Example sentences of "then [verb] [adv prt] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed agitated , restlessly pacing about , looking out into the crowds , then drawing back into the shelter of the arcade . |
| 2 | I cleaned my arse quickly and pulled my trousers up , pulling the chain , too , and then waddling out into the corridor , zipping up . |
| 3 | There is the metal-ring type muzzle , which is screwed into place via a pin passed across the inside of a ferret 's mouth behind its big teeth and then threaded back into the ring . |
| 4 | I said I believed them to be following the correct route and then crept off into the mist surreptitiously to whip out my compass . |
| 5 | The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position . |
| 6 | It found an eddy where the outpouring of a supply conduit splashed steadily , and it swung , steadied , and then moved on into the gloom . |
| 7 | The archaeologists camped uncomfortably inside them for a while , then moved out into the townships that had mushroomed around the site . |
| 8 | From here the path follows the river bank downstream and then heads back into the forest and away from the river before crossing a burn . |
| 9 | They are cooled by water taken from the river Yenisey , which is then discharged back into the river , in contravention of recently-passed environmental legislation . |
| 10 | Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face . |
| 11 | It whined , backed away with its eyes fixed on Grimma , and then darted off into the darkness . |
| 12 | The expedition then sailed out into the Pacific until , 600 miles from the mainland , they came to the lonely archipelago of the Galapagos . |
| 13 | Return to the castle and its second courtyard , then walk through into the final and greatest courtyard , past the limestone blocks of the Romanesque White Tower . |
| 14 | The digested sludge is dried in open pits and then put back into the pigs ' feed in a proportion of one part to 10 . |
| 15 | Where they do not exist it can be presumed that either the genuine silver-gilt coronet was used at the funeral and then put back into the strongroom after the funeral , or they have disintegrated . |
| 16 | The dormice are weighed and then put back into the nest . |
| 17 | As soon as a truck is loaded it is removed by a ‘ traverser ’ on to a clear inner set of metals , and is then drawn out into the outer goods yard . |
| 18 | I want ( sort of ) Blackburn to catch Scum , with the pressure they may break ( as they have done previously ) and then drop back into the chasing pack . |
| 19 | He placed the receiver down , stared at it thoughtfully for a moment , then turned back into the room , intending to join the Hatches in the garden . |
| 20 | She carried a long pole which was draped with hanks of haigus wool , and she dropped it across the rails of the staging , then turned back into the gloom of the shop again . |
| 21 | Karen pulled out of John 's arms then climbed down into the cabin . |
| 22 | You may not feel that this is always necessary with designs that can be knitted automatically , since they will appear on screen in colour , but it is a great memory jogger and , rather then going back into the programme to look at a design , the colours and design may be seen from the printout . |
| 23 | She eased back and kissed him , then walked on into the kitchen , her limp dictating the tiny sway of her hips . |
| 24 | The man dried his hands and took the phone through to Boy , then walked back into the kitchen . |
| 25 | Alec stared at him for a few seconds , then walked out into the heat and glare of the mid-day sun . |
| 26 | I landed on all fours , stayed on all fours , then scampered off into the blackness . |
| 27 | The disgraced soldier was then dragged back into the glare of publicity last November when the Attorney General successfully challenged her sentence as ‘ unduly lenient ’ . |
| 28 | At Tim 's call , the car slowed down and then swung on into the track leading to Smiling Meadow . |
| 29 | a woman stared suspiciously form the farm 's arch at the two soldiers , then stepped back into the yard and slammed the heavy gate . |
| 30 | She sat at the edge of the cockpit , curled her legs into the warm shelter of the jacket , then hunched down into the thick collar so that all I could see of her face was her enormous , moon-silvered and lemur-like eyes beneath the pale gleam of her short bright hair . |