Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] into [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Slowly , inch by inch , the three men advanced the half mile across no-man's-land , towards the Allied front line , pressing their faces back down into the mud whenever the moon reappeared from behind its unreliable screen .
2 But when she had washed her hair and dressed in a new pair of designer jeans and a silk shirt that had been a Christmas present and which she 'd never worn before — it was n't to Eva 's house that she went but back down into the town , towards the theatre and the Franz Joseph .
3 From this vantage you peer down into the crater lake , its surface green with the fresh growth of ‘ totora ’ , a reed otherwise known only in the Andes .
4 From his discovery things had followed an inexorable path , like the water 's tight spiral down into the whirlpool 's mouth .
5 Hanging vines drip down into the canyon which resounds with the sounds of frogs and birds and the sweet smell of Madonna lilies .
6 My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again .
7 The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards .
8 Head up into the wind with most of the weight placed on the back foot and a low crouched position .
9 Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face .
10 I open the throttle a bit and head out into the sound , where the tide flows strongly and it is a favoured feeding place for auks .
11 If you have any choice in the matter , try to do this on the south-facing side , and as the bud will grow out to the south , rows should lie east-west , so that the shoots grow out into the row space , and not into each other .
12 Then , as one , they slink back into the darkness , seeking privacy and safety in the womb of the undercut .
13 And the time is long past when the question of who deserves what was taken out of the hands of politicians and time-serving bureaucrats and given to a genuinely independent and truly meritorious body which might set about trying to put honour back into the honours system .
14 I take a deep breath and head back into the eye of the storm , careening down side-streets when police barricades and fire hoses block the main avenues .
15 Descend and head back into the forest going south-west then south to post 21 .
16 On an instrument descent while under approach control , the Falcon let down into the side of a mountain , killing all three occupants .
17 Two children climb down into the hole ( having first borrowed a rope ladder ! ) and try to talk to the creature .
18 The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles .
19 As informational flows become less structured , so the water-tight internal divisions of institutions break down into a plethora of working parties and task groups with constantly shifting personnel .
20 Flood tolerant species of willow and alder on the reservoir margins carry the tree cover down into the water .
21 Walk through into the courtyard to find remains of the late 16C designs of the Labours of Hercules .
22 Return to the castle and its second courtyard , then walk through into the final and greatest courtyard , past the limestone blocks of the Romanesque White Tower .
23 The surface of the earth is finite in extent but it does n't have a boundary or edge : if you sail off into the sunset , you do n't fall off the edge or run into a singularity .
24 Where they do not exist it can be presumed that either the genuine silver-gilt coronet was used at the funeral and then put back into the strongroom after the funeral , or they have disintegrated .
25 The dormice are weighed and then put back into the nest .
26 The digested sludge is dried in open pits and then put back into the pigs ' feed in a proportion of one part to 10 .
27 What we have is nine thousand pounds put back into the employment development fund still leaving a cut .
28 NO DRAUGHT COWL Prevent downdraught from blowing smoke back into the room with the new Eurocowl .
29 When they spot some promising zebras , or antelopes , they spread out into a line .
30 Here I feel awake and ready , compelled to be on my feet when the sun reaches us , and the cattle , fretful and peckish , are released in a torrent of bay and brown and white , their huge horns gradually unlocking and separating as they spread out into the plain .
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