Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason some of them failed to go to the causal ward is because they used to do a little bit of begging , and if they 'd got enough money they would perhaps pay to go into a common lodging house . |
| 2 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 3 | On some moorlands the chemicals which were washed down have solidified into a thin ‘ cement-like ’ layer , or iron pan . |
| 4 | ‘ We do not think it is possible to deny that there are circumstances in which individuals may justifiably choose to enter into a homosexual relationship ... [ although ] such a relationship could not be regarded as the moral or social equivalent of marriage . ' |
| 5 | He could scarcely have packed into a single letter more matter offensive to the ideals of the reformed papacy . |
| 6 | Evelyn let out a gasp of delight which she just managed to turn into a disillusioned sob . |
| 7 | The contrast in 1992 , when compared to 1991 , is that a big increase in income , £44m , did not get converted into a significant amount of cash in farmers pockets . |
| 8 | Chelsea might have won had the ball not kept turning into a Mexican bean at Kerry Dixon 's feet . |
| 9 | It was n't long , of course , before the superb ‘ draught excluder ’ thus created burst into a spectacular display of flames , which shot out across the room . |
| 10 | Since having to give-up a dolls-house as a small child to help her mother make ends meet , Rosemary Gardner has always yearned to walk into a little world of her own , now , 40+ years later , she has done just that ! |
| 11 | At this point , the family probably can not yet afford a high quality modern house , but for reasons of status it still decides to move into a sub-standard , ill-constructed house built with modern materials , a house that turns into an oven during the summer and generates demand for electrically-powered cooling devices . |
| 12 | He was later seen getting into a silver metallic car which was driven off in the direction of Cheyney Road . |
| 13 | In our view , routine casework unsupported by an active programme of service development would have been of little value and would probably have degenerated into a frustrating cycle of ‘ patch and mend ’ crisis management . |
| 14 | If nature had been modelled by man into productive commodities , man 's own subjectivity had also become reified into a self-identical instrument ; man had become an empty and passive consumer . |
| 15 | The club is also offering to enter into a legal agreement with Braintree to end overflying of villages , limit membership to 200 , keep full records and liaise regularly with local councillors . |
| 16 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 17 | Get a friend to raise the blade vertically upwards to simulate crashing into a hidden rock in the stopper . |
| 18 | He held his hands up and proclaimed : ‘ I do n't want to get into a big row over this and therefore I wo n't offend Woman 's Own Own and say they 're wrong . |
| 19 | People do n't like coming into a cigarette-filled church . |
| 20 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 21 | ‘ With hindsight , perhaps we should n't have gone into a peripheral business , ’ he concedes . |
| 22 | And as inner city expertise readily becomes transformed into a supplementary expertise on Black people , within months the same company was awarded a contract by the Department of Trade and Industry to evaluate the effects of inner city policy on British Black communities . |
| 23 | Social workers were given specific help in identifying their function to find ways to keep old people at home who might otherwise have gone into a residential home . |
| 24 | Although the total proportion of diagnoses seems to be rising , the rise is steepest in those who historically have fallen into a high risk group — that is , woman aged 35 and older . |
| 25 | Labour history too has developed into a recognizable historical research area and women 's history is following suit . |