Example sentences of "[vb past] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the blood oozed into great black puddles over which huge swarms of flies hovered . |
| 2 | Members of certain ethnic and caste groups clustered into specific occupations . |
| 3 | As the death toll mounted , and the futility of the war of attrition on the Western Front seeped into public consciousness , the pacifists moved onto the offensive . |
| 4 | Inevitably , in time , some of the progressive ideas being put forward seeped into public consciousness . |
| 5 | One-and-a-bit pence per mile does n't sound much , but multiplied into billions , even trillions , of user-miles , it is a rich seam of gold for cash-strapped governments . |
| 6 | Where it ran into the special ceramic-and-leather codpiece that it tailored into most of my tights and leggings , a useful protection in many situations . |
| 7 | Just before half-time City came back with a goal from Ian Baird it was well made and well taken … food for thought for the United defence and of course Smith who started off in the directors box but was down on the touchline after this incident in which David Penney charged into Junior Bent … |
| 8 | Nor could Obispal exactly be viewed as incompetent , despite his last-moment slackening of judgement when he charged into that trap in the arcade . |
| 9 | Now the rattle and roar of the tube faded abruptly as it surfaced into bright sunlight . |
| 10 | As it flopped its way forward , the vulnerable underside came down on the ring just as the mini-grenade in the stone erupted into satisfying flame . |
| 11 | Throughout 1988 there were reports of growing unrest in Armenia which eventually erupted into major dashes , with tales of large-scale rioting and murder with tanks and troops on the streets . |
| 12 | Tensions between ethnic groups in Sind ( see pp. 37150-51 ) again erupted into major violence on Oct. 1 , 1989 , when members of the extremist Sind National Alliance ( SNA ) , demanding independence for the province , occupied Sukkar airport and burnt the Pakistani flag . |
| 13 | The repugnance they felt towards more decorated churches occasionally erupted into violent bouts of iconoclasm . |
| 14 | Frustration in urban areas over the first round defeat of the main opposition Democratic Party ( DP ) erupted into anti-communist rioting on the morning of April 2 in the northern city of Shkodër . |
| 15 | The memory was too much for him and he erupted into loud , desperate sobs , a pitiful sound to hear . |
| 16 | The conditions of service , the harshness of the environment , the atrocious difficulties associated with travel and food supplies , the ravages of scurvy , and the son of men who went out in search of new lands for the tsar , all contributed to the tense atmosphere which sometimes erupted into bloody conflict . |
| 17 | In 1937 Sino-Japanese friction erupted into full-scale war , but even this failed to rally much more than token support for China in the West . |
| 18 | From time to time the tensions of clerical dualism erupted into fierce controversy , but in 1341 at least the eruption resulted in no marked shift in clergy-laity relations , not even with regard to the employment of clerical ministers by the crown . |
| 19 | The Express reports : ‘ Labour 's battle for power erupted into open civil war yesterday … the party 's fragile unity began to crumble … ’ |
| 20 | As the sun rose into clear skies and burned down on the plain of the Forth , you would say the exposed army opposite would have the worst of it , despite their shields and their awnings . |
| 21 | Two lanes north and two lanes south cars poured through in an unbroken line ; container trucks , like cliffsides on the move , whammed into each other 's slipstream . |
| 22 | Stirling 's party decided to lie up for the day and , leaving the road , headed into some low hills covered with scrubby bushes . |
| 23 | He was to be found lurking in the band 's dressing room whenever they ventured into Mancunian territory , which was often . |
| 24 | Last but not least , we ventured into another area completely in October , when Mark and his team joined us with their Compliance Testing Service . |
| 25 | He also ventured into musical commerce , and after joining with John Longman as Longman , Clementi & Co. , 1798–1801 , he entered into partnership with F. W. Collard [ q.v. ] and others as music publisher , dealer , and pianoforte maker as Clementi & Co. , 1801–6 . |
| 26 | It would seem that the primary activity of operations needs to be split into direct and indirect costs , with the latter analysed into major cost-driver categories as interpreted by Kaplan . |
| 27 | She bought a successful suit for restitution of conjugal rights , expecting to move back to Neeld 's palatial house in Grosvenor Square , but , to spite her , Neeld moved into two rooms in a hotel . |
| 28 | Also , he found that whenever he moved into one group or another , the warren rabbits evidently knew who he was and treated him as the leader of the newcomers . |
| 29 | My daughter and I moved into one and my son commandeered another . |
| 30 | Influential in child psychiatry for over thirty years , Kahn moved into that field from the excellent springboard of general practice . |