Example sentences of "drop into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pipeline from the support unit feeds the boiler , and ash drops into a modular ash pack , changed when the loco is serviced . |
| 2 | Here , Walden Beck drops into a deep stone hollow fringed with trees before it flows downdale to join Bishopdale Beck and finally the river Ure by Adam Bottoms . |
| 3 | What sort of woman , I asked myself , drops into a jeweller 's for a brooch costing thousands of francs , between buying a gigot and a gâteau St Honoré ? |
| 4 | The bag was dropped into a tank of water and swilled round occasionally like a giant tea bag . |
| 5 | Imagine that you have thrown an unsuccessful roundhouse kick to the opponent 's head , and dropped into a sideways-on position . |
| 6 | All the doors were locked and bolted so I climbed out through the kitchen window and dropped into a bed of lavender . |
| 7 | A new idea is to drop 50 two-ton blocks into a lava tunnel high up the mountain to try to clog the flow , in the way things dropped into a kitchen sink will block the drain . |
| 8 | Another method for dosing ‘ careful ’ patients is also suggested in the same chapter whereby the pellet is dissolved in 200 ( approx.8ml ) , 300 ( 12ml ) or 400 drops ( 16ml ) of a 50% brandy solution , depending on whether it is to be weaker or stronger , and one , two , three or several drops , according to the irritability of the patient , are dropped into a cup containing a tablespoon of water . |
| 9 | Then the wax and the brood combs , with all the pollen , dead bees and larvae , were dropped into a pot by the fire , and hot water poured in . |
| 10 | The standard tripod used for haymaking ( as earlier described ) is ideal for this purpose ; the middle leg is dropped into a one-foot-deep hole and the other two spread at right angles to the line of the fence . |
| 11 | Korth , for instance , showed that within 20 metres of the point of origin , pellets dropped into a small stream start to lose some of their bone , by 80 metres the pellets start to break up , and by 200 metres all the bone is lost . |
| 12 | In the days following the Frolic , life dropped into a dull routine which Jess welcomed . |
| 13 | An analogous situation is where a stone is dropped into a pond . |
| 14 | It has been dropped into a black hole for the duration of the campaign at the insistence of the spin-doctors . |
| 15 | He had dropped into a thick Geordie twang and , after laughing , he looked up and down the platform now , saying , ‘ We must be the only ones expecting a passenger . ’ |
| 16 | He found himself smiling widely as he went to obey her and for a moment he felt he had dropped into a home which was familiar to him . |
| 17 | Coins dropped into a muddy pool are likely to be lost forever . |
| 18 | The 9,000lb device was dropped into a lagoon at Fleet , Dorset , months before bombers breached the Mohne and Eder dams on the Ruhr in 1943 . |
| 19 | He crossed the road , thumped across a pasture , then dropped into a small valley where a tangle of thorns grew either side of a trickling brook . |
| 20 | Recorded delivery packets must not be dropped into a letter box . |
| 21 | He fell to thinking of the shape in the well-pit , and then dropped into a drowsy half-dream , in which El-ahrairah said that it was all a trick of his to disguise himself as Poison-tree and put the stones in the wall , to engage Strawberry 's attention while he himself was getting acquainted with Nildro-hain . |
| 22 | Here tags are attached to sections of text which is then dropped into a template or pre-defined page layout . |
| 23 | A number of things fell into place — click , click , click — with distant muffled echoes like stones dropped into a well . |
| 24 | Was dropped into a disinfected gaping hole , discreetly , behind a locked door . |
| 25 | He left the office late and dropped into a nearby wine bar to have a glass of the house Chardonnay and unwind from the day 's traumas , his thoughts drifting haphazardly from Cindy to Alexandra to Emma and back to Alexandra . |
| 26 | One instant he had been running flat out , the next he had stopped , whipped round to face them , and dropped into a defensive crouch . |
| 27 | Her sleep was black and absolute , as if she had been dropped into a bottomless pit . |
| 28 | ‘ Peter Mayle , you know the man who writes about his life in Provence , says that the best starter in the world is strips of foie gras , lightly fried in butter and dropped into a well-dressed salad . ’ |
| 29 | Sharpe urged his horse down the rutted lane that dropped into a shallow valley before climbing between two unhedged pastures . |
| 30 | One of them dropped into a formal curtsey , revealing both her cleavage and her undergarment , and he smiled grimly . |