Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | J. S. Raworth , who was a director of both , invented a system of regenerative control , by which a car descending a steep hill , could use its motors as brakes and generate current which passed back into the overhead wires to be used by other cars ascending . |
| 2 | The Rifleman brushed aside their questions , going instead to the main staircase which led down into the brightly lit chaos of the entrance hall where a throng of officers demanded their horses or carriages . |
| 3 | Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat , which dropped heavily into the water . |
| 4 | Around it grew the Villa Sancti Galli , a settlement of craftsmen and small farmers which developed steadily into the St Gallen of trade and commercial importance . |
| 5 | National Express , which stormed back into the black in line with its own forecasts at the time of flotation in December , added a penny to 192p . |
| 6 | Golf and fishing are the national sports of Scotland , for both male and female , and I remember Mother , who was also a moderate golfer , fishing on a river adjacent to a golf-course , avoiding the balls flying past her head , many of which flew straight into the river . |
| 7 | Charles 's cavalry rallied to hold off the 500 enemy horse which broke through into the rear of his lines and formed a protective corridor down which he , and those of his men still able to fight , slowly withdrew , fiercely resisting . |
| 8 | Instead Barnes gambled with a huge , floating cut-out pass across the New Zealand '22 , which fell neatly into the pickpocket '22 , which fell neatly into the pick-pocket hands of Timo Tagaloa who raced 80 metres for the try . |
| 9 | Instead Barnes gambled with a huge , floating cut-out pass across the New Zealand '22 , which fell neatly into the pickpocket '22 , which fell neatly into the pick-pocket hands of Timo Tagaloa who raced 80 metres for the try . |
| 10 | With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village . |
| 11 | Though personal taste tends toward late nineteenth- and twentieth-century European art , his gifts many of which went directly into the galleries have ranged from Egyptian and Roman antiquities and Tiffany glass , to Ming armchairs , an eighteenth-century Italian chest , and a Native American painted elk hide . |
| 12 | He opened a door on the range and was rewarded by a cough of brilliant flame which gusted briefly into the room . |
| 13 | As such , Hitler had become in a way the projection of national aspirations to greatness which reached back into the imperial ambitions of the Wilhelmine era , and which in added strength under Nazism had found an echo among much of the German population , not least as a compensation for a far greyer reality . |
| 14 | Towering above the numerous box-shaped buildings were three unsightly cooling towers , each belching out plumes of thick , grey smoke which drifted up into the low , threatening rain clouds overhead . |
| 15 | He knows the answer very well : the instance that he has mentioned was a matter for the Ministry of Defence , which looked further into the matter and decided not to pursue it . |
| 16 | Ahead a ragged coastline stretched away to a long , low headland which jutted out into the sea , its level surface broken by the jagged stumps of two mine stacks . |
| 17 | As they made their way slowly home in the late afternoon , Laura sighed with contentment as she viewed the peaceful farm fields between the towns and villages , which stretched hazily into the distance and embodied the stillness of an old and continuing way of life . |
| 18 | Until at last I saw him shooting off ahead of me in the form of a long lumpy thread , vibrating with moisture , which stretched ectoplasmically into the maw of the shuttling frame . |
| 19 | To begin with , there was the accumulated pre-war experience , which stretched back into the nineteenth century , of labour being the cheap factor of production — an attitude reflected in the slow development of cost-accounting in Britain . |
| 20 | He would make occasional forays into the United States or films , but Lynn 's only real home was in Aldwych farces as part of the Travers team which ran triumphantly into the 1930s , and he stayed with them , creating and recreating the role of the silly ass forever working his way out of impossible situations , often armed with nothing more than the famous monocle , a daft grin , and an apparently inexhaustible ability to triumph over adversity by the sheer idiocy of his own imagination . |
| 21 | The screwworm larvae , which burrowed deep into the flesh of their animal or human hosts , had been a major problem in Central and South America until the 1950s , when the technique of releasing sterilized male flies ( which would mate with females but produce no offspring ) had brought the parasite under control . |
| 22 | The cottage had one sizeable room above two others , one of which had been reclaimed from its original function as byre for the cow and converted into a scullery , with a copper and sink which drained straight into the field . |
| 23 | The greatest challenge to the continuing applicability of public service principles to broadcasting structure and content was not the arrival of TV itself , which slid comfortably into the BBC system in 1946 , where it had started 10 years earlier , but the Churchill government 's decision to introduce a second TV network in 1955 . |