Example sentences of "and [verb] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He breathed a huge sigh and gazed into the dark water . |
| 2 | The landlord turned and spat into the dirty rushes . |
| 3 | Instinctively they had again swung left and plunged into the familiar shelter of the woods . |
| 4 | He sprinted along the bank and plunged into the freezing chest-deep water as the 15-month-old boy floated quickly away , face down . |
| 5 | Branches cracked from trees and plunged into the turbulent waters behind Tallis , who clutched her cloak and cowl , holding them tightly against the tearing wind . |
| 6 | He did not have time to check his mirrors for police cars as he passed All Hallows-on-the-Wall and plunged into the long straight canyon of London Wall . |
| 7 | With a swiftness prompted by desperation she weaved a path through the crowds of guests and plunged into the relative quiet of the old house . |
| 8 | The lorry smashed through a brick wall and plunged into the fast-flowing canal , landing on its side . |
| 9 | With a choked little cry he jumped backwards , turned and plunged into the unseen , gripping the banister and screwing his eyes tightly closed as he ran . |
| 10 | She went through the house door leading into the garage , seized a rake and plunged into the cold wind . |
| 11 | Dulles precipitated the crisis by peremptorily withdrawing US financial aid for the Aswan Dam , thereby opening the door to the flow of Eastern Bloc arms and influence into the Middle East — the very situation that he had feared British colonial obduracy would create . |
| 12 | Nipple to shoulder-blade standing room only is available as you slither and squeeze into the orange glow of the poodle room for some meditative madness from the Zumo Men . |
| 13 | The structure can be stabilised by a triangulation that is most economic when symmetrical and evolves into the familiar forms of roof trusses , bridges , arches and vaulting . |
| 14 | It is approached along a forty-mile-long fiord and the approach instructions are that the pilot should turn left at the entrance by the sunken freighter that sticks up in the fiord , or else run out of airspace and crash into the sheer mountains that rise to seven thousand feet at the end of it . |
| 15 | For reasons to be explained , the original legislation was found to be defective , and was amended in 1976 ( and placed into the legislative context of the Public Order Act 1936 ) , but even after amendment it still gave rise to complaints that it fell short of the aspirations of its promoters in its effects . |
| 16 | She turned and lunged into the crumbling bank with the torch until it lodged and held still , focused upon the motionless bulk below . |
| 17 | Boli — Boom Boom to Marseille fans — was recently banned for four games after a fearsome tackle on Monaco 's Jurgen Klinsmann and goes into the European Cup tie talking more like a boxer than a footballer . |
| 18 | We sang All things bright and beautiful as loud as we could and tucked into the tea-table contributions of aunts , cousins and friends with rare gusto . |
| 19 | I explored the town and rode into the surrounding countryside , often towards Kondoro , the flat-topped Mountain of Refuge . |
| 20 | Fortunately for Joseph , Jerome misread the situation and rode into the Indian camp , where he himself was seized . |
| 21 | We made our landfall just south of Stornoway and crept into the land-locked anchorage of Loch Beag , an offshoot of Loch Grimshader , to clean up the ship . |
| 22 | Some more people came out of the house and got into the other car , and both cars drove away . |
| 23 | Alone in her bedroom , she undressed and got into the big empty bed . |
| 24 | Going too fast would result in his jumping over the pool and crashing into the far end . |
| 25 | At the sight of a temple or mountain , the mind is stirred and it is as if the soul has left the mundane and flown into the intangible . |
| 26 | The National Health Service and Community Care Act ( 1990 ) offers the possibility , but by no means the certainty , that assessment practice will be improved and developed into the comprehensive needs- and risk-led approach which , I have argued , is essential to improving the quality of life of older people . |
| 27 | We were sitting under the canopy of a tree that overhung a two-storey building and dissolved into the inky heavens . |
| 28 | Once again , he left the pupils to superintend the luncheon and departed into the small parlour to hear their story . |
| 29 | The third constraint is observed by controlling the design process at sub-assembly stage , echoing the relevant design data into component part technical sub-files and the geometric size and spacing into the relevant spatial files . |
| 30 | She pushed open the door and moved into the strange world of sparkling glass and soft carpets . |