Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] into the " in BNC.

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1 Quacking and complaining , the ducks hopped back into the water and swam away .
2 Pickets charged straight into the police riot shields .
3 New York Giants moved back into the play-off picture by beating Washington Redskins 24–7 .
4 When English merchants moved out into the world beyond Europe , it was natural enough that the Spice Islands became their ultimate objective .
5 A dim lamp swung over the entrance where three steps led up into the foyer .
6 THERE was more bad news for Fergie yesterday when the firm filming her Budgie The Helicopter books crashed deeper into the red .
7 His lips foraged deep into the cute valley between her moons , as she spread her legs to enjoy his long tongue exploring her lush carpet of soft fern .
8 With an almighty tug-of-war heave , with my back almost horizontal and shoulders pressed hard into the cross-bar , I crossed the first patch of sand .
9 Iago watched that fight to its end , and saw the survivors haled away into the forest and silence .
10 They were all sitting , legs stuck out into the path , backs against the cliff , munching on sandwiches and swigging from plastic cups .
11 The waves smashed spectacularly into the rocky coastline , creating instant waterfalls of white spume draining from the rocks before becoming drowned and engulfed by further successive waves .
12 Some of them , like Sir Robert Birley , the headmaster of Eton and a member of the Fleming Committee , disliked the social selectiveness of the schools and the dependence of admission upon the ability to pay fees , and hoped to see the schools brought fully into the mainstream of national life .
13 Fierce Eyes went out into the storm and returned with the grandmother 's grizzled skull , the hair frozen into spikes which he broke off and cast on to the fire , where they sizzled , cooled , then flared .
14 The words fell harshly into the silence and Emily looked at her cousin in disbelief .
15 The two brothers went back into the Guild Office , and Ebenezer began to gasp and splutter , telling his story as best he could : what Florrie had said to him about Tom 's letter and what Tom had threatened to do … .
16 It was healthy too ; the two great arms of piers reached out into the sea and were a regular walking spot for anyone in need of a breath of air or some exercise .
17 Blake 's work for MI6 included not only gathering intelligence from the Russians but tracking down and watching Communist spies sent over into the West .
18 She opened her mouth to call to her father , but the words blew away into the night .
19 It was not until the 1870s that in British science grams and centimetres replaced ounces , troy or avoirdupois , and cubic inches ; while in engineering the old units lasted well into the twentieth century .
20 He looked down on the pretty garden and saw the two of them snoring there , their front claws tucked neatly under their chins which rested on silk cushions and their tails dipped tidily into the pond whose waters did not stir enough to move their dreams to wildness .
21 Cardiff turned away from the rain-streaked window as the policemen on cordon-duty lifted the wooden pole and the last of the cars slid away into the night .
22 It was all over in bloody , yelling minutes , and the Scots swept on into the encampment itself .
23 IPS is a system which sees integrated weights engineered directly into the frame at the 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock positions .
24 Such conflicts spilled over into the immediate postwar phase .
25 Videos of the revolution are screened on to a side wall of the Architecture School and the sounds of the 1989 crowds blasted out into the icy night .
26 Consider the sentences in ( 10 ) with their sequences of verbs followed by adverbs or adverb phrases : ( 10 ) Farjeon clumsily undressed the refugees gazed hungrily into the window the ship was drifting almost imperceptibly to leeward In the last of these three cases nobody would understand the ship itself to be " almost imperceptible " ; in the second sentence , on the other hand , it is the refugees who are hungry ; gazes , whatever they may imply to a sensitive observer , do not experience hunger .
27 In Sutton , the wires came out into the High Street and ran a short distance to the right to run round a small green at Bushey Road .
28 The visitors came back into the game with two penalty goals by Graves and could have turned ends 9–9 had he been successful with his third penalty goal on half-time .
29 These matters spilled over into the British Psychological Society and eventually in 1951–52 led to a major row on the benefits of psychoanalysis , which meant that the relationship between scientific developments and educational practice became further confused .
30 Agitated shopkeepers rushed out into the street when they saw the marchers approaching and tried to rescue their wares .
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