Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite a different situation when a grandchild came into the grandparent 's home through the death or desertion of one or both parents . |
| 2 | The cottage has three downstairs rooms , including a kitchen built into the hillside . |
| 3 | A stick flew into the air . |
| 4 | I tried to make him as comfortable as possible and with the assistance of a French Commando placed a shell dressing into the large wound in his back . |
| 5 | ‘ The crew had quite a struggle to get into the cabin . |
| 6 | To go into the ‘ night ’ betokens a willingness to go into the unknown . |
| 7 | Our attention had been drawn initially by a hose snaking into the water and some bubbles rising from the depths . |
| 8 | The steam engine to turn the winding drum , located in a wooden engine-house behind the conduit and constructed above a boiler-house rebated into the earthwork supporting the upper part of the planes , was a twin-cylinder high pressure jet condensing type . |
| 9 | Entry is from Adele Street opposite Motherwell Civic Centre , to North Lodge Avenue from which a lane leads into the reserve area itself . |
| 10 | A layman venturing into the quantum world no doubt expects to encounter some fairly strange phenomena . |
| 11 | And I have seen them at the mid-day rest hour of twelve to one , I have seen a ploughman come into the stable , shake up the straw in the stall of his leading beast and lie down there and sleep . |
| 12 | The position of the contact is determined by a microprocessor built into the tablet which scans the top film in one direction while scanning the lower resistive film in the other . |
| 13 | He looked like a figure gazing into the mouth of hell , and she shook her head to rid herself of the image . |
| 14 | When the light went out , Rain had the suspicion they were not alone on the stairs , that someone was watching them , perhaps they actually passed close to a figure pressed into the shadows . |
| 15 | Preceded by a cloud of vaporised breath , a figure shuffled into the light spilling from the Hall . |
| 16 | A figure jumped into the doorway , and jumped back into the darkness as a beam from Defries 's blaster burst against one of the doors . |
| 17 | A weeping standard achieves a different form by having not a bush type but a rambler budded into the top of the stem , from where the long flexible rambler stems hang and drape down like a floral curtain . |
| 18 | Lace made on a knitting machine can be whatever you want it to be ; it can be filmy and fine for evening wear , lightweight in fine wool for a layer of warmth or used as a break inserted into the stocking stitch of a warm , chunky sweater . |
| 19 | In reality , the guardians of authority collude in the maintenance of the territory once it has been colonized , and as a result enter into the social framework on the terraces . |
| 20 | Mansell was slow to start … and Williams team mate Ricardo Patrase got a flyer sneaking into the first bend ahead of the field . |
| 21 | His eloquence was somewhat impaired by the presence on the bed of the current mistress , the Roman Catholic Duchess of Portsmouth , but eventually he succeeded in having her removed and in persuading the King to send for the Queen to seek her forgiveness for the wrongs he had done her ; the King however kept putting off the administration of the Holy Sacrament , and Ken was removed from the room in Charles 's last hours as he was received into the Roman Catholic Church by a priest smuggled into the palace by his brother and successor , James II . |
| 22 | The ceremony ends with a shotgun blasted into the boughs to wake up the sleeping tree.Does it work … apparently yes.It 's now thought that making such a rumpus around the trees scares off harmful insects … so wassailing really does make the orchards healthier . |
| 23 | In any case , a shotgun fired into the undertaker 's neck at close range would have made a real mess ; we would n't be looking at just a cupful of blood . |
| 24 | A car skidded into the hedge to avoid it ; another lorry managed to stop at the end of four long streaks of scorched rubber on the wet road . |
| 25 | ‘ I just saw a car run into the back of another car and a lorry ended up going sideways ’ , Sacco went on . |
| 26 | A short time later , a car pulled into the underground drive-through that had been set aside for taxis and pick-ups at the mainline rail terminus . |
| 27 | In the uncomfortable silence that followed , while the others were trying to think of something tactful to say , the sound of a car pulling into the courtyard sounded unnaturally loud . |
| 28 | Then suddenly she heard a car sweep into the yard , and , getting up from her desk , she felt her heart leap uncomfortably once more as she saw Robert getting out of his Land Rover . |
| 29 | Three people had a lucky escape from injury when a car crashed into the front of a house . |
| 30 | Like the Edwardians , the Mods assumed what had been an exclusively and outrageously homosexual style and used it as a key to cross into the ‘ private ’ space of the body and of self-discovery ; unlike their forebears , they were far more intimately involved with black culture , from the new black music of the Tamla and Sue labels , to the ‘ bluebeat ’ clubs that were opening , as an index of Britain 's more visible black community . |