Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Reynolds was in the doorway , almost ready herself to go to the wedding — she never missed a wedding or a funeral — but seeing the procession that approached withdrew back into the shadows of the room to observe better the old cockerel go by followed by his dismayed pullets . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | A pasty white blob seemed to float out into the darkness , and then the laser brilliance of a pencil flash in the hand below it . |
| 5 | She 'd moved over into the makeup chair and had been studying her own face in the mirror . |
| 6 | She came stumbling back into the dining car followed by a commotion of people yelling behind her . |
| 7 | When responsible citizens or policemen came rushing out into the road to grab at it and avert a disaster , Uncle Titch would leap up from behind his seat and pretend they just had n't noticed him . |
| 8 | Every bird in the wood seemed to fly up into the air . |
| 9 | Shelley too leaped to his feet , shrieking , and knocked his chair over , so that Mary came running back into the room . |
| 10 | They seemed to stretch back into the hillside as if they might , at some stage , cease to become manmade buildings of stone and wood and brick and become ancient caves ; tunnels that would penetrate deep into the earth 's core . |
| 11 | When they 'd gone through into the lecture hall , I noticed the professor staring after them with a very odd look on his face — a stunned , frozen look . |
| 12 | The floorboards had n't snapped , as I 'd originally thought : they 'd gone down into the dock with Harry . |
| 13 | She 'd gone back into the house to fetch something and his Dad was all ready in the car waiting to drive Uncle Walter back to his house . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's as if you 'd gone out into the bigger world and found out that it 's frightening or that it hurts , so you go home . |
| 16 | Sometimes I imagined that he 'd sneaked back into the country and was leading another life . |
| 17 | Duncan turned to go back into the room . |
| 18 | ‘ I came to ask you to supper , ’ she babbled looking back into the drawing room . |
| 19 | The cripple turned to make off into the undergrowth and as he did so there was a twang from Marian 's bow and one of his crutches spun from under him and he was down one-sidedly . |
| 20 | Members began to go out into the country on day trips , and the first cricket match between two deaf clubs in the country , which later led to the formation of inter-institute sports activities of billiards , darts , and other sports , took place on 23rd July 1892 at Manchester between Manchester Deaf and Dumb Institute and the Bolton and Bury Institutes . |
| 21 | Colour began to come back into the young woman 's cheeks . |
| 22 | People began to come back into the block . |
| 23 | I began to climb back into the limo . |
| 24 | He began to climb down into the ditch , hitting at the grass with his pick-handle . |
| 25 | He decided to go back into the shed , but his muscles would not obey the orders of his mind . |
| 26 | It would give them the push they needed to come out into the open . |
| 27 | She loved to walk out into the villages where she would sit round the fire or outside a hut shelling peanuts with a family , so that she learned first hand many of the African customs and quickly mastered the language . |
| 28 | I persuaded them both to come out of the room the same way , as I had no key to the door , and took Heathcliff down into the warm servants ' kitchen with me , while Catherine returned to her guests and the dancing . |
| 29 | Patrick lay looking down into the dell . |
| 30 | He stood up and picked up the candle and went wandering off into the shadows with it . |