Example sentences of "[adv prt] into a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he was in the enemy 's trench and staring down into a young German 's eyes , a terrified boy even younger than himself . |
| 2 | As he reached it , the ground fell away from under him and he rolled down into a deep ditch . |
| 3 | As she held the cup of tea to her mouth , she felt herself tumble down into a deep well . |
| 4 | And the little goblin followed Yanek up the mountain until they reached a high , lonely place where a waterfall ran down into a deep pool . |
| 5 | They drive down into a dry watercourse and are surrounded by hundreds of cattle returning from their grazing , driven by children and young warriors . |
| 6 | There will be other forms of contingency strategy , where home care spending — perhaps up to one-third of the overall allocation — is deliberately held back until the residential and nursing home spend settles down into a recognisable pattern . |
| 7 | Having completed the very demanding annual Personal Weapons Test , each section member was required to run up a plank of wood to a window-frame , shoot at a target on the other side of the window , and then throw himself six feet down into a simulated building interior . |
| 8 | He ran from end to end of the yard and paused as he came back to the edge of the fire to peer down into a shattered mirror . |
| 9 | A pair of grey-backed crows — hooded crows — flew across the track , and then , as the Land-Rover topped the rise and started down into a narrowing glen , a buzzard soared up in leisurely circles , to be lost over the crest of the moor . |
| 10 | The wooden stairs led down into a narrow corridor illuminated by a single naked bulb dangling at the end of a piece of frayed flex . |
| 11 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 12 | It can involve redrawing the work to show a different scale of projection , or breaking it down into a general drawing or a series of drawings . |
| 13 | Within the broad categories of usage above , the applications broke down into a wide range of tasks . |
| 14 | He used to bring these tubs down into a long turnout . |
| 15 | I fingered a few and then picked out a shiny foil bag that folded neatly down into a tiny pack . |
| 16 | Two wyverns fell on the same night and after the Emperor 's death the aerial attacks gradually subsided and the siege settled down into a protracted stalemate . |
| 17 | We slipped down into a small crater . |
| 18 | At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight . |
| 19 | Through fences and barb-wire , over the top of a rocky hill , and down into a hidden valley . |
| 20 | There are high ceilings , tall windows , moulded cornices and a splendid original staircase with a mahogany handrail sweeping down into a carved lion 's head . |
| 21 | Along one of its sides the swastika meander breaks down into a confused key pattern . |
| 22 | Benny was shoved down into a leather-covered chair in an office carved from the living rock . |
| 23 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 24 | I had naively imagined that marriage would magically obliterate the origins of the wealth we shared , melting Dennis 's laboriously acquired treasures down into a common heap of anonymous gold . |
| 25 | put the song down into a physical form , as described above , and send it to yourself by REGISTERED POST . |
| 26 | The sun spangled on the water as it went down into a red wrack of clouds . |
| 27 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 28 | They left the deserted house , the old manservant locking the door behind them , and went down into a deserted Cheapside . |
| 29 | The south side of the cut dips down into a beautiful hollow of vines , all but the lowest locations being ideally situated . |
| 30 | The initial alarm that had swept over her in the apartment had now settled down into a tight knot of almost sick apprehension , which lay like heavy lead deep in her stomach . |