Example sentences of "then [verb] [adv prt] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed agitated , restlessly pacing about , looking out into the crowds , then drawing back into the shelter of the arcade . |
| 2 | They should be carefully lifted in clumps , teased apart , and then pricked out into conventional plastic trays and submerged so that the compost is about 2.5 cm ( 1 in ) beneath the surface of the water . |
| 3 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 4 | The stables are a hive of activity as the session 's mounts are groomed and tacked up , and then led out into a small ménage , in a cobbled yard at the rear of the stables . |
| 5 | I cleaned my arse quickly and pulled my trousers up , pulling the chain , too , and then waddling out into the corridor , zipping up . |
| 6 | Generally , this will be employees split male/female and then broken down into five-year age bands and the average salary for the age band calculated . |
| 7 | The unit is then broken down into several outcomes or elements to which performance criteria are attached . |
| 8 | There is the metal-ring type muzzle , which is screwed into place via a pin passed across the inside of a ferret 's mouth behind its big teeth and then threaded back into the ring . |
| 9 | I said I believed them to be following the correct route and then crept off into the mist surreptitiously to whip out my compass . |
| 10 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 11 | Back in the bedroom , she brushed her hair gently , then got back into bed , uncertain what else to do until she knew Penry was up and about . |
| 12 | Take the car down to Dover first thing on Friday morning , then head off into France . |
| 13 | If the space extends to soil at the back of the wall , so much the better , as the plant can then root through into it , and the choice widens to include any small perennial herb . |
| 14 | The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position . |
| 15 | Poor overweight Peter Horbury , the new Lord Woodleigh began to heave himself from his deckchair and then sank back into it . |
| 16 | The package to be updated is read from LIFESPAN , updated to reference the modules to be incorporated in the baseline , and then entered back into LIFESPAN . |
| 17 | The clones were multiplied in the glasshouse and then transplanted back into patches of the field dominated by the four grass species . |
| 18 | An amount of Tennent 's Lager is then added back into Tennent 's L.A. to bring the alcoholic strength up to 0.9% vol to give it body . |
| 19 | Then drops back into puttering amiability . |
| 20 | and then drops back into recitative with his contemptuous ‘ Ma che una feminella … |
| 21 | He then moved on into Armenia , but on 10th June 1190 , while crossing the River Salef , his horse shied suddenly and Barbarossa fell and disappeared beneath the swiftly flowing waters . |
| 22 | It found an eddy where the outpouring of a supply conduit splashed steadily , and it swung , steadied , and then moved on into the gloom . |
| 23 | The archaeologists camped uncomfortably inside them for a while , then moved out into the townships that had mushroomed around the site . |
| 24 | From here the path follows the river bank downstream and then heads back into the forest and away from the river before crossing a burn . |
| 25 | It started life as a consultancy in parallel processing and then branched out into virtual reality , after seeing the potential of the technology . |
| 26 | He talked about the murder victim sprawled across the pavement , and then wandered off into a conversation about a comedian called Ken Dodd . |
| 27 | They are cooled by water taken from the river Yenisey , which is then discharged back into the river , in contravention of recently-passed environmental legislation . |
| 28 | Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face . |
| 29 | It whined , backed away with its eyes fixed on Grimma , and then darted off into the darkness . |
| 30 | The expedition then sailed out into the Pacific until , 600 miles from the mainland , they came to the lonely archipelago of the Galapagos . |