Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] into the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 2 | This thought came into Charles 's already overcrowded mind , and he found himself looking off into the wings , whence the fatal shot had come . |
| 3 | He stood up and picked up the candle and went wandering off into the shadows with it . |
| 4 | They we were half riding , half pushing up into the mountains . |
| 5 | He seemed agitated , restlessly pacing about , looking out into the crowds , then drawing back into the shelter of the arcade . |
| 6 | With this intention firmly planted in her mind , she headed for the back stairs leading down into the kitchens . |
| 7 | It has a flight of steps leading down into the depths , and its main feature is a high waterfall that emerges from behind a wedged boulder known as Mohammed 's Coffin . |
| 8 | Sometimes I 'd watch their kites going down into the fields overhead , down until they dwindled away out of sight , long before they reached the tops of the trees You ca n't do that often , though , because of all the smog . |
| 9 | The headlights of the Fiat swept from one side of the narrow winding road to the other , picking out an area of ploughed field , a thicket of scrub oaks with last year 's brown leaves still clinging to the branches , an ancient wooden cart fitted with modern lorry tyres , an abandoned barn covered with posters for a dance band called ‘ The Lads of the Adriatic ’ , a dirt track leading off into the hills . |
| 10 | There must be something in this : when morning came , amid some laughter , my husband re-enacted the closing chapter of the old year by going up into the rafters and suspending himself through the hole so that I could take photographs . |
| 11 | Lots of chemists have made very good chartered accountants , for example , but I would like to see very many more — let's say science trained people going out into the professions , particularly into politics . |
| 12 | He turned her slowly , getting used to her again , then dug in his heels , spurring her out of the courtyard and north , heading out into the hills . |
| 13 | ‘ If it stops , ’ Julie added quietly , gazing up into the heavens . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's the Pennine Way , ’ said Tumbleweed , pointing up into the hills . |
| 15 | ‘ We shall be rolling up our sleeves and getting out into the communities . |
| 16 | First I pulled the great ladder away from the tower , sending it crashing back into the trees . |
| 17 | Then he allowed the body to drop to the floor , watching it twitch for a second before stepping back into the shadows from which he 'd emerged . |
| 18 | There he halted , staring down into the flames , but his stillness had a taut , barely restrained quality that kept her heart beating much too fast , and though he seemed totally absorbed in the glowing fire Isabel sensed he was aware of her every movement . |
| 19 | The basic solution is first to restrict the flow of water percolating down into the aquifers by planting trees , preferably native species , on the higher ground . |
| 20 | They are tunnelling down into the sewers and up into the cavity walls and suspended ceilings . |
| 21 | He stood upright on the driver 's seat , staring up into the clouds . |
| 22 | Li Yuan lay on his back in the huge bed , staring up into the shadows ; the woman beside him was sleeping , her leg against his own , warm and strangely comforting . |
| 23 | He went on , coming out into the labs . |
| 24 | In a few seconds , two fell dead , one was running back into the trees , and four were inside the stockade . |
| 25 | It seemed he was deliberately galloping very close past her to upset her chestnut mare , who kept taking off into the pampas . |
| 26 | They were straying back into the realms of evidence , and that would be a matter for the court when the Proof was heard . |
| 27 | At its meeting on 30 October 1990 , the board received a report from Ian Wells , a senior enforcement officer , on the progress of an investigation he was carrying on into the affairs and business of the Winchester Group , an appointed representative of Norwich Union . |
| 28 | Floating down into the depths , she heard the kitchen door into the back garden close the very moment she switched on the hall light . |
| 29 | Rose with three men ambushed a couple of trucks one evening , killing 12 men before melting back into the shadows of the scrub . |
| 30 | This road takes you through what I would say was the most savage landscape you are likely to see in the Pyrenees without actually setting off into the mountains on foot , a valley which has rocks where other valleys have trees . |