Example sentences of "[verb] and [v-ing] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The windows were thrown open and people began howling and screaming into the night as the drink mingled in our stomachs and the music got louder . |
| 2 | The rest of the journey she went silent , smoking and staring into the distance until Marler pulled up in front of the HQ of World Security in Threadneedle Street . |
| 3 | A hideously powerful blow on one of the boards sent it splintered and whirling into the basement . |
| 4 | The valley is famous for the awe inspiring Trummelbach Falls , a total of seven waterfalls tumbling and plunging into the mountain . |
| 5 | Since the 16th century people have been puzzling and researching into the origins of names . |
| 6 | The cause is always one of the following : failing to recognise the loss of power in time ; over-reacting and flying into the ground ; opening the airbrakes instead of landing ahead with no airbrake . |
| 7 | The noise was a foul but apt accompaniment to the schooner 's fitful motion for , with her wheel lashed and her sails only half trimmed , Wavebreaker was bridling and jerking into the short hard seas that were driving through the North-East Providence Channel . |
| 8 | General practice is thus being forced kicking and screaming into the computer age . |
| 9 | I still shudder at the memory of the only previous production I 've seen , which attempted to drag this 18th-century masterpiece kicking and screaming into the 20th century with the help of rap and reggae music and rewritten dialogue that sounded like a rejected Minder script . |
| 10 | And she got hold of me in her arms and carried me kicking and screaming into the school . |
| 11 | It would , if implemented , " have dragged British government kicking and screaming into the 1950s " and limited the role of public management to the " programmed implementation of predetermined policies " ( Metcalfe and Richards 1987a ) . |
| 12 | When chipping and pitching into the wind , the ball will settle down more quickly and the stroke must be quite positive , with a quite noticeable acceleration through impact . |
| 13 | Following the path with my thoughts wallowing in nostalgia , I soon found myself back where I started and crashing into the people I had heard through the mist . |
| 14 | At the far end of the beach a dozen kids were running and splashing into the blue water without a care in the world . |
| 15 | He kicked out at it viciously and it rolled , screeching and spitting into the roadway . |
| 16 | We are worried at the emotional impact on the children if bodies are coming and going into the church to be washed . |
| 17 | The chances are you wo n't sleep much though , because Monday is the big market day in Cavaillon and soon after midnight the carts and lorries and vans of the big fruit farmers ' co-operatives , of the market gardeners , of the tomato and garlic and onion growers , will start rattling and roaring and rumbling into the great open market in the place du Clos . |
| 18 | fading and darkening into the waters . |
| 19 | Pay good attention and show that you are listening by nodding and looking into the other person 's eyes , but not staring . |
| 20 | She believed what she had said and yet those last words had a curious prophetic ring — as if somewhere in those uncharted seas which man calls Time , they were echoing and re-echoing into the future . |
| 21 | There was no reply , Mait simply standing and staring into the mirrored lens . |
| 22 | An oil drum was kicked away , rolling and crashing into the wall beside her . |
| 23 | He sat smoking his cigarettes and reading the evening paper for the half-hour it took to accomplish these combined exercises , before leaving and getting into the tube at Bond Street . |
| 24 | Then he lay there gasping and looking into the unreadable eyes of Isay . |
| 25 | Then they were gone , a body of bodies , sweating , spitting and barking into the distance . |
| 26 | Almost dark now , and the bombers would be taking off from Fenton Bishop , heaving and thrashing into the air , into the same sun that had reddened Loch Ardneavie . |