Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] into the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Some geezer got down into the tunnels and found his way out . ’
2 A possible framework for comprehensive assessment is offered through the concepts of quality of life and risk : two related , multidimensional concepts which can be translated into statements of purpose and scope as well as broken down into the factors which constitute quality of life and risk .
3 Reconsider this planned essay with the introduction broken down into the parts as suggested .
4 A twisting road led down into the bushes , and the Doctor set off down it .
5 And was the water there to go down into the villages ?
6 The Sergeant was driving , and the windscreen wipers were waving crescents of slush away from the glass as they headed on into the teeth of the storm .
7 He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls .
8 It was a gladness to slip down into the sheets knowing the day had ended .
9 This meal of horse might be compared to the draught of air that a drowning man who has fought his way to the surface manages to inhale before being whirled down into the depths again .
10 Further , some at least of the influential individuals in a community may operate outside the field of industrial relations : drawing on the work of Blauner ( 1960 ) , Bulmer suggests that the strong occupational communities characteristic of mining settlements occur because the social relations forged in the workplace are carried over into the arenas of non-work activity , creating overlapping primary group affiliations in which
11 I was convinced he was about to do the same to me , when he suddenly appeared to notice the tent for the first time , shied away and crashed off into the trees .
12 For a second she thought they must have turned the other way , and then she saw them again , riding through the trees , the sunlight striking them before they moved off into the shadows .
13 The not inconsiderable amount of time clients spend in hospital and campus services without supervision in part reflects the option for clients to wander off into the dormitories unnoticed .
14 The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards .
15 At Cajabamba we joined a slightly better road , and soon afterwards we turned west and headed up into the mountains through Huamachuco , climbing all the way .
16 After about forty minutes Van Gelder moved up into the bows with a portable six-inch searchlight which , on such a clear night , had an effective range of over a mile .
17 Here , perhaps , all the ocean floor material has been carried up into the mountains .
18 To experience an exhilarating feeling of flight , imagine you are about to soar up into the clouds as your arms are thrust forward and backward in rhythmic motion .
19 I would suppose it was shortly after four o'clock that I left the guest house and ventured out into the streets of Salisbury .
20 He was unhappy there but , determined not to slip back into the pits where his grandfather had wielded a pick , worked hard and won scholarships both to Jesus College , Oxford , and the University College of Aberystwyth .
21 Then she wandered out into the grounds .
22 The archaeologists camped uncomfortably inside them for a while , then moved out into the townships that had mushroomed around the site .
23 ‘ What in the devil 's name is that ? ’ he demanded , following her as she crossed quickly to the gate and moved out into the grounds .
24 And the time is long past when the question of who deserves what was taken out of the hands of politicians and time-serving bureaucrats and given to a genuinely independent and truly meritorious body which might set about trying to put honour back into the honours system .
25 The Morning Advertiser of 24 September reported on an in-depth survey that it had carried out into the effects of the guest beer provision .
26 A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties .
27 But that was n't enough , she reminded herself sharply , watching the male curlew as it waded out into the shallows , searching for food beneath the surface of the loch .
28 Our beamy Bénéteau made a lot of noise as she slammed down into the troughs before climbing the next steep wave .
29 Winter cereals are slow to establish , and must be sown earlier : this is apparently because there is a tendency for stubble or killed turf to be pushed down into the slits with the seed where it can create anaerobic conditions leading to the formation of toxic substances such as acetic acid .
30 Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country .
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