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

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1 There had been the long drift through cold spring into hot summer ; the long sinking into the mercies and bossiness of her friends and thence into the arms of the medical profession ; the final humiliation of accepting , because she was too inert to refuse , money from Rachel .
2 Masha had , in fact , learned the terrible lesson as the despicable pogroms developed into a policy of national hatred and persecution , later to be transformed into actual genocide and thence into the horrors of the Holocaust .
3 The belly was covered in long piercing spikes , and I was going to fall on them any minute , and thousands of spikes would plunge into me — puncture me , penetrate my flesh — and out would pour my life 's blood , red and sticky , all down my body and down the elephant 's body and streakily into the waters of the pond .
4 And , strangely , the pain receded , replaced by the absolute intimacy and physical trust between them as the honeymoon took them deeper and deeper into the waters of sexual love .
5 As a child Rose of Lima had watched a different version of the ‘ penetration of the universe ’ , as the silver mines were sunk deeper and deeper into the mountains , at high risk , in search of treasure .
6 Although the outskirts of the forest were carpeted with pine-needles , Kāli led me higher and deeper into the trees .
7 There are far too many people looking into the minds of the Teddy cosh-boys and not into the minds of the old ladies who have been coshed .
8 Evidently there were nesting holes in the sheer face below them , for as the light grew they saw three or four martins dart out over the stream and away into the fields beyond .
9 Being part of the secondary market , however , carries a substantial risk of being pushed back into unemployment , and possibly into the ranks of the underclass .
10 The allegations that have been made by the hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) go further and further into the realms of fantasy .
11 The only feature of the city shared by rich and poor alike was the atmosphere , and as time went on the manufacturers stopped living next to their mills , as Robert Thornton does , and retreated further and further into the suburbs .
12 People who had driven him further and further into the woods that slope down from the Common towards the mam road to the south-west .
13 When Endill was n't building the catapult or doing his schoolwork , he explored further and further into the corridors .
14 As you gradually get more and more into the thoughts you suddenly shout ‘ STOP ! ’ very loudly and clap your hands loudly simultaneously .
15 Even this kind of intervention in the productive process could not long survive him : the means of musical production were taken more and more into the hands of large commercial interests , while parody as a method retreated into informal niches in the fabric of working-class life .
16 But can policy change be translated quite so well and quickly into the schools ?
17 They took him outside and up into the mountains .
18 We managed to flee across the river and up into the hills .
19 All over the south and south-west of England and up into the midlands and the borders of Wales we may encounter ancient hill forts on hill tops or upper slopes , still marked by the visible line of prehistoric ditches .
20 No problems here : Catherine Cookson 's The House of Women ( Corgi ) is her first of two this year ; Clive Cussler is back with his improbable Dirk Pitt in Sahara ( Grafton ) ; and Alexander Ripley 's Scarlett ( Pan ) comes into A format and straight into the Giants section : all are great .
21 She ran around the corner and straight into the arms of John Delaney , screaming before she could stop herself .
22 In the ninth minute McClean broke free down the left and his cross into the penalty area was completely missed by Coleman but made its way to Abrahams who was forced wide and straight into the arms of Westwood .
23 Home at last through the terminal building and straight into the arms of their loved ones .
24 As the other four offered their own inimitable advice , the police hustled the Celtic defender downstairs and out into the streets where he was thrown over the bonnet of a police car .
25 ‘ Managers were proud to lead their staff into dispute and out into the streets over the years ; unfortunately , very many of them became the pit bull terriers of 1992 ’ .
26 In the little time that remained , plans for Germany were made , and no doubt farewell visits took the three friends by now-familiar routes to the beach at Kilve , to Holford Combe and Hodder 's Combe , and far into the hills .
27 There are infrared-sensing security lights on the wall of the house and if they go on then the whole thing 's off ; I 'm up and over the wall and back into the woods and away .
28 The most notable thing about the Rough Wooing is not that in the end the savagery of the English attack drove the Scots away from the new idea of friendship with England and back into the arms of their natural and ancient allies , the French .
29 Less than five minutes later FAB 3 slid gracefully and uneventfully into the waters of the River Arun at Littlehampton .
30 Two more , with Adam , had been across the river in the villages beneath the Long Mountain , in Leighton and Forden overlooking the river , and even into the hamlets that lay inland , in the high valley of the brook beyond .
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