Example sentences of "[adv prt] into the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest . |
| 2 | Slowly , Aenarion was drawn down into the daemon 's innards . |
| 3 | Dr Martin O'Reilly stared down into the child 's face and sighed . |
| 4 | She came to it and stood and looked down into the dragon 's mouth . |
| 5 | From his discovery things had followed an inexorable path , like the water 's tight spiral down into the whirlpool 's mouth . |
| 6 | He made no move to escape the deadly embrace and laughed down into the girl 's upturned face . |
| 7 | Could it be , I mused , as I snuggled down into the Dodge 's heavily bolstered bucket seat on the autostrada running north of Milan to Switzerland , that Detroit has finally built a competent , European-style sporting saloon ? |
| 8 | Drawn slowly down into the cloud 's white , |
| 9 | He had talked with two colleagues about the possibility of fusion occurring when water is drawn down into the Earth 's mantle at boundaries between tectonic plates . |
| 10 | Rachaela walked through into the doctor 's room , which was quite large , with netted windows over a garden . |
| 11 | He hauled himself after her and Fenella gasped and half fell , half pulled herself over into the Robemaker 's wood-store , to be followed , a minute later , by a rather out-of-breath Caspar . |
| 12 | Of course , the mascara-heavy crowd do n't all appreciate being insulted , and during ‘ America Dream ’ a pint sails over into the singer 's face . |
| 13 | Of course , the mascara-heavy crowd do n't all appreciate being insulted , and during ‘ America Dream ’ a pint sails over into the singer 's face . |
| 14 | SO BBC1 's Trainer finally galloped off into the knacker 's yard , leaving nothing but the memory of bad acting and even worse scripts in its wake . |
| 15 | Once through , the tanks would press on into the enemy 's main body , preparing the way for the armoured infantry to clear any remaining opposition . |
| 16 | In our case , of course , it is a mature , open and enquiring critical mind that leads us to read on into the churls ' tales of " harlotrie " , not a degrading taste for such material and a lack of interest in : We might see the combination of the intrinsically low status of the Miller and the consequently low expectations of what he will produce with the sophistication of his narrative performance as simply an entertaining absurdity , or perhaps a burlesque , like Chauntecleer 's discursive pomp and display in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale . |
| 17 | After I 'd checked to make sure that the back of the van was locked , I jumped up into the driver 's seat and rammed the key into the ignition . |
| 18 | Miguel waited while she climbed up into the driver 's seat and wrapped on the seat belt . |
| 19 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
| 20 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
| 21 | The Daughter wriggled , trying to get a knee up into the Sandrat 's stomach . |
| 22 | Reflector boards shone light up into the subjects ' faces to refine the modelling ( reflections give a certain hooded look to the eyes in the portrait here ) . |
| 23 | Others designed the sculpture for a specific viewpoint , which can sometimes be reconstructed by looking up into the figure 's eyes . |
| 24 | Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face . |
| 25 | His grin wide , he slapped Jack on the back and peered six inches up into the bridegroom 's handsome red face . |
| 26 | If a predator is nosing close to them and they have not yet rolled tightly into a ball , they may bend and then suddenly straighten their legs , thrusting their spiny backs up into the killer 's sensitive nose . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry ! ’ she gasped , as she righted herself and looked up into the victim 's face . |
| 28 | Having said that , each and every Rottweiler who is taken out into the public 's glare is an ambassador for the breed and we must do the best we can . |
| 29 | The chitin-rich liquid is then absorbed through the still permeable new skeleton back into the insect 's body . |
| 30 | Under Aelfwald the kingship passed back into the archbishop 's own family — the descendants of Leodwald ( see Appendix , Fig. 9 ) , to whom Aethelberht , as a kinsman of Ecgberht , will have been related . |