Example sentences of "went into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1720s the use of walnut went into sharp decline and it was replaced by mahogany . |
| 2 | But the amount of Aramaic literature which went into international circulation must have been limited in quantity and variety . |
| 3 | He contracted a feverish cold on the boat , however , and after he arrived in New York at the beginning of October he went into virtual seclusion at the home of McKnight Kauffer and Marion Dorn before going on to Princeton . |
| 4 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 5 | It went into great detail about how much it would take to start the colliery again and said that it would cost millions of pounds . |
| 6 | Probably when the saying went into general use , people did n't understand it and changed it to cat . |
| 7 | If as much effort had been devoted to providing good levels of insulation as went into other recent advances in building practice , we would all now be living in highly energy-efficient homes , and paying much smaller heating bills . |
| 8 | Although preliminary speculation was that the crash might have been caused by a bomb , accident investigators revealed that the plane had nose-dived after the right engine suddenly went into reverse thrust ; electronic safety systems designed to cope with this had apparently failed , and a warning light had either malfunctioned or had not been believed by the pilot . |
| 9 | Lawrence Tiller and his wife Amy who went into successful competition with his own father . |
| 10 | And whenever a cat died he noted that Egyptians all went into deep mourning and shaved off their eyebrows as a sign of their distress . |
| 11 | Search consultants are often called in when an organisation is considering going into a new business sector , as Marks & Spencer did when they went into financial services with their credit card ; as when BP were trying to diversify their business and spot winners by developing new technology ; as financial services institutions do when they wish to launch a new product or enter new markets . |
| 12 | By 1943 , they were free to offer their services to any part of the military except the Signals ; 800 Pioneers went into technical units , 650 to combatant units of the infantry and armoured corps , 450 to the Intelligence Corps and specialist formations , 300 to the Commandos , the Airborne troops and the special forces , and over 100 to the Navy and the Royal Air Force . |
| 13 | The National Association of Probation Officers went into Long Lartin in Worcestershire to interview and examine the personal files of men who insist they 're innocent.Anne Nankivell reports . |
| 14 | There were only a few weeks now before she went into dry dock . |
| 15 | The hon. Lady was probably referring to cuts in regional development grants , which reflected a move away from automatic grants which went into loss-making nationalised industries . |
| 16 | Figure 5 is the PAS-score trajectory for Lowndes Queensway , the second largest furniture and carpet retailer in the UK , which went into administrative receivership in August 1990 , exactly two years after it was formed from a £450M leverage buy-out . |
| 17 | Last year Ramar Textiles at Crooks axed more than 500 jobs when it went into administrative receivership and similar jobs losses were announced in Darlington and Aycliffe . |
| 18 | I contacted Greenalls , who were very helpful , but it seems that the original contractors , A Temple Somerville , went into administrative receivership the day after Ron 's mishap . |
| 19 | With a hoarse cry she went into violent climax , her body possessed by the pulse that roared in her ears , her heart , her stomach , her thighs and made her limbs spasm and twist in ecstasy beneath him — no longer human , no longer conscious , no longer caring about anything except the dark flood of pleasure that rushed through her and shook her till she rattled and writhed to a hot , pulsing oblivion on his body . |
| 20 | A total of 23,594 companies in England and Wales went into compulsory or voluntary liquidation in 1992 — a rise of 8.2 per cent — according to figures from the accountancy firm KPMG Peat Marwick . |
| 21 | He was angry when wife number one Neile Adams had a baby girl : ‘ He went into total shock . |
| 22 | So I went into Irish pubs . |
| 23 | ‘ We hope that birth will be given to a document which will allow the coordinated action of European countries against the undesirable effects of increasing illegal migration which worry us all , ’ Boross said before the meeting went into closed session . |
| 24 | At least 72 of our sample left the printing trade during the war years , according to the records mostly in 1916–17 , although it seems likely that some had already left , since the city 's book trade went into immediate depression on the outbreak of war . |
| 25 | After a few years caddying on and off for de Vicenzo , Dave went into full-time caddying in the mid-1970s , although he was still doing work other than caddying when he took the bag of Vicente Fernandez . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Charles , as Bartlemas and O'Rourke went into new paroxysms of laughter . |
| 27 | I went into New Look and they had some lovely things in there this morning ! |
| 28 | During World War Two , he went into naval research as a lieutenant , working on a thermal-guided missile and other projects , and it was there that he met his future partner , Ibuka . |
| 29 | But Swindon had a similar close shave in the last seconds of full time as Philliskirk hit the crossbar and the game went into extra time . |
| 30 | As the tie went into extra time , both sides struggled in the warm sunshine , but Powell made an extra effort and forced the ball home to put Haslemere in the lead . |