Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Straight , clean-cut stone walls and a steady slabbed roof led on into the hill . |
| 2 | The blade plunged on into the heather at the side of the track . |
| 3 | I waved to him and passed on into the lecture room . ’ |
| 4 | He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray . |
| 5 | She got down into the hall . |
| 6 | Some geezer got down into the tunnels and found his way out . ’ |
| 7 | Would he , seventeen years afterwards , be able to rediscover the mouth of the hole that led down into the Goughdale Mine ? |
| 8 | A short ladder pitch from one of the ventilation shafts led down into the level . |
| 9 | A twisting road led down into the bushes , and the Doctor set off down it . |
| 10 | We tumbled down into the hole like so many Alices and gazed in wonder around us . |
| 11 | We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door . |
| 12 | Plants closed , men were sacked , industrial decay and unemployment spread like a leprous blight across the whole of the region and insidiously crept down into the Midlands . |
| 13 | Both arms plunged down into the water , but she was able to steady herself by pressing her hands on the stony bed . |
| 14 | They plunged down into the forest with a great clattering of hooves and jingling of harness , and the acrid smell of horse-dung lingered about the village for days afterwards . |
| 15 | The Friar plunged down into the ravine and toiled up the other side . |
| 16 | It found an eddy where the outpouring of a supply conduit splashed steadily , and it swung , steadied , and then moved on into the gloom . |
| 17 | He went by the window , without a glance , and moved on into the night . |
| 18 | Eighteen months later he moved on into the marketing and sales department , where he was responsible for liaising between Harwell and the EEC . |
| 19 | The Sergeant was driving , and the windscreen wipers were waving crescents of slush away from the glass as they headed on into the teeth of the storm . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher , who returned from the United States last night , said : ‘ Everything we have done in the last 13 years will be conserved and built on into the future . |
| 21 | A heron scraiked below the steep slabs of stone that chuted down into the sea . |
| 22 | Merrill went over to the wide settee and sank down into the feather cushions . |
| 23 | She ran the bath , loading it with bubble-bath , and sank down into the water . |
| 24 | Slowly , very slowly , the malice sank down into the tissue of the face . |
| 25 | He immediately sank down into the mud . |
| 26 | Fiver sank down into the grass . |
| 27 | Dyson peered down into the darkness after it , driving the car steadily out across the white line in the middle of the road . |
| 28 | She peered down into the water but was aware only of her own reflection and that of the branches of the beech trees . |
| 29 | The man looked at Clinton indifferently and peered down into the vat . |
| 30 | Lifting it , she peered down into the blackness below , feeling the first rung of a rickety ladder as she dangled her foot into the yawning gap . |