Example sentences of "[vb past] into [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engines grumbled into silence . |
| 2 | Everywhere the land and its concerns seeped into town-life : the towns of the south had agricultural suburbs inhabited by day labourers hired in the square by the bailiffs of the great estates . |
| 3 | The colour seeped into Topaz 's cheeks and Lovat raised his eyebrows . |
| 4 | Baden-Powell was particularly fond of this extravagant , but nevertheless deeply felt historical posture , and he saw the shadow of Rome hanging over the huge crowds attending the football stadiums which he likened to the ‘ unmanly ’ attitude of the young Romans who loafed around the circus entertainments — ‘ they paid men to play their games for them , so that they could look on without the fag of playing , just as we are doing in football now ’ — as he charged into battle against this betrayal of the British traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship : |
| 5 | Crow roasted the earth to a clinker , he charged into space — |
| 6 | The institutional investors that charged into junk bonds in the 1980s have now headed off at a gallop in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | Oxford 's David Penney charged into City winger Junior Bent during the match last Saturday . |
| 8 | The sullen slopes , made murky by the driving snow , erupted into life . |
| 9 | He outlined his plans and , with only a day to prepare , the camp erupted into activity . |
| 10 | Just twelve days after the film 's first private viewing in Mali , Mali erupted into revolution . |
| 11 | The library erupted into chaos . |
| 12 | AUSTRALIA 'S tour of Wales erupted into fury last night as Wallaby coach Bob Dwyer accused Neath players of dirty and illegal play . |
| 13 | Midway through the second half the tie erupted into warfare after Rush and Froggies forward Cecilliot got in a tangle . |
| 14 | When the mountains erupted into flame and the lands were riven by earthquakes the Dwarf Empire was finally broken and its people scattered . |
| 15 | The anti-government mood in the streets of Bamako , the capital , and other main towns , which erupted into rioting in January [ see p. 37947 ] , persisted into February , amid continuing demands from opposition groups for multiparty democracy . |
| 16 | Langley Dene erupted into chatter and activity and the Manor House , around which Mr and Mrs Burrows had moved in stately solitude all term , echoed with shouts and thundering feet . |
| 17 | In 1629 , the intense anxiety and frustration of the MPs erupted into violence , as the Speaker of the Commons was held down in his chair while the House forced through motions condemning the religious innovations . |
| 18 | Conflict between nationalist parties ahead of the Georgian Supreme Soviet elections due on Oct. 28 , centring on plans to pre-empt those elections with an independent poll on Sept. 30 for a rival National Congress , erupted into violence on Sept. 18-19 . |
| 19 | While Georgia 's South Ossetia region continued in a state of virtual civil war , an unconnected ethnic dispute erupted into violence during April in neighbouring North Ossetia , an ASSR across the Caucasus mountains in the Russian Federation . |
| 20 | The dispute erupted into violence on Monday when several people clashed with police as attempts were made to stop buses carrying workers getting through the gates . |
| 21 | Here I shall find you , Céline , soul of my soul , he told the summits of Arthur 's Seat as they rose into view over the flats of Dunbar . |
| 22 | A hole had opened in the floor and the naked corpse of a white woman rose into view . |
| 23 | A section of floor in the middle of the room slid aside and a nice bright-red Buick aircar rose into view . |
| 24 | We rose into birdsong and the evening call to pray . |
| 25 | At last the lift hummed into life and one of the Society 's younger members , Giles Bloxham , appeared . |
| 26 | I turned , grabbed my dressing gown and made for the door ; with one mighty ninja kick , the side of my right foot connected with all three switches of the fan heater at the same time and it hummed into life . |
| 27 | In the odd invertebrate there is monogamy but no ordinary parental care : the limnorid isopods that bore into shipwood live in pairs , but the young look after themselves ; likewise , some wood-boring scolytid beetles live in pairs but have no parental care in the ordinary sense of the word — although the young may benefit from the proximity of their parents . |
| 28 | Half a dozen of us piled into an old station wagon driven by Clay Conoly , the rancher , and headed into town . |
| 29 | Finally , with Madeleine ( 1950 ) , Lean ventured into costume melodrama , telling the story of a nineteenth-century woman who may , or may not , have murdered her French lover . |
| 30 | Such a material might be produced by rolling or by the type of lateral crystallization found with the " shish-kebab " structure formed in stirred polymer solutions , Walpole ( 1969 ) gives formulae for the elastic constants of arrays of disc-like inclusions while the author ( 1976 ) has calculated the longitudinal elastic properties of the two-dimensional " lamellar stack " model ( Figure 4.7 ) , which has applications to the morphologies found in drawn and rolled polymers as well as to laminates made of two polymers co-extruded into multilayer sheets . |