Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But last night Livingstone tracked his Newton Aycliffe rival and surged into a winning lead 200 metres from the finish . |
| 2 | Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened . |
| 3 | She went into the tiny bedroom , stripped off her tights and slipped into a loose T-shirt and boxer shorts . |
| 4 | React To Rhythm , Superreal , and Spooky are all a sophisticated hybrid of US and European influences , shot through with a dub sensibility and turned into a driving , expanded hypnodance sound . |
| 5 | He started as a fast bowler and turned into a wonderful offspinner … |
| 6 | He opened a small side-door and walked into a small side-hall . |
| 7 | This over-the-head version weighed only 14 oz and went into a neat little stuff sack . |
| 8 | TONIGHT 'S HUMBLE bill at the Pop Club went way beyond all expectations of a fairly good evening and turned into a joyous celebration . |
| 9 | TONIGHT 'S HUMBLE bill at the Pop Club went way beyond all expectations of a fairly good evening and turned into a joyous celebration . |
| 10 | A group of OSF/Motif suppliers are embarking on a process to keep the graphical user interface ‘ open ’ and allay end-user fears that it could one day be hijacked by an unscrupulous vendor and turned into a proprietary superset of interface characteristics . |
| 11 | Whitlock scrambled to his feet but by the time he reached the fence the gunman had already crossed the twenty-yard clearing and disappeared into a derelict warehouse . |
| 12 | Carefully she put her grey office suit on its hanger , bundled up her hair on the top of her head and climbed into a paint-spattered jumpsuit , firmly resisting any further speculation about the trip . |
| 13 | He flexed his hands like a conjuror and dived into a lower drawer in his desk . |
| 14 | There was another man behind Harvey who took off his jacket and slipped into a white coat . |
| 15 | He wandered around for a while and ran into a few of the household busy with their duties . |
| 16 | It overshot the runway and plunged into a 12 foot ditch after flying the five from their engineering firm in Chigwell , Essex . |
| 17 | With the briefest of intros emanating from somewhere in the swathe of dry ice , The Bunnymen arrived to polite applause and tore into a set devoid of any material dating back to the days of Ian McCulloch . |
| 18 | Then he became dopey and fell into a deep sleep that lasted for several hours . |
| 19 | The animal was so tame that it shinned up his leg and dived into a deep pocket . |
| 20 | The black creature which had been Meh'Lindi undogged the door and darted into a wide corridor , misty with smoke . |
| 21 | Through the gate and over the lumpy ground , and she opened the door and went into a long drill hall with a clacking wooden floor . |
| 22 | She supposed that they had needed each other after Seville and slid into a love-affair but now it had faded … |
| 23 | FORENSIC experts last night tore apart a house where a teenage girl was allegedly tortured before being doused with petrol and turned into a human torch . |
| 24 | She edged tentatively into the lee of the house to hide in a deep shadow and bumped into a broken rainwater pipe which smacked on to the concrete patio . |
| 25 | Sendei turned the final corner and emerged into a small circular space . |
| 26 | A day-trip from Phuket had only whetted our appetite and we had left that tourist ghetto by local bus and moved into a hot and grubby Chinese hotel in Phang Nga town . |
| 27 | He walked down the quay and turned into a narrow cobbled street , his head bent , and his hands buried in the pockets of his overcoat . |
| 28 | Damon Hill the home favourite took the lead from second place on the grid and roared into a commanding lead … |
| 29 | Later it may have declined to a local field access path in the thirteenth century , been re-aligned by enclosure commissioners in the eighteenth century and turned into a dual-carriage trunk road in this century . |
| 30 | Then she took a shower and changed into a cool sundress . |