Example sentences of "[vb pp] into [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had looked twice that when she had limped into her cousin Mandy 's apartment in Vernon , in the Okanagan Valley , burnt out , exhausted , disillusioned and emotional . |
| 2 | Although a touring boat is long and difficult to turn , it has a useful steering capability designed into its shape . |
| 3 | Ruth Russell 's lips were compressed into their usual taut line . |
| 4 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 5 | In those days I slept a great deal , and sometimes I dreamed : not of what had happened but of emptiness and occasionally of chaos when the tenuous mosaic that was life shattered into its constituent parts and whirled away into unknown infinities . |
| 6 | Deuterium is the most commonly used fuel in attempts to create controlled fusion and the two chemists believed that once the deuterium was crammed inside the palladium within their test tube , the nuclei of the deuterium atoms would undergo nuclear fusion generating heat and either being transformed — as in all nuclear reactions — into new elements like helium or being shattered into their constituent parts , such as protons and neutrons . |
| 7 | She was rebuilt into her present form at Cowlairs works in 1915 and served on the continent during the First World War . |
| 8 | During evolution it could have been modified into its present form . |
| 9 | A metal ‘ halo ’ — secured to her head by four bolts drilled into her skull , and to a plaster cast stretching from hips to shoulder — kept Lisa 's head stationary |
| 10 | Several seconds passed before the face of the strange woman dissolved into her own recognized reflection . |
| 11 | All other property which may have come into her possession can be disposed of freely by her . |
| 12 | This generous man with guinea-gold hair had come into her life so unexpectedly , but she just knew that like a guinea he would slip through her fingers before she had a chance to know him better . |
| 13 | Crouching down in order to finish dressing his back afresh , she was surprised to feel a lump come into her throat and saw him through sudden tears , making her confused and uneasy . |
| 14 | A week ago a man on the run had come into her house , he had been unkempt , his hair curling thickly about his face , he had not been as well groomed as the man standing before her now , but the breadth of shoulder was the same and something about the dark eyes staring into hers touched a chord . |
| 15 | She stared up at him , touched to tears by his thoughtfulness , he had come into her life such a short time ago and yet he had been so good to her , so strong and kind . |
| 16 | Now , however , her husband had a motor-car — the first Cork Jew to possess one — and as they drove to the synagogue , their distinguished visitor , Karlinsky , beside her in the back seat , she felt she had at last come into her kingdom . |
| 17 | The two sharp points of red that had come into her cheeks the night before were there again . |
| 18 | She stared at Lucenzo in consternation , sitting erect in the chair , unnerved by a terrible idea that had come into her head . |
| 19 | He 'd done it again , she thought morosely , yet for a while , back there in the field , she 'd felt almost like her old self , the person she had been before Ryan had come into her life . |
| 20 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 21 | It was sparsely furnished , for Anne had only just come into her inheritance , but it was newly decorated and clean . |
| 22 | It was crude and probably impracticable , but it embodied an idea that has now come into its own in the age of the silicon chip . |
| 23 | This doubt is far from new , but today 's intellectual climate provides an ideal breeding-ground and it has come into its own again . |
| 24 | The water is freezing and there are no bikini-clad girls ti impress , but winter in Cornwall sees the surfing hardcore come into its own . |
| 25 | AFTER A FEW HOT SUMMERS , LIGHTWEIGHT , POLYCOTTON CLOTHING HAS COME INTO ITS OWN . |
| 26 | Moreover , on the academic front , the detailed empirical study of electoral behaviour through sample surveys has come into its own so that we now have a great deal more information on which to explore the hopes and fears of those who took sides on the issue of democracy at the same time as we are provided with information to check out the reality of key elements of the responsible party model in Britain . |
| 27 | Against that , though , there is a ‘ vast contemporary repertoire — the guitar has come into its own in popularity in this period , and people are now writing for it with a vengeance . |
| 28 | Paradoxically , it was in this administrative vacuum that many members of the Colonial Service felt they had come into their own . |
| 29 | In mid-winter in the UK , some areas of great natural beauty come into their own . |
| 30 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |