Example sentences of "[v-ing] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were laughing into each other 's faces at some private joke ; they had n't seen me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Erm then there would be the idea of seating into this little er ornamental circular paved area , and seating at different parts around the edges . |
| 4 | I keep banging into these horrible trolleys , and everything 's all dark and dirty . |
| 5 | John went running around the airport , banging into old ladies . |
| 6 | Even in the corn-exchange of a country town on a market-day the equilibrium price is affected by calculations of the future relations of production and consumption ; while in the leading corn-markets of America and Europe dealings for future delivery already predominate and are rapidly weaving into one web all the leading threads of trade in corn throughout the whole world . |
| 7 | At Mucking ( Jones 1980 ) blocks of slag were recovered , the largest weighing 24 kilograms , produced when either waste slag or cinder was dropped into the bottom of the shaft , cooling into such blocks . |
| 8 | The outer circumference and walls will be more exhibition like , but can only be found by going through the tunnels opening into that segment . |
| 9 | They went into a large department store with doorways opening into two main streets , Queen Street and Adelaide Street . |
| 10 | They were very small , one up one down , their front doors opening into this narrow courtyard . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Is it the wide range of colours , the beauty of the bud opening into full bloom , or the scent ? |
| 13 | ‘ Checking into that organization may take months . |
| 14 | In fact , unknown to the traveller , who was no more a geologist than a naturalist , he was about to step over the geological phenomenon of two prehistoric ages crunching into each other as noticeably as jagged waves hitting a large smooth stone . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When the horse reared as Ana 's had done it seemed to grow in stature , holding the stance endlessly and then leaping into that strange jump , its forelegs not touching the ground . |
| 18 | Meredith hastily curbed her natural friendliness , reminding herself that she was n't at home now , gossiping to strangers and leaping into any car that came down the lane . |
| 19 | The Jews were walking into all the plum jobs , in the medical profession especially , which infuriated Odilo and his friends , and which , to be frank , even worried me . |
| 20 | Try walking into that dressing-room after they had just lost by an innings . |
| 21 | He seemed so out of place , with his nice suit and white shirt and neat tie , walking into this filthy basement room . |
| 22 | Yeah , actually se , I sa , actually she said oh what , have you been walking into this time ? |
| 23 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |
| 24 | It was one of those moments when we can actually see whole new groups of people just walking into social history . |
| 25 | It is rather like someone switching on a cassette in one room and then walking into another . |
| 26 | But walking inside was like walking into some hijacked piece of a South Sea island . |
| 27 | Belinda waited quietly , sensing her patient 's need for distraction , but wanting to take a cue from Faye herself before launching into shallow chat . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Of my sister 's , really , ’ said the fräulein , launching into another personal tale of woe . |
| 30 | ‘ I have had lovers , ’ announced the fräulein , launching into another of her bouts of desperate and embarrassing honesty . |