Example sentences of "and [verb] into the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She could n't risk slipping on the wet surface of the stones and pitching into the river .
2 When chipping and pitching into the wind , the ball will settle down more quickly and the stroke must be quite positive , with a quite noticeable acceleration through impact .
3 The left-hander just avoided a caught-and-bowled to Malcolm 's left hand , but when Gooch brought Salisbury on , this time at the Nursery end , and pitching into the legside rough , he spun one right across Salim Malik to have him caught at gully .
4 We had talked our way past the immigration officials in Jakarta , flown to Makassar , and checked into the rotting , former colonial splendour of the only hotel on the waterfront .
5 BIODEGRADABLE MATERIAL We can now make plastics which can break down and disappear into the soil .
6 At the end of the session , June Braithwaite said she had found it useful ; she had not needed to become hysterical , and he had not been able to leave and disappear into the kitchen .
7 They both soon scattered when a mortar bomb burst at the entrance to the orchard , sending shrapnel whistling through the trees and thudding into the walls of the little cottage just a few yards away .
8 Hauser hunched his large body in his chair and gazed into the distance .
9 While Joseph tearfully attended his father 's grave , and gazed into the reflections of Wallowa Lake , McLaughlin reported that the Nez Perce 's return there would be impractical .
10 Henry brushed and spat into the basin , noticing the blood darken the snow-white saliva .
11 She ran frantically back , splashing through the scummy water , stumbling , not caring how much noise she made , and plunged into the darkness of the right-hand tunnel , feeling her way along the walls .
12 He and another man abandoned the caravan and plunged into the 15ft River Ouse in Selby , Yorks , when they spotted police chasing them .
13 Despite his sleepless night , de Castelnau at once went on to the Right Bank and plunged into the work of re-animating the defence .
14 Returning even faster to get his average over 300 m.p.h. , Campbell 's fears were confirmed : at this speed the bow lifted , and the boat somersaulted and plunged into the lake .
15 A snorting and savage beast , it promptly ate all Mother Leeds other children and plunged into the New Jersey forest , from whence it emerged regularly to tear clothes hanging out to dry , and trample vegetable gardens .
16 Jay stripped her clothes off and plunged into the sea , still smiling !
17 Had the plane been recalled on account of bad weather and plunged into the sea ?
18 Gaby was in an eight-girl crew taking part in a raft race near Southsea , Hampshire , when she lost her balance and plunged into the sea .
19 Thunder flashes , Roman candles and other pyrotechnics would enliven its passage until , a spinning hoop of flame , it launched itself over the cliff , described a brief trajectory and plunged into the sea , never to be seen again .
20 In bright sunshine and intense heat the Dutch Guards , ten abreast , led by their massed drums , deployed out of a narrow valley between the hills and plunged into the river , to wade across , sometimes up to their necks in water , under heavy fire , emerging with ardour undimmed , to storm the enemy breastworks .
21 Delighted by Amaranth 's success , Charles Harvey ran down two flights of stairs and plunged into the press room behind the platform .
22 After her abortive attempt to break into journalism , she had gone down to the beach , flung off her dress , and plunged into the water at Backyards .
23 The driver of the 10pm LMS passenger and mail train seemingly overran a home signal at danger and plunged into the rear of the 9.15pm Oxley sidings to Bristol GWR fitted goods before finally colliding with another freight , the 4.45 Westerleigh to Gloucester empties , that was passing on the opposite line .
24 ‘ Plucky little tyke , ’ Richard took his arm and limped into the corridor .
25 As he ran he grabbed a torch , and Tallis watched its flame bob and weave into the darkness , soon lost among the trees .
26 The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake .
27 Distempering houses , and stepping into the breach when somebody 's cook has lumbago , and exercising people 's dogs .
28 This first requires the code to be downloaded from the computer out to a dedicated programming unit and transferred into an EPROM or EEPROM , which is then removed and placed into the module under test .
29 I tried to put what I knew and surmised into the context of other sports .
30 In this way he has lived in Nazi Germany or sat beside a small girl in Vietnam who gazes into the distance with a fixed stare and cries into the silence with a monotonous , elemental shriek .
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