Example sentences of "and [v-ing] into a " in BNC.
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1 | Rowed by a team of friends she was soon alongside , aboard and tucking into a substantial breakfast . |
2 | Maggie glared at him but he bent again and locked the Porsche , pocketing the key and shrugging into a thick leather jacket . |
3 | The fully-laden truck careered through traffic lights at a crossroads in St Austell , Cornwall , crushed her Vauxhall car and pushed it 100 feet , before virtually demolishing a butchery and crashing into a florist 's shop . |
4 | A month later he struck in a suburb of Milton Keynes — loosing control of a Ford Granada and crashing into a fence and a parked car . |
5 | He imagined this woman draped on Humphrey Bogart 's arm and walking into a seedy bar . |
6 | brings the concepts farming and spelling into a related context . |
7 | She would lie for hours — days even , for she had lost all interest in time — in an abstraction of pain , her bruised mind slipping and struggling and relapsing into a slough . |
8 | She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley . |
9 | Water in the garden has a peculiar fascination which is shared by young and old alike , whether it be tumbling over rocks and splashing into a pool alive with the red and yellows of goldfish , or in some sheltered nook supporting the broad verdant pads and brightly coloured waxy blossoms of the waterlilies . |
10 | I could see that she was scowling and stiffening into a Mark 2 temper , so I gave her an encouraging smile — which raised her , as I expected , to a Mark 3 . |
11 | There was a long pause from my point of view , while the lights began flickering in the office and the train exceedingly slowly reversed , before stopping again and going into a sudden jerk . |
12 | Other animals avoid the difficulties of winter by reducing their metabolic rate even further and going into a state of torpor or hibernating . |
13 | That 's the argument of headmasters in the county who staged a unique demonstration by forsaking their classrooms and filing into a meeting of the county 's spending chiefs . |
14 | I just kept seeing her , in her pigtails and her funny long uniform coat , flying across the road and slamming into a car . |
15 | All these constituents needed fusing and moulding into a unity in his mind . |
16 | ‘ My lady , ’ said Hugh , catching her eye and breaking into a resigned grin , ‘ my lady , as usual , is making fun of both of us . ’ |
17 | Music is n't for keeping and treasuring , it 's for cutting up and feeding into a computer . |
18 | They rode almost due north , making for Birdsall Brow and facing into a gusty northwesterly breeze . |
19 | From these beginnings the actuarial profession has provided the answers to a succession of problems , laying the foundations of the modern life assurance and pension industries and spreading into a variety of other areas — the basic link being the theory of probability . |
20 | FIRST NIGHT Planning the huge Billy Graham Crusades of the sixties and seventies meant starting from scratch and moving into a city or country six to eighteen months ahead . |
21 | FILM legend John Wayne 's hard-up widow is selling her luxury mansion and moving into a caravan . |
22 | The country is coming out of this difficult recession and moving into a more stable situation . |
23 | Then one day I found myself sitting in a packed car and we were away and moving into a new house in a place called Tintagel . |
24 | ‘ Yes , it does take up most of my time — that and moving into a new house . ’ |
25 | The action of the film was eclipsed by some of motor racing enthusiast McQueen 's off-screen dramas , setting his Savoy Hotel room alight while trying to prepare himself a hamburger , driving at speed into the hotel 's small forecourt and screeching into a U-turn — by hitting a large puddle on the way and drenching other guests — and overturning his car while racing , against the film studio 's orders , resulting in a cut lip , which mean rescheduling some scenes . |
26 | Tarento — derives from the word ‘ talent ’ but you do n't need any to be a tarento — if anything , it would be something of a handicap in their profession , which is smirking and tittering into a microphone in TV game shows . |
27 | Pillar or ‘ short climbing roses ' By and large , training and tying into a single pillar or post is only suitable for shorter growing climbers that do not grow long enough to clothe larger areas like walls and pergolas . |
28 | In the end , I could only escape by galloping off , leaving him in full flow , and diving into a shop . |
29 | The cost of acquiring the building could be up to £2.5m and converting into a 3,000seater arena , hosting judo , volleyball and handball , could cost the same again . |
30 | Go through a gate and continue up a track before reaching another two gates and descending into a wood . |