hammered in to

Even those prone to the greatest understatement would describe the weather as inclement, and for several hours, as the rain came down in torrents and the wind hammered in to turn umbrellas inside out, it was vile.

She climbed to the window ledge, felt for the nails that Abel had hammered in to hold his feet and soon ascended through a large gap under the eaves of the store.

The half-heard name of the ship that was to carry Yann away became suddenly fixed in her brain, as if it had been hammered in to remain more ineffaceably there.