Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] into [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1974 the original lessee assigned the lease to the second defendant , a company , which duly entered into the required covenant directly with the landlord . |
| 2 | THE parents of a boy who suddenly withdrew into a silent world have been sent a message of support from the Queen . |
| 3 | Bradford Northern8 WIGAN , whose mastery of the understatement off the field rivals total dominance on it , secured their third successive Stones Bitter Championship on Saturday in a performance which , after boiling over at the start , gently simmered into a nine-try rout . |
| 4 | Eleanor 's lips suddenly relaxed into a secretive smile . |
| 5 | Though tired and weary , we impulsively dived into the cold sea , hoping the ever-curious seals would join us . |
| 6 | Mainly middle-aged women with their daughters , they all wore hats and gloves ; everyone seemed to know everyone else and the chattering and laughter only subsided into an expectant hush after the chief vendeuse had discreetly clapped her hands twice . |
| 7 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 8 | A thief just walked into the first floor office at Newman Lane industrial estate and then made off . |
| 9 | Life for Jack Rothera soon settled into an interesting routine and nothing untoward happened to disturb the smooth operation of his signal box . |
| 10 | It had taken Christina a long time to grow accustomed to the nocturnal sounds of the tropics , but she loved them now , and finally fell into a deep sleep , lulled by the incessant chirping of crickets , wind rustling the huge traveller 's palm outside the bedroom window , and the Caribbean sea breaking gently on the shore . |
| 11 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 12 | He took encore after encore until the thinning crowd finally disappeared into the dark autumn evening . |
| 13 | Agrippa toyed with the tassels on his robes whilst Benjamin just stared into the middle distance , lost in his own thoughts . |
| 14 | I mean nobody pinched it , it er actually just went into the general melting pot . |
| 15 | Thiercelin 's misgivings soon resolved into the sick certainty of a failure which for all he knew could already have cost another life . |
| 16 | And he just dived into the bloody office . |
| 17 | Cilla Black once got into a shouting match at a charity show when she tried to cry up her beloved Thatcher and met with voluble consumer resistance . |
| 18 | I 'd tell you like a shot if we ever got into a real jam . |
| 19 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 20 | MARK JAMES , the 39-year-old Ryder Cup player who seems to thrive in tournaments on exotic islands , yesterday moved into a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Tenerife Open . |
| 21 | During 1642 the quarrel between King Charles I and parliament rapidly deteriorated into the Civil War . |
| 22 | 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 … |
| 23 | Enkidu now dreamt that they had offended the gods so deeply that one of them must die , and he promptly declined into a fatal illness . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | MANCHESTER UNITED yesterday settled into an uneasy peace after a face-saving operation by which Martin Edwards and Michael Knighton mutually agreed to tear up the contract that would have sold the club to Knighton . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It hardly fell into the same category as the calculated thuggery of the last Lions tour or the almost casual butt which recently reduced the Great Britain Rugby League team to 12 men . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Women themselves are more and more socialized into the male interpretation of these female blood mysteries . |
| 30 | A huge , icing-covered cake with a welcome-home message from airport staff greeted the plucky youngster on her arrival and she quickly tucked into the tasty treat — something that would have been impossible for her just a few months ago . |