Example sentences of "or [vb base] into a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crane , despite his activity , remained behind making occasional sorties off the road to look behind some tree or peer into a thicket . |
| 2 | This means that the rider can help his horse should he peck on landing or hesitate into a fence . |
| 3 | I know what you 're going to say , if you did look up you 'd probably step in a pile of dog turds or walk into a lamp-post , but I 'm serious . |
| 4 | They either brew up tea on a little gas stove beside their car , or pop into a coffee house for a bun and a flick through The Observer Book of Birds . |
| 5 | The associative initiatives I have mentioned often produce only small and short-lived changes in feminist psychology , or turn into a recapitulation of one side of an old polarity . |
| 6 | David would always be seen in public , would always have to do interviews , do a video or go into a recording studio — so I think the whole time was taken up by feeling involved in the whole Ziggy period or Ziggy way of thinking . |
| 7 | Mum was given a choice : either to stay in the caravan they were living in and not have me home , or move into a flat so I could live with them . |
| 8 | These vowel changes are brought about by rules — not the sort of rules that one might teach to language learners , but more like the instructions that one might build into a machine or write into a computer program . |
| 9 | Fault scarps will only be formed where a fault breaks the surface ; they can either die out laterally or merge into a monocline ( Fig. 3.33(A) ) . |