Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever a Walter Mitty character , he tried to get back into the CIA fold , but after the North fiasco they did not want to know him . |
| 2 | He 'd gone back into the hotel , trying to act casually , and had hovered in reception looking at the magazines in the hardcovers , watching the man explaining to the people in the hut and coming back inside , which confirmed Cormack 's suspicions . |
| 3 | Sometimes I imagined that he 'd sneaked back into the country and was leading another life . |
| 4 | He was climbing on the barrier so he came to go back into the room to tell you what he was doing when Dale fell . ’ |
| 5 | He began to climb down into the ditch , hitting at the grass with his pick-handle . |
| 6 | He decided to go back into the shed , but his muscles would not obey the orders of his mind . |
| 7 | He carried a pale bone which he kept throwing out into the dune for the terrier to retrieve . |
| 8 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 9 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 10 | Especially if it meant he had to go out into the dark . |
| 11 | Calling out to him , she turned to the right , making for the side of the house furthest from Switham Thicket , for she had not forgotten a previous occasion when he had dashed off into the belt of trees . |
| 12 | But this was a lean season for flowers , so he had gone out into the rain looking for snowdrops . |
| 13 | Duroc looked over the reports from the engineers he had sent down into the dry sewers . |
| 14 | The thin man thrust whatever he had found back into the sack and hurriedly reknotted the neck . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , sir , ’ said Charlie , and sat shivering as he continued to stare out into the darkness for another forty minutes . |
| 16 | As he continued to gaze down into the sunlit water a sound intruded into his mind . |
| 17 | Suddenly he rose from his chair , gave a quick look round the office , then went across to the window , where he stood looking down into the courtyard . |