Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [v-ing] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to see if he was amused , or just squinting into the glare . |
| 2 | Much of the new material is detector-found … perhaps from a declared hoard , or maybe coming into the museum as a solitary find . |
| 3 | But doing the whole thing — removing daytime clothes , putting on special sleeping garments , emptying the bladder , cleaning the teeth and finally getting into the purpose-built sleeping furniture — is something that is only done in the bedrooms specially built for the purpose . |
| 4 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 5 | It was difficult to believe that the boxes had been removed , then replaced and even more difficult to credit that a match from either of the chained boxes had been struck , then carried lit and precariously flickering into the Little Vestry and used to burn the diary . |
| 6 | So it 's going to be more and more moving into the real area as opposed to our fantasies about what the world 's like at this particular moment . |
| 7 | Leaving the museum and instantly stepping into the twentieth century again is a strange experience . |
| 8 | Gleefully two of his companions linked arms and cavorted around Owen , drawing their guns with their free hands and wildly shooting into the air . |
| 9 | One committed suicide by repeatedly smashing its rostrum against the concrete wall of the harbour , and then swimming into the net which held it captive . |
| 10 | That is er saving a range from the prompt file , using extract , and then going into the other file and doing a file combine in that extracted file . |
| 11 | At the foot of her bed , the cat Hastings rose , turned around and around , pushing his paw gently into the eiderdown , and then curling into the soft silk hollow . |
| 12 | The meadow began to mushroom with tents and huts and the street theatre erupted into an explosion of living history , the performers flinging themselves to the ground and then leaping into the air as and when the idea occurred and making funny faces all the while . |
| 13 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 14 | Smooth the marzipan over the cake , including the underside and neatly going into the empty cut . |