Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where you turn right to go into the nursery |
| 2 | Nearly every farmer had a barrel of the stuff in his cow house in those days and I had only to go into the corner and turn the tap . |
| 3 | Kalin , it seems , is fortunate enough to fall into the category of a ‘ queer ’ , rather than ‘ gay ’ or ‘ homophobic ’ film-maker . |
| 4 | But I 'm sure that once she joins you in the pool she will find it easy enough to slip into the flow of things . |
| 5 | The man obviously needed to overcome his feeling of inferiority by demonstrating that he was brave enough to leap into the river , in spite of the danger . |
| 6 | The memory of this tragic story has been kept alive throughout the centuries and continues to be by the occasional appearance of The Green Lady — a ghost said to cross the road from Thorpe Hall only to disappear into the trees opposite . |
| 7 | The phone lead is long enough to reach into the living room . |
| 8 | The name was coined simply because of the physical similarities of size and shape ; a mouse is small enough to fit into the palm of the hand and usually has ‘ ears ’ and a ‘ tail ’ to complete the picture . |
| 9 | While attentive to the spirit of his reproach , it is not enough to retreat into the security of a duality — even a dialectic duality — in which difference is always already valorized against the corrosiveness of repetition ; but nor is it enough simply to reverse the poles and allow the current to run the other way . |
| 10 | A common problem when starting in stronger winds is that the board seems constantly to turn into the wind . |
| 11 | Howells said : ‘ I 'm confident I 'll be fit enough to get into the frame . |
| 12 | However good its intentions , a revenue-starved government is one with its hands tied firmly behind its back , able only to gaze into the whirlpool of poverty in which most of its country 's people flounder . |
| 13 | Inspector Montgomery asks if you would be kind enough to step into the library when you 've finished your coffee , and give him a few minutes of your time . ’ |
| 14 | He was black enough to melt into the shadows … too risky with all the fetching of beer and port . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ The players know how important our League programme is and it is a matter of whether they have recovered mentally and physically to go into the game at Leicester in the right frame of mind . |
| 16 | She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were . |
| 17 | Cos that was about , that must have been about erm er I 'd say time about , yes I should say about nineteen , nineteen thirty four and they built a pipeline out from the sewer outfall and they put two dolphins out there , and they reckon that the water , when it 's purified just to go into the river was really clean water . |
| 18 | Maxim had noticed how she had adopted certain American phrases and mannerisms as well , not because she was trying to pass as an American , but just to blend into the background . |
| 19 | The reason he wanted desperately to get into the company was that Ninette de Valois , to whom he had already spoken about his choreographic ambitions , had told him that experience of working with other choreographers and dancing their ballets was essential to learn his craft . |
| 20 | The end of the striptease is then no longer to drag into the light a hidden depth , but to signify , through the shedding of an incongruous and artificial clothing , nakedness as a natural vesture of woman , which amounts in the end to regaining a perfectly chaste state of the flesh . |
| 21 | Red-tipped fingers slid up to encircle Penry 's neck and Leonora turned away in blind haste , running downstairs to plunge into the crowd below . |
| 22 | Armstrong continued , ‘ Actually on account of the personalities involved , I think it might be better to take no action about the Palestine Committee but allow it gradually to sink into the limbo of forgotten things ’ ( emphasis added ) . |
| 23 | He went to live among the Nuer of the southern Sudan as a vulnerable outsider , relying on their goodwill and friendship to enable him gradually to merge into the background of their everyday lives . |
| 24 | Archie Moore , one of the finest light-heavyweights ever to step into the ring , was 39 years old before he finally got ( and seized ) his chance to win the world title in 1952 . |
| 25 | She looked up at him , her face so blotched and swollen that despite himself he put out a hand to comfort her , only for her to let out a frightened cry , trying frantically to burrow into the sofa to avoid any contact with him . |
| 26 | Every few minutes a fresh fusillade of whirring bombs hurtles downwards to smash into the debris below , compelling the observer to stop walking idly around and take cover . |
| 27 | Who 's there ? ’ he cried sharply , and reared his head instantly to stare into the trefoil opening . |
| 28 | Keen also to expand into the kitchen shop market , the company has recently produced a new range of ceramic tartan tiles . |
| 29 | The burglar also tried unsuccessfully to break into the house and smashed a double glazed window . |
| 30 | In recent years , there has been a desire both to move into the countryside and , for many young professional people , to move into areas fairly close to city centres . |