Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mounted knights struggled across two abreast , and plunged immediately into a marsh . |
| 2 | To Grasmere , then , they had come in their own kind of innocence and plunged straight into a storm . |
| 3 | We signed another form , paid another , smaller deposit , and checked right into a motel in Santa Barbara for a long rest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When a policewoman got out of the vehicle he rammed it and drove straight into a wall which was demolished . |
| 8 | Proud as a Masai tribeswoman , I glided back to where my car was n't and turned instantly into a small , twisted , carrot-topped fishwife . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All except one , who had worked herself up into such a frenzy of excitement , that she became quite terrified and galloped straight into a fence — which fortunately was made of pine rails that collapsed harmlessly under the assault . |
| 11 | Under Allen 's guidance she climbed on to an oak that grew by the ford , clambered along a branch , and swung easily into a chestnut . |
| 12 | He skirted a small lake and walked straight into a patch of quicksand He was up to his shins before he realised what had happened . |
| 13 | A convicted robber has come out of prison on parole … and walked straight into a job as a professional actor . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , on the Continent , the modern movement was on its way to creating houses that abandoned period styles and traditional materials and forged ahead into a scientific age . |
| 15 | The affected fish should be double-bagged ( with oxygen if possible , failing which , blow up the air-space with an airpump ) , and packed securely into a polystyrene box for what will , hopefully , be a short journey . |
| 16 | One walked straight towards me , lurching , with his head tilted , as if in a dream , and fell straight into a deep crater . |
| 17 | With that stupid feeling of relief you get when you 're home , I pushed open the door , tripped over what felt like a set of billiard balls and fell headlong into a carefully arranged selection of this week 's vegetables . |
| 18 | The guard turned away from the car and spoke softly into a two-way radio . |
| 19 | The assistant would write the bill , get it countersigned , take the money and put both into a small wooden cup which was then put into a socket on the overhead line . |
| 20 | By now , other men with microphones were moving among the audience , and so many people were shouting to be heard that George could no longer identify individual speakers as words overleaped one another and blended together into a great cry of confused and frightened protest . |
| 21 | On one occasion , we took fright at a cement mixer and ran backwards into a passing bus on a particularly busy road . |
| 22 | He thought for a second about the Brigadier 's last biased pronouncement , found himself immediately incensed , and launched impetuously into a passionate rebuttal . |
| 23 | A heron rose from the river and flapped away into a clump of tall trees in the distance . |
| 24 | Rennet is added too , which makes the milk clot and set firmly into a junket . |
| 25 | 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 . |