Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We signed another form , paid another , smaller deposit , and checked right into a motel in Santa Barbara for a long rest . |
| 2 | The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan . |
| 3 | Tendrils from the two black shapes reached out to entwine with each other , pulling their cores closer together until , as Ace watched in amazement , they melded together into a single muscular column of flesh crowned with thorns . |
| 4 | She went into the empty staff-room and helping herself to a cup of coffee , she sank wearily into a chair . |
| 5 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 6 | There was worse to come just minutes later , when striker , Dave Mitchell , who 'd already been booked , charged carelessly into a tackle . |
| 7 | He swivelled the board round , moved effortlessly into a wave and stood up , cutting diagonally across the break and finishing with a headstand . |
| 8 | His father 's laugh changed quickly into a prolonged cough . |
| 9 | He opened a door and I staggered gratefully into a sweet bovine warmth where a few shaggy little bullocks stood hock deep in straw . |
| 10 | Finally they helped me upstairs to a bedroom , and I sank gratefully into a warm , dry bed . |
| 11 | Athelstan needed no second bidding and sank gratefully into a chair , accepting the meat pastry , mince tart and cup of cold wine that Lady Maude pushed before him . |
| 12 | I 've been playing a Les Paul plugged straight into a Boogie Dual Rectifier , and this great ‘ 63 Telecaster I bought in Boston which might or might not be Ronnie Earl 's old guitar . |
| 13 | A LORRY veered off a road and crashed straight into a bathroom where 19-year-old sales assistant Joanna Betts had just stepped out of the shower . |
| 14 | They both refused and Manningham poured-himself a large Scotch as Paula sank carefully into a vast armchair which enclosed her . |
| 15 | Mrs Frizzell stopped half-way into a bone-coloured skirt — bone had been last year 's fashionable colour , according to the Tollemarche Advent . |
| 16 | He fell on his feet , coiled hard into a ball , and used all the weight of his body and the power of his long legs to project him forward again after the enemy who recoiled from his reaching arms . |
| 17 | He turned , expecting to see the child sitting up , his face transformed again into a snarl , but the boy slept on . |
| 18 | She unearthed an ancient bicycle from some forgotten shed corner and proceeded to ride it from cottage to cottage , her sackful of letters stuffed compactly into a basket in the front . |
| 19 | Looking round for Blackberry , he saw that he had left them and was up at the top of the pool , where the narrow beach tailed away into a gravel spit . |
| 20 | With two drama/percussionists and a saxophonist — composer Steve Blake — the Victims of Death band creates a relentless musical background that sends the dancers rushing across the stage in the opening section of Precious , an endless succession of attract/repel contacts , with walks , runs and jumps , not dance steps per se , but crafted seamlessly into a totally interactive structure . |
| 21 | Costumed in an elegant silk blouse , Corocraft jewellery , and bouffant and bewinged steel-grey wig , I sailed forth into a studio full of camera crew , agency men and sundry traders who basically sat there blinking expectantly in my direction . |
| 22 | When a policewoman got out of the vehicle he rammed it and drove straight into a wall which was demolished . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , we sailed straight into a terrible storm , which drove us many miles eastward . |
| 24 | He closed his legs and she came smoothly into a nice even gallop . |
| 25 | Charles dropped immediately into a deep sleep where lumbering Thurber cartoon figures with guns in their hands chased him through a landscape of pastel green , dotted with red flowers . |
| 26 | The wave spiralled forwards into a flawless but bone-crushing tube . |
| 27 | The door from the terrace led directly into a long , somewhat overfurnished salon , cool and dim after the heat and brightness outside , its deep window-sills shaded by closed shutters and crowded with knick-knacks . |
| 28 | After a couple of miles he turned right into a network of lanes . |
| 29 | As she passed through the lights she turned right into a small service road which ran alongside a few small shops . |
| 30 | Gradually the downward thrust of his naked loins became more urgent and uncontrolled , and in a final moment of spasm , his features spread and widened suddenly into a flattened mask . |