Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan . |
| 2 | Tendrils from the two black shapes reached out to entwine with each other , pulling their cores closer together until , as Ace watched in amazement , they melded together into a single muscular column of flesh crowned with thorns . |
| 3 | Even Shirley Christian 's relatively cosy interview with North for the New York Times on December 1st — an interview that gained in suspiciousness and oddity because it was the last North gave for two years — plunged suddenly into an action-man world . |
| 4 | Shadows drifted past him like fronds , dappled with refracted sunlight , tied with thin streams of bubbles as he sank slowly into the welcoming depths of the ocean , under the incurious eye of the great Whale … . |
| 5 | We have held the hands of our gallant fighters and prayed with them and for them as their life 's blood seeped slowly into the dark damp earth of the jungle . |
| 6 | The little dark patch sank deeper into the surrounding darkness . |
| 7 | But then Posi gave the ’ imminent entry ’ warning , and we sank deeper into the enfolding embrace of our pouch-seats as the ship tipped over an unseen edge and began to fall all the way down the planet . |
| 8 | Angel One sank deeper into the luxurious heat of the steaming water . |
| 9 | They prodded the snowy tussocks and peered doubtfully into the gloomy holes under the hedge , while the flakes continued to fall in a soft , crackly silence . |
| 10 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 11 | Gradually the ILP and the Communist Party drew together into the United Front . |
| 12 | Never quite stationary , the mag-lev decanted her on a windy platform and whined away into the cavernous tunnel . |
| 13 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 14 | So these people moved away into the Pennine valleys . |
| 15 | We need have no reservation that such memories , not least the sounds , entered deeply into the young boy 's consciousness , as his mother gave vent to her distress in English and her native Yiddish , as well as symbolically rending her clothes and chanting the dirges . |
| 16 | His father 's laugh changed quickly into a prolonged cough . |
| 17 | He opened a door and I staggered gratefully into a sweet bovine warmth where a few shaggy little bullocks stood hock deep in straw . |
| 18 | Finally they helped me upstairs to a bedroom , and I sank gratefully into a warm , dry bed . |
| 19 | He began as a rock climber , opening new routes on the Provencal ‘ super-cliff ’ of Ceuse , and entered enthusiastically into the athletic rigours of the new generation of sport climbers . |
| 20 | They both refused and Manningham poured-himself a large Scotch as Paula sank carefully into a vast armchair which enclosed her . |
| 21 | As they rose upwards into the damp air the site spread out before them on either side . |
| 22 | Blue smoke wreathed upwards into the dark sky . |
| 23 | Mrs Frizzell stopped half-way into a bone-coloured skirt — bone had been last year 's fashionable colour , according to the Tollemarche Advent . |
| 24 | The audience approved though , and fired by their enthusiasm , he loosened the reins and charged cheerfully into the murky world of speed , greed and what the nation reads . |
| 25 | The Bodrum peninsula is extremely rugged , with numerous day stops and lots of good overnight anchorages cleft deep into the mountainous coastline . |
| 26 | His lips foraged deep into the cute valley between her moons , as she spread her legs to enjoy his long tongue exploring her lush carpet of soft fern . |
| 27 | The skins on the door were pulled violently open and the face of First-hog-of-summer peered anxiously into the firelit gloom . |
| 28 | Hazel peered closely into the thick , coarse hair ( a rabbit 's foot has no pads ) and after a few moments saw what he had expected — the oval shank Of a snapped-off thorn sticking out through the skin . |
| 29 | He diversified too into the booming package holiday and travel business and by 1989 was the UK 's biggest tour operator . |
| 30 | One Sunday evening in 1942 he wandered aimlessly into the old Memorial Church . |