Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The little dark patch sank deeper into the surrounding darkness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Angel One sank deeper into the luxurious heat of the steaming water . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Gradually the ILP and the Communist Party drew together into the United Front . |
| 8 | Never quite stationary , the mag-lev decanted her on a windy platform and whined away into the cavernous tunnel . |
| 9 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 10 | So these people moved away into the Pennine valleys . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As they rose upwards into the damp air the site spread out before them on either side . |
| 14 | Blue smoke wreathed upwards into the dark sky . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Bodrum peninsula is extremely rugged , with numerous day stops and lots of good overnight anchorages cleft deep into the mountainous coastline . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The skins on the door were pulled violently open and the face of First-hog-of-summer peered anxiously into the firelit gloom . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He diversified too into the booming package holiday and travel business and by 1989 was the UK 's biggest tour operator . |
| 21 | One Sunday evening in 1942 he wandered aimlessly into the old Memorial Church . |
| 22 | Given by Bill Fair who , while serving with the H. M. Forces , on 21st June 1942 wandered aimlessly into the old church and there entered into a deep , rich and satisfying experience . |
| 23 | A ten foot wide brown slick oozed continually into the blue grey waters , in which no fish can survive , and no person would dare to swim . |
| 24 | Reaching her car at last , she drove away into the silent night , gazing through a gauze of tears over the snow-covered mountains ahead . |
| 25 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 26 | We found in earlier descents that if power was left on the aircraft quickly accelerated well into the yellow arc and could quite easily reach its Vne . |
| 27 | The gas-fire ran out of money and dropped abruptly into the five little blue blisters ; then it died altogether . |
| 28 | ‘ But I came late into the first-class game , I 'm 28 now and I really want to be in the big time before I end my career . ’ |
| 29 | Hugh drove neatly into the straw-covered shelter as though he were coming to rest in a multi-storey car park ; then he switched off the engine and opened his door . |
| 30 | He subsequently came briefly into the national spotlight when , fighting Bexley for Labour in the 1966 General Election , he gained only 2,333 votes fewer than Conservative leader Edward Heath in a 54,826 poll . |