Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] into [art] [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 | Steps in the south-east corner of the Central Court led down into a well which was used , at least in the temple 's final days , for offerings : there were many small clay vases , one of which still had olives in it when excavated . |
| 8 | Then we came to a smashed yellow stone façade and a doorway that led down into a cellar . |
| 9 | Would he , seventeen years afterwards , be able to rediscover the mouth of the hole that led down into the Goughdale Mine ? |
| 10 | A short ladder pitch from one of the ventilation shafts led down into the level . |
| 11 | A twisting road led down into the bushes , and the Doctor set off down it . |
| 12 | We tumbled down into the hole like so many Alices and gazed in wonder around us . |
| 13 | We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Both arms plunged down into the water , but she was able to steady herself by pressing her hands on the stony bed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Friar plunged down into the ravine and toiled up the other side . |
| 18 | It found an eddy where the outpouring of a supply conduit splashed steadily , and it swung , steadied , and then moved on into the gloom . |
| 19 | He went by the window , without a glance , and moved on into the night . |
| 20 | Eighteen months later he moved on into the marketing and sales department , where he was responsible for liaising between Harwell and the EEC . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A heron scraiked below the steep slabs of stone that chuted down into the sea . |
| 24 | He sank down into a chair opposite Hari . |
| 25 | Emily sank down into a chair and studied the pages closely , controlling the urge to slap the insolent hussy 's pretty face . |
| 26 | She sank down into a chair and watched as Craig knelt before the fire , building it back into a glowing warmth . |
| 27 | When the carriage was out of sight , she sank down into a chair and put her hands over her face . |
| 28 | She went into the drawing-room and sank down into a chair . |
| 29 | Leith sank down into a chair the moment the outer door had closed behind him and discovered that she was trembling . |
| 30 | Merrill went over to the wide settee and sank down into the feather cushions . |