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

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1 IRELAND 'S bowlers bounced right back into contention in the Men 's U-25 Home International Championships in Carlisle yesterday when they shrugged off an opening match defeat from England to beat Scotland and stay in contention for the title .
2 Of course that was just stage one , when we moved gently up into position at the Valve .
3 It sighed and sank once more into immobility .
4 She stopped at noon for some bread and cheese , and a glass of wine diluted with water , then plunged doggedly back into housework .
5 Then up here in my studio , without a word being spoken , everything came back plainly into view , as it was meant to be .
6 It dropped back down into cover , a roding woodcock .
7 It wheeled silently over our heads , circled again , clapped its wings , and dropped back down into silver birches to resume its mechanical sonorous crooning , ‘ Krrrrrrrrrr-oo , krrrrrrrrrr-oo ’ .
8 The daylight faded almost imperceptibly into night , electricity taking over the sun 's job smoothly .
9 I walked slowly back into Dent for a pot of tea and a slice of buttered spiced loaf at Stone Close Cafe .
10 My oil lamp — and the curtains pulled down and all my glasses smashed and my clothes torn in shreds and — ’ She broke down again into incoherence .
11 Science and technology all too often seemed to overtake the wildest fantasies of Utopian thinkers , plagues of infectious diseases were conquered , people flew not only into air but out into space and landed on the moon ; instant communications brought a " global village " and so on , yet all this progress of science and technology did not bring Utopia .
12 Joe settled back happily into family life , enjoying the warmth of his welcome .
13 IT WAS supposedly a new instalment for a new golf season of the United States v Europe rivalry that the Ryder Cup brought so sharply into focus .
14 Yeah she just went out yesterday into pharmacy he says right er she told him what she 'd got he says right , he give her some Benolin stuff
15 Three , and Johnson 's knock-out punch — Pennant 's descriptions went as far into detail as Pennant wanted them to , and therefore they should be seen for what they are , not what they might have been : ‘ Here is a man six feet high and you are angry because he is not seven . ’
16 Fifteen minutes later Belinda fell equally neatly into bed in her lilac cotton and lace nightgown .
17 When Raymond of Toulouse , Robert II of Flanders , Robert Curthose , Stephen of Blois , and Hugh of Vermandois responded to the call , past and present members of their military households fell almost automatically into rank behind them , to test themselves against terrible dangers , but also to enjoy the companionship in arms , the adventure , the deeds of daring which were the stuff of the chansons de geste .
18 You fitted more snugly into society , especially , the tight little society around the Consul-General , if you were married and could take your wife along to dinner-parties with you , instead of forever having to be fixed up with a stray aunt or somebody .
19 Company 's such as Campeau , which plunged too deeply into debt when it bought Bloomingdale 's , will no longer be able to count on the US taxpayer to bail them out .
20 She roamed back thoughtfully into childhood memories , hunting for the little clues her mother and grandmother had let fall about him , and the sum of them all was remarkably meagre .
21 So I run into bathroom picking me sweatshirt up as I 'm running in got , had me hands and face washed out again into bedroom , got me trousers and me other jumper on and me pan knickers , I said I 'm ready .
22 He pulled at the starting device , a coil of plastic-covered wire that snapped obediently back into position after each attempt to engage the engine .
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