Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] into the " in BNC.

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1 Then he plunged off into the Britches to check the nest-boxes .
2 He crept back into the kitchen and made himself another cup of tea .
3 So he goes out into the storm and into wild nature , together with ‘ the wolf and the owl ’ , while his daughters and son-in-law close their doors on him ( 306ff . ) .
4 He tumbled back into the saloon .
5 ‘ Thank you , now take your letter to Hay , then hurry home ! ’ he called as he rode off into the distance .
6 On Sundays , unless the weather was really rough , he rode out into the hills .
7 He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray .
8 He got up into the chilly darkness and went to look .
9 Clutching the phial of thallium in his pocket he got back into the car .
10 At 9 o'clock precisely , just as the pips ended and the news began , he got back into the car and drove off .
11 He got back into the jeep for shelter .
12 He got back into the car and she heard the door slam , the engine accelerate and the tyres slide again on the gravel .
13 When he got back into the kitchen the cat , finally courageous in its search for food , was sitting in the corner .
14 He got back into the front seat and we started up the coast .
15 ‘ Straight on , ’ Ward said as he got back into the driving seat .
16 He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls .
17 He swam back into the bay and along the coast some hundred yards before swimming in again .
18 She had expected Fen to drive back into Little Kirkton , to one of the restaurants there , but instead he headed out into the country .
19 When he headed back into the heart of the crowd she headed the other way , hailed a taxi and went in search of a plane .
20 Eighteen months later he moved on into the marketing and sales department , where he was responsible for liaising between Harwell and the EEC .
21 Forester checked the drawers and cupboards before he moved through into the main room .
22 ‘ The constables are coming , ’ he said tersely as he moved back into the room .
23 He moved out into the countryside , and eleven months later he was back in England .
24 ‘ Hello … what in … ? ’ but the words died on his lips as he drew out into the full brilliance of the moon something that shone with the colour of the moon itself , a circlet of gold on which stood a row of triangular shapes from each of which flashed a pebble , some green , some blue , some red the colour of rubies .
25 He peered up into the mass of wires again , and gave one a poke .
26 Finally he wandered through into the kitchen , pulled off his jacket and draped it over the back of a chair .
27 Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds .
28 He wandered off into the shadow , his head tilted backwards .
29 He wandered out into the kitchen and took a pint of milk from the fridge , supping straight from the bottle .
30 Slipping ammunition into the Winchester , he strolled out into the centre of the road , and stood casually , facing north , the shortened rifle held loosely but firmly in his hands .
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