Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 2 | But I 'd eluded them before and I could again , I told myself , almost jauntily , as I ambled into the bar that I decided to make my last stop for the night . |
| 3 | As I pass into the cool , dappled light , the deep silence of the wood surrounds me . |
| 4 | They would sit patiently either side of my word processor as I wrote into the small hours , purring appreciatively when I was pleased with myself , and opening their eyes enquiringly when I was not . |
| 5 | I am inclined to say that ‘ Here ’ , in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ is true only in so far as it basks in the reflected glory of such genuine truths as , ‘ Here ’ , said as I point into the flower-vase , having been asked , ‘ Where is it ? ’ in the course of a game of hunt-the-thimble . |
| 6 | As I drove into the guide dog training centre at Leamington Spa it took me back to the day I arrived there to start my apprenticeship as a guide dog mobility instructor . |
| 7 | As I drove into the underground car park of Pretty , Keen , Bastards , the garageman looked |
| 8 | As I went into the graveyard , the church bell began to ring . |
| 9 | But I certainly did n't think , as I went into the trees , that I should have the apparent answer within another hundred yards . |
| 10 | As I went into the house , I noticed that one person did not come to meet me . |
| 11 | And one day I dro I dropped it down the the drain as I went into the shop . |
| 12 | I missed my dad more than ever as I went into the house , ahead of the others , and climbed the drab stairs to lie on my bed , looking out at the bright blue sky above the street . |
| 13 | I had been born on Easter Sunday 21 years earlier and as I went into the water , I thought : ‘ Laddo , you 're going to die on Easter Sunday , too ’ . |
| 14 | As I came into the room , he changed his expression quickly and smiled at me . |
| 15 | I headed for the tube station at Baker Street and turned down my collar as I came into the Marylebone Road . |
| 16 | As I came into the hotel I tried to project myself back into a time when I 'd have been thinking — Sunday press party , rather fun . |
| 17 | Mrs Quigley held out her arms as I came into the hall . |
| 18 | ‘ Danzig ’ , called my mum , as I disappeared into the house , ‘ looked as if he might do it . |
| 19 | At the hotel I paid him in cash with a bonus and sent him on his way , and was in time to see Filmer 's backview receding into a dark-looking bar as I walked into the big central hall lobby . |
| 20 | His first day in 1924 watching his county , Sussex , convinced him that there is no greater moment than a big hit : ‘ As I walked into the ground a ball came bouncing off the Town Hall roof and nearly hit me on the head . |
| 21 | She was alone in the house and she turned her head as I walked into the kitchen . |
| 22 | My hands were shaking as I got into the raft for the second time . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw him as I ran into the glade . |
| 24 | The phone is ringing as I fumble with the key , my bladder is bursting and as I fall into the room I 'm undecided which call to answer first . |
| 25 | The topmost foliage is taller than me and the growth is so dense I can not be seen from the lawn as I dig into the muddy trench which forms an oasis round the stem . |
| 26 | Our square red-brick house stands some 100 yards away ( as I look into the Sun ) with its french windows open . |
| 27 | The machine turned upside down as I slid into the water . |
| 28 | The car was still with us as I slid into the kerb just short of the hotel entrance . |
| 29 | I think I began to have more of an influence as I settled into the group . ’ |
| 30 | The light of dawn was beginning to brighten the Alaska sky as I settled into the cockpit of the U.S. fighter aircraft ; ‘ Deemy ’ was in the pilot-seat as we took off into , as our American hosts would say , ‘ the wild blue yonder ’ ! |