Example sentences of "they [vb past] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got into a big car and drove away . |
| 2 | One produced a gun before they got into a yellow Ford Escort and drove off . |
| 3 | Finally , they passed into a carpeted corridor and then through a regular wooden door into a small office . |
| 4 | They passed into the fitful darkness of the dock cavern . |
| 5 | No solution was found : within a few years the European powers were at war again , essentially over the question whether Spain and her colonies were going to pass into the hands of a relation of the King of France or a relation of the Holy Roman Emperor ; in the end they passed into the French line of descent , and in the eighteenth century policy towards France had always to be conducted in the light of the possibility that the French and Spanish government might ally for war . |
| 6 | They cruised into a three-goal lead with goals by Keith Adamson ( 2 ) and Craig Fish , but two strikes from Steve Wheldon set up a nervous finish . |
| 7 | Kabbalists and Sufis were often moved by the ideas of the Jewish and Muslim rationalists , which they translated into a mystical mode . |
| 8 | Instantly they plunged into a vertical nose-dive so abrupt that the bucket flew from her grasp and dropped like a stone . |
| 9 | They moved into a second floor flat , so Dawn now had to run her own home and travel to work each day . |
| 10 | They moved into the first , pitch black canyon , faintly lit by a Poacher 's Moon , their passage marked by the persistent bleeping of the detector . |
| 11 | Donna , too , felt the hairs on the back of her neck rise as they moved into the right-hand gallery . |
| 12 | They moved into the next room and sat down to dinner . |
| 13 | ‘ Take that fork , ’ Ruth directed and they bumped into the private road flanked by an orderly regiment of cypresses that led to the Casa . |
| 14 | As soon as the lights were in their favour they turned left , and after a short distance he cut the engine and they drew into a wooden landing-stage . |
| 15 | They charged into the other dressing rooms , gabbling as they started a quick change for another number . |
| 16 | As the trilobites spread through the seas of the world , they diversified into a great number of species . |
| 17 | They wandered into an elegant little classical temple , with a statue of Hygeia — somewhat marred with birdlime — in the middle . |
| 18 | A gulp from the coffee thermos , however , brought the first faint warmth to his bones as they paddled into a thickening mist . |
| 19 | They drove into the High Street , then turned into Bridge Road , which crossed the North Hey . |
| 20 | They drove into an underground vehicle park where Leila and Cable went off to check them in with security and pay the initial tariff . |
| 21 | He pulled open the door , and they came into a tiny attic , with several large piles of typescript , and several files , neatly set out on the table . |
| 22 | After what seemed an age , they came into a small room where the roof beams straddled above them like great barren trees , and the wind whistled through the tiny cracks where the moonlight shone through . |
| 23 | The high walls of the Castelo de Sao Jorge lifted above them as they worked their way through a maze of narrow alleys and then , as they came into a small square in front of a church , Devlin emerged from an alley and crossed the cobbles before them towards a cafe . |
| 24 | As they came into the straight … headed up the Cheltenham hill it was a two horse race … |
| 25 | They came into the upper room . |
| 26 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 27 | It may be ‘ accidental that there is no Beaverbrook or Rothermere ’ but it is more likely that they would encounter an enormous backlash if they trespassed into the formal world of politics . |
| 28 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 29 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 30 | In front of a 65,000 crowd , they dropped into an American football game and they got some reception . |