Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roofs of houses drained into the internal courts , the water being collected in a cistern beneath . |
| 2 | Ludens , steadying Marcus 's head with one hand , his fingers plunged into the short hair , and slowly and firmly moving the very sharp instrument , felt like an acolyte performing a dangerous task , perhaps intended as a test . |
| 3 | In sudden abandon she allowed her arms to creep up round his neck , her fingers to sink into the short hair at the back of his head while at the same time parting her lips and welcoming the exciting exploration of his tongue . |
| 4 | Her fingers clenched into the soft material of her flame-coloured dress , crushing the delicate fabric . |
| 5 | Once three night birds rose into the blue-black of the sky . |
| 6 | The explanation might be that a probable leak at the tight junction is relative , allowing only small molecules to pass into the intercellular space . |
| 7 | Sharpe looked down the high street , half expecting to see French Dragoons galloping into the small village , but it was only the Prince of Orange who had abandoned his carriage and taken a horse from one of his escort . |
| 8 | For parameter values , and r increasing from 1 , numerical simulations of the Lorenz equations show the following behaviour : ( 1 ) For 1 { r { 13.926 , all numerically computed trajectories spiral into the stable stationary points C+ . |
| 9 | Her eyes drilled into the innocent carpet . |
| 10 | During the night a couple of German shells crashed into the far end of the orchard near the road . |
| 11 | The platoon commanders shout their commands and the recruits manoeuvre into the required formations . |
| 12 | You 'll have to wait until 1993 to see German , French and Italian shops crowding into the high street . |
| 13 | A Lancashire miner 's daughter , whose grandmother ‘ was very sprightly , very clean … very like prigmeat , you know , everything in its place ’ , remembers how one of her brothers moved into the next-door house when he married , and ‘ they helped with them when they were older . ’ |
| 14 | Other forms of words instilled into the young are also present . |
| 15 | Semi-conscious , he slid slowly down , his feet and legs sinking into the freezing slush at the bottom . |
| 16 | Alain flung himself into a chair , his lips twisted into the old sardonic smile . |
| 17 | I was relatively successful and after three or four months moved into the Criminal Investigation Department , as a detective constable , pursuing local villains for the thefts , shopbreakings , burglaries , and petty frauds which were our bread and butter . |
| 18 | Squatters , escapees and network junkies moved into the abandoned hulks . |
| 19 | She took a step nearer , and her ears moved into the forward position . |
| 20 | PEOPLE in the West are talking about traps built into the proposed DDR travel liberalisation law . |
| 21 | This protected what Lord Bridge called the safeguards built into the judicial review procedure which protected from ‘ harassment ’ public authorities on whom Parliament imposed a duty . |
| 22 | Parliament is to be taken to have intended that the difficulties such a wide ambit may create will be sufficiently overcome by two safeguards built into the statutory scheme . |
| 23 | Perhaps because of disincentives built into the Supplementary Benefit system , the ‘ zero-earner couple ’ category is bigger than one would expect if the wives of unemployed men had the same economic activity rates as the wives of employed men ( see Rimmer , 1987 , p. 44 for a discussion of this phenomenon ) . |
| 24 | For example , once a list goes beyond the optimal number , it must be un-linked , and the words built into the standard 26-way node method , with new items added in linked lists hanging from these new nodes , until they in turn reach the optimal value , and so on . |
| 25 | Six goals rattled into the United net — a disaster , a nightmare , |
| 26 | Men in civilian clothes moved up and down the steps leading into the narrow three-storey building . |
| 27 | He slung his jacket over his shoulder and , anointing his fingertips in the breast pocket of his shirt , ascended the two shallow steps leading into the main part of the house . |
| 28 | It might have been better at Vladimir for Holly than for the zeks herded into the communal cell blocks , but he had learned to eat what food was provided . |
| 29 | All through her life , even at moments when her difficulties seemed overwhelming , Constance would remember her father 's words declaimed into the vast skies of Northumberland : ‘ Never be afraid , Constance . |
| 30 | He let the words sink into the shocked man sitting on the edge of his bed in Washington . |