Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [adv prt] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the variance , not the midspread , which is broken down into a fitted ( ‘ explained ’ ) and residual ( ‘ unexplained ’ ) component . |
| 2 | You 're heading off into a grand adventure , you might not want additional baggage . " |
| 3 | She was sinking down into a dream , aware only of the warmth of his body wrapped intimately against her own . |
| 4 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 5 | For we were seized up into a kind of ritual which seemed afterwards to have its formal cadences like a dance . |
| 6 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 7 | When it jerked to a stop they were led out into a narrow carpeted passage . |
| 8 | Rex followed Laura into the cab which was becoming their second home and they were driven off into A Night of Danger . |
| 9 | The circulating system wanders a little closer , deepens , is classified under a new title — a moderate tropical storm — and is given a name , Agnes perhaps , or Bob , an innocent , unassuming , rather cosy , old-fashioned sort of name that makes no connection in anybody 's mind with a swirling mass of warm air and piled clouds that is bearing down on the coast , thunder and lightning flickering from its belly , the waves beneath it being whipped up into a fury . |
| 10 | Now it 's blown up into a dispute between the two , with each side blaming the other for the lack of progress . |
| 11 | For extra style it is swept up into a French Pleat . |
| 12 | Pass a ray of sunlight through a glass prism ( as Isaac Newton did , as long ago as 1666 ) , and you will find that it is spread out into a rainbow band of colours , with red at one end and violet at the other . |
| 13 | The computer turns its interpretation of what is going on into a television picture — healthy tissue is coloured green , tumours show up red . |