Example sentences of "[adv] into it " in BNC.

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1 The four children invented imaginary countries and characters and threw themselves fiercely into it .
2 Let us rather ask ourselves how we would score bar 5 if it stood alone apart from its context , and adapt the first four bars to this arrangement so as to lead naturally into it .
3 Kadan picked up the bow case and slid the bow gently into it .
4 Just think of a very heavy pebble making a very steep-sided dimple — and a poor little beetle struggling to get out of it , but slithering deeper and deeper into it .
5 The rest of the United Kingdom now seems to be beginning to move out of recession ; is it not true that Northern Ireland is about to move deeper into it ?
6 If there is a possible area for a safe landing , use the brakes and get down into it .
7 The library , somewhat lost in the old set up around Oxford Street , now has a prominent position to the right of the front door — windows in the entrance area provide a semi-public view down into it .
8 The track plunged down into it and emerged on the other side .
9 Her shoulders were hunched up high and her lips were pressed together tight and she sat there gripping her mug of tea in both hands and staring down into it as though searching for a way to answer these not-quite-so-innocent questions .
10 Another time , Swan flew through the night for what seemed like hours and hours until they came at last to a gigantic opening in the earth 's surface , a sort of huge gaping hole in the ground , and Swan glided slowly round and round above this massive crater and then right down into it .
11 Ropes let down into it seem to go down forever , coins dropped never make a sound , etc .
12 He crossed to the easy chair facing his mother and sank down into it .
13 However , it is likely that they too could use the channel by bouncing their calls off the continental shelves which slope down into it .
14 The man 's head is poised over the shaft , drooping down into it .
15 He hurried up the hill to the edge of the chalk-pit , and looked down into it .
16 The tall man opened the hold and Hitch peered down into it , glancing at dozens of crates all of roughly the same size .
17 She 'd pull you down into it . ’
18 Quote the story of the old soldier who saw that a watch had fallen into a bear-pit , climbed down into it , and was eaten .
19 But a few moments later , in Simon 's cottage , when he pulled up a chair to the fire and gently pressed her down into it , she managed to say , ‘ You — knew …
20 And towards morning , when the snow turned again to rain , the whole hillside under which they were camped had become furrowed and scoured by a hundred brooks scurrying and leaping downwards into the river valley , till the level of the flood crept up towards their outposts , and its tributaries carried down into it everything movable that came in their way , including some of the hobbled horses , and the wreckage of tents , and drowned men .
21 She unhooks the silver droplet from her ear , holds it in her palm , and glares down into it .
22 She grabbed her mug of tea , gripping it in both hands and staring down into it with an expression of such misery that one could almost imagine the dead girl 's face reflected in the surface of the liquid .
23 to peep down into it from up above …
24 He was back in the seat , having kissed her glancingly on the mouth as he swung down into it .
25 You stepped down into it out of the street .
26 Ruth pushed it back into the full glare of the sun and slumped down into it , raising her face to the hot sun to absorb its rays .
27 Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with
28 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 .
29 With the easy grace and dignity associated with the old amateur tradition there was never any doubt that the job would come to him , and so gifted was he as a batsman that one somehow assumed he would slip easily into it once he had learned the ropes .
30 She crooked her elbow , but the baby 's head did n't seem to fit comfortably into it .
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