Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once ran into a 10-wheel timber-hauling lorry which , being only about 3 miles long , had momentarily escaped my notice . |
| 2 | ‘ I always go into a massive depression in November . |
| 3 | I look good in this , your standard little black number , and I still get into a tight pair of jeans … |
| 4 | I immediately went into a steep turn to port to attack them again . |
| 5 | In cold winter weather it develops a terminal misfire starting with a slight loss of power which slowly turns into a worsening , choking misfire eventually stopping the vehicle . |
| 6 | From here take the left hand fork which eventually merges into a surfaced minor road leading to the hamlet of Ings ( 3.5 miles ) on the main A591 . |
| 7 | Leonard had even met him briefly in 1949 , but this meeting at McGill was the one which quickly developed into a strong and mutual respect , a lifelong friendship . |
| 8 | His tongue tasted her , exploring with delicate strokes which gradually deepened into a passionate demand that blew her mind and exploded all her misconceptions of what a kiss could be . |
| 9 | DIRECTOR PAUL Verhoeven 's recurring nightmare starts as a hollow whisper : a child chorus of quiet , muffled cries which gradually build into a hideous concert of screams , induced by some blinding fireball of heat and light . |
| 10 | The moment was propitious , for on 19 April 1775 the first shots were fired , at Lexington in Massachusetts , in the rebellion of the American colonists , which rapidly developed into a full-scale war and led , on 4 July 1776 , to the new United States of America formally proclaiming their independence of Great Britain . |
| 11 | Unwelcome or not , sitting in the darkness , head in hands , there came a picture of the somersaulting St Tom which rapidly turned into a circular blur like a white spinning-top with red stripes … |
| 12 | He added : ‘ I am concerned at the whole idea of trying to whip up custom with a free deal which automatically converts into a pay-as-you-go service charged on your phone bill — unless you contract out . |
| 13 | This lies on top of a buttress cliff which forms the turning corner of the lake 's south shore , which here swings into a long south-pointing branch , the Urner See . |
| 14 | At large values of a , the chaotic solution returns directly to a single periodic solution , which then splits into a symmetric pair of solutions that undergo a period-doubling cascade back into chaos . |
| 15 | A further increase in b gives a return to a symmetric pair of periodic solutions that undergo period doubling into chaos , which then leads into a new periodic solution . |
| 16 | His or her patterns of sleep and wakefulness are determined by an intrinsic cyclical patterning of alternation of behavioural activity and sleep states , modulated by demands of hunger and thirst , which commonly resolves into a four-hour " day " by the end of the first month . |
| 17 | A question which remained obstinately hovering in her mind as she slowly slipped into a deep sleep . |
| 18 | THE parents of a boy who suddenly withdrew into a silent world have been sent a message of support from the Queen . |
| 19 | Right it is very easy to do you just get into a nice little plodding along |
| 20 | I can still see her as I first met her , a skinny , energetic schoolgirl with a flower in her shining black hair , who quickly grew into a beautiful woman and whose life became entwined with mine as together we triumphed over disease , over prejudice and even over war . |
| 21 | Exhausted and without much hope for the future , she gradually slipped into a permanent state of depression , which made life even more difficult for Josh , although neither of them realized this . |
| 22 | I 'd tell you like a shot if we ever got into a real jam . |
| 23 | However , using indirect criteria in this way is no more reliable : one simply falls into a different trap , because the item which stands in the ‘ same ’ meaning relation in different contexts to the lexical form being tested may itself be ambiguous . |
| 24 | We then move into a short period of dramatic play ( or " busy time " as it is sometimes called ) in which each of the groups go about their business , which they greatly enjoy — until frustrations begin to creep in . |
| 25 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 26 | ‘ They also broke into a similar car but appear to have lost interest in it when they realised it was a used model . |
| 27 | TV replays showed that Saunders went in with his foot raised and came down on Elliott 's leg as they both steamed into a full-blooded 50-50 clash . |
| 28 | They then went into a cold store and stole dozens of cartons of cream . |
| 29 | Well as I 've s as I 've said earlier , erm what we 're basically saying is that because these erm sites do not perform a greenbelt function and er they then fall into a white land situation , that that white land is a is an area of land that becomes er at the end of the plan period in two thousand and six , er they are areas which could be considered development . |
| 30 | He took it , and after turning restlessly for some time , he eventually fell into a deep , heavy sleep . |