek towers that were telescoping down into the undercity , leaving great smooth plazas where they had previously reared , chequerboard-patterned spaces with a hint of roof outlines .
15 Leaving the grassland behind , the terrain became more barren with cliffs and rocks tumbling down into the sea .
16 Louise cried out as she felt her body tumbling down into the blackness .
17 It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness .
18 The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring .
19 Misumenops nepenthicola , a spider , lives there and captures flies ; if these are distasteful they are ( sometimes ) thrown back into the pitcher ; if disturbed , the spider goes down into the liquid on a thread , its armour and a bubble of air making it immune to the digestive juices there .
20 Your name goes down into the future as Mary Shelley . ’
21 And then I 'm hobbling along into the bathroom .
22 A short ladder pitch from one of the ventilation shafts led down into the level .
23 We tumbled down into the hole like so many Alices and gazed in wonder around us .
24 The tape measure had now to go down into the hollow as well as across the circle , and it was not long enough to do this .
25 From year to year they used the same handrails to go down into the past : lifting the cartwheel at the crossroads , the drilling sessions by the river , the first ambush , marching at night between the safe houses , the different characters in the houses , the food , the girls …
26 Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley .
27 My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place .
28 Nevertheless : If a teacher has , himself , to go down into the library with the whole class , or if you can only afford a third of a teacher to be in the library at certain times , then you are quite simply restricting the amount of work that can go on .
29 Agnes stood directly in front of her mother now as she said , ‘ Would it do you any harm either to go down into the shop or to go over to the house and change the linen ?
30 From this vantage you peer down into the crater lake , its surface green with the fresh growth of ‘ totora ’ , a reed otherwise known only in the Andes .
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