Example sentences of "[vb past] walk into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd walked into the boathouse and tried to pick up an envelope and the floor had given way beneath him and a piece of beam was missing , and if I had n't been there with him he would certainly have drowned in the dock , impaled on something lurking beneath the surface . |
| 2 | I 'd walked into the garden , over tough grass that was n't grass at all but rough , close-growing weed . |
| 3 | If you spotted a smart black-and-white magpie in a field , that was certainly one , but if , when you 'd walked into the next field , you saw another , was that two or another one ? |
| 4 | He 'd walked into the ordinary office on an ordinary day . |
| 5 | Elaine turned to walk into the house . |
| 6 | He stopped in his tracks , scanned the window opposite for some minutes , then turned to walk into the building much more slowly and thoughtfully than before . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid I ca n't see it , ’ snapped Rachel , and turned to walk into the cool air-conditioned stone hallway of the villa . |
| 8 | Here I alighted and began to walk into the wood in search of something . |
| 9 | When I was ready , I started walking into the shallow water away from Blefuscu . |
| 10 | I thought about this with regard to Mr McTavish 's offer and his requiring another bottle for the return and , being a Yorkshireman , decided to walk into the mountain after all . |
| 11 | you jus he kept walking into the doors . |
| 12 | The rest managed to walk into the docks through an unguarded gate carrying one of the dinghys . |
| 13 | YOU only had to walk into the members ' lobby of the Commons yesterday to know what you 'd suspected for days . |
| 14 | If you had to walk into the lion 's den , better have someone on your side . |
| 15 | They blocked the pavement and there was this bloody great lorry up against the path so anybody coming down or up the road had to walk into the road or co , cross the road to the other side ! |
| 16 | Police Sergeant Herbert Thorpe said that Drew had walked into the station and reported that trousers he had lost earlier had shown up and that he wanted the sergeant to inspect them . |
| 17 | The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her . |
| 18 | Next minute Ricky had walked into the room and slapped her across the face . |
| 19 | After stopping in Kinshasa , the flight had landed in France and Mike had walked into the recruiting post at Fort St Nicholas and joined up . |
| 20 | He had been carried along by his wife 's extraordinary power of making decisions , from the time when she had walked into the offices of Glebe and Pargeter , when his old father was alive , and told him that her great-aunt had left her some money and she had decided to invest it in a London house . |
| 21 | She had walked into the house and shouted her usual , I 'm back . ’ |
| 22 | It was so weird it made my hair stand on end ; it was almost as if a ghost had walked into the room . |
| 23 | Once had been at the theatre , when she had walked into the foyer and received a thoroughly unpleasant jolt when she had seen him standing only yards away , and the second time had been at a party . |
| 24 | A mild uproar at the other end of the bar told me without looking that Bunny , the Mother Christmasses and the rest of the band had arrived and had walked into the middle of the darts match . |
| 25 | The Doctor had walked into the fog . |
| 26 | Mr Perkins said they had walked into the surgery and poured bleach into the tank . |
| 27 | Thomas Smyth , prosecuting , said Cook had walked into the depot at 8 pm and been seen by a bus driver manoeuvring the bus out . |
| 28 | Rose , who had n't any recollection of the Leesons , had been surprised by Jane Leeson 's expression when she had walked into the shop . |