Example sentences of "[v-ing] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 2 | John went running around the airport , banging into old ladies . |
| 3 | I see myself on the train , in holiday mood , then walking past sunlit honeyed stone walls with doorways opening into quiet inner worlds of lawns and laughter . |
| 4 | Is it the wide range of colours , the beauty of the bud opening into full bloom , or the scent ? |
| 5 | All at once the shore was suddenly very close indeed , the grey smudge resolving into green fields and a sandy beach with houses in a grey and white arc behind it . |
| 6 | The room was rippling with the sounds of their scuffle as they fought in bitter silence , knocking into wooden furniture , she trying to get away , he trying to get her to the bed until they fell against a nightstand and it crashed to the floor . |
| 7 | It was one of those moments when we can actually see whole new groups of people just walking into social history . |
| 8 | Belinda waited quietly , sensing her patient 's need for distraction , but wanting to take a cue from Faye herself before launching into shallow chat . |
| 9 | THERE is a sense of release about December 's stars , perhaps a feeling that the worst is behind you or because you are launching into new territory . |
| 10 | Sun Microsystems Inc had to do something to prove it 's muscling into retail like Hewlett-Packard Co so it went and sold Dunkin' Donuts $8m worth of IPC machines to network more than half its 1,600 franchise operations over the next four years . |
| 11 | In this mode of organising an essay , you divide the issue you are addressing into conflicting positions , or points of view , or sides of an argument . |
| 12 | He marvelled at the girl 's patience as her charge ran hither and thither , collecting shells and seaweed , splashing in the waves at the water 's edge , letting out little shrieks of excitement and then relapsing into relative quietness when food and drink were produced out of a knapsack . |
| 13 | Even the rain no longer seemed fresh : it congealed in the sullied air , splattering into filthy stinking puddles , hammering the roof and churning up the packed mud until it was slushy and loose . |
| 14 | So long as France and Scotland were run by three members of the mighty Guise family , the cardinal and the duke in France and their sister Mary in Scotland , then the only way for the Lords of the Congregation to achieve their religious ends , and prevent Scotland from sinking into provincial status , was to resist the regent . |
| 15 | The hard core of party-goers stayed on until the small hours , drinking coffee , sprawled on settees , sinking into morose abuse and gloom , surfacing occasionally to laugh , to chatter , relapsing , rising , sinking again . |
| 16 | ‘ No no ! ’ he said , sinking into sullen silence . |
| 17 | ‘ Where have you brought me ? ’ she demanded accusingly , her high heels sinking into thick carpeting . |
| 18 | They seem also to have underestimated the likely future increase in the cost of pensions due to the increasing numbers living into old age . |
| 19 | He became a cult figure in Glasgow , stalking the streets in leather pork-pie hats , wandering into darkened pubs wearing shades , and setting up an unofficial headquarters in the lounge of the St Enoch 's Hotel where he could survey the talent and go about the more important business of being Baxter . |
| 20 | It would be quite impracticable to carry waste rock any great distance and it is quite certain that ore being produced at Coniston , was machine and hand dressed to as great a concentration as possible , before filling into strong saddle bags for the 20 mile pack-horse journey , over the mountain tops , to the Brigham smelters . |
| 21 | SWIMMING INTO NEW YEAR |
| 22 | This trend towards the concentration of publishing into corporate organizations meant a centralization and Americanization for most European publishers too . |
| 23 | He saw a mass of freckles — sometimes melding into sixpenny-sized brown patches of warmth — moving over the hard frame of cheekbones and brow . |
| 24 | The Realm of Chaos swept over the city and engulfed it , and Praag was changed forever , its stone walls and building melding into hellish and inhuman shapes . |
| 25 | Methods of operation of the Awe barrage since passing into private ownership have again been causing controversy this winter . |
| 26 | ‘ This particular part of Wychwood wo n't be coming down , Boz , but it will be passing into private hands-as part of the manor 's lands . |
| 27 | Fears in the 1970s — shared by the NI — of multinational corporations developing into international , all-powerful giants with loyalty to no country , now appear dated . |
| 28 | Second , because of the rules governing the payment of supplementary benefit to strikers ( to be discussed below ) the present system results ‘ in short strikes developing into long strikes ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I Ca n't Remember ’ throws a curve ball , the expected ballad developing into eerie strangeness , ‘ It Ai n't Like That ’ is Sub Prop grunge preceding total fretboard freakout , and ‘ Put You Down ’ rides on the back of a neo-psychedelic '60s power trio workout . |
| 30 | ‘ I Ca n't Remember ’ throws a curve ball , the expected ballad developing into eerie strangeness , ‘ It Ai n't Like That ’ is Sub Prop grunge preceding total fretboard freakout , and ‘ Put You Down ’ rides on the back of a neo-psychedelic '60s power trio workout . |