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

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1 Among certain groups living in southern Africa the labia can be as long as seven inches and the owners of such equipment have to push the lips back into the vaginal opening in order to get on with their daily tasks .
2 The Metropolitan Line grew fast in the 1860S and 1870S , the District Line joined it and it spread its branches out into the open countryside to the north-west of London .
3 That is , they translate words back into the same modality of bodily experience from which those who spoke the words derived them from within their own bodies .
4 Not bothering to put the designs back into the black plastic cylinder , Paul stuffed them under his arm .
5 The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church .
6 Out in the gulf a tommahawk missile drills up into the ink-black sky fired from the U S battle ship Wisconsin .
7 Mayne 's plan was to take his fighting patrols out into the Great Sand Sea and establish a forward base , from which they could sally out and harass the enemy .
8 Then skim off the fat , pour the juices back into the roasting tin and bubble them up .
9 When a melt of any kind is cooled rapidly , it does not have time to sort its atoms out into the ordered atomic structures of mineral crystals .
10 In its enclosed valley basin the fume and grime from the cheap coal of its suburban collieries with iron works , brass foundries and glass works was already driving the wealthier merchants up into the healthy heights of Clifton by the 1720s .
11 Odour is perceived when air carrying the odorous material travels through the nostrils , along the air passages up into the olfactory cleft where the odour receptors are situated .
12 Lissa had brought things out into the open , but it was too late now for regrets .
13 Sweat broke out on his face and ran in little rivulets down into the blue stubble .
14 More dramatically , every day , about two million gallons of radioactively contaminated water are discharged through two pipelines out into the Irish Sea .
15 They include the products of the spread of the reptiles back into the aqueous environment from which their distant ancestors emerged , and , for the first time in the history of the vertebrates , the conquest of the air .
16 It lasted 26 years before John Bays , who is still competition secretary , allowed the professionals back into the Senior Cup , and the bowl which they had competed for became the prize for a new competition , the Essex Senior Trophy .
17 She slid her hands from his cheekbones back into the thick waves of his dark , silken hair .
18 Hence , sociological analyses of race relations , crime and the treatment of offenders , poverty and the like have helped to bring ‘ hot ’ issues out into the open and to clarify understanding of these areas .
19 He claimed that their plans to dump the roubles back into the Soviet money supply had been forestalled , a matter of hours before it was due to begin , only by his quick decision to order the immediate withdrawal of the high-denomination rouble notes .
20 ‘ This lady has described how they were quite deliberately trying to entice her two young children out into the public passageway area , ’ he said .
21 Robyn sank her hands back into the soapy water again .
22 The leadership of the NECC is well aware of the contradictions in urging children back into the overcrowded classrooms of a system still based on apartheid principles .
23 He was interested in how far Siward had taken his men back into the untouched part of the forest , where the clearing kept for the highway from Dunedin to the Forth crossing had encouraged the fire to turn to one side , helped by the slight change of wind .
24 To his right ran the main road from the Cotswold hills down into the sleepy little market town of Lulling , which Thrush Green adjoined .
25 Simply press the reset button twice and the machine boots up into the diagnostic routine .
26 They suggest that warnings by Mr Major that a vote for the Liberal Democrats could let Labour into Downing Street by the ‘ back door ’ may have frightened some waverers back into the Tory fold .
27 She pushed the papers back into the large Crockford and looked round the room , realising there ought to be a servants ' stair to the first floor continuing the one running from the ground floor to the basement .
28 By a supreme effort I managed to feed a few inches back into the vaginal opening but as soon as I relaxed it popped quietly out again .
29 The writer-self tunnels back into the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart , into the lumber room , dark and sometimes frightening , where memory dwells .
30 Mary 's death and Elizabeth 's accession brought the Protestant extremists out into the open again , and the new breach with Rome was to prove permanent .
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