Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] into [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 An abandoned truck , its snout rammed into the steep bank of a cut , caused me a moment 's panic .
2 However , where a decision has been made to make redundancies and employees have been informed , the contingency crystallises into an actual liability .
3 ‘ Well , none of us has got enough money to go into a high-class nursing home — at least as far as I know — so of course the wind was up all of us .
4 I would guess quite a bit of money goes into the local economy .
5 The ramifications arising from an assault by a group of white police officers on black motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles on March 3 [ see p. 38091 ] grew throughout April as the case developed into a national symbol of general police conduct and institutionalized racism .
6 One day a subaltern got into a first-class railway carriage and found sitting there a ‘ coloured gentleman ’ .
7 Shadows merge into the snow ; the woodcut turns into a shadowy chalk drawing .
8 Another factor which can have quite a major bearing on your approach is whether your video is to be edited in camera , that is recorded in the final shot order , or post-production edited into a different shot order on a copy tape .
9 Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside .
10 There is increasingly a feeling that the larger the firm the better it can withstand recessionary periods and the more effectively it can compete with other firms ; and these two sentiments may succeed each other as , say , a regional grouping for mutual protection develops into a nationwide conglomerate for enhanced profits .
11 She had found an opportunity to creep into the large saloon at the front downstairs , where in the gloom created by the velvet curtains drawn across the windows she had seen that the large and ugly old-fashioned Queen Anne furniture was shrouded in sheets .
12 Like a lot of the French women , she was dressed to perfection , her straight dark hair coiled into an immaculate chignon at the back of her neck , her nail varnish perfectly matching her shade of lipstick .
13 Hampstead somewhere , he thought , and then he might take the opportunity to slip into the big library at Swiss Cottage …
14 In the afternoon they would don chamois gloves and make aimless ritual drives into the Green Belt , in-laws glumly ensconced in the back-seat , stopping at the side of an arterial road to circulate solemnly a vacuum flask .
15 Each entry goes into the Grand Draw , so the more monthly competitions you enter , the greater your chances of winning .
16 An hour after the French Dragoon Sergeant and his horse had been broken and flensed by the canister another cavalryman rode into the bright midsummer sunshine .
17 WELCOME BACK : Labour goes into the general election holding only one seat in the entire Central South Region .
18 To the extent that such approaches may suggest the desirability of changing over to a counter-force nuclear policy , they escape from the moral frying-pan of counter-city targeting into the strategic fire of counter-force , which has the twin disadvantages that it might put a premium on first strike and that it would in any case result in frightful civilian losses .
19 And if Little Chef goes into a real decline will you promise to ring me ? ’
20 The card fits into a free expansion slot on the motherboard .
21 Reptiles and amphibians use a three-chambered heart , where blood goes into a separate part of the atrium on its way to the muscles , but the blood on its way back empties into the same ventricle .
22 ‘ There are a significant number who think their vote goes into a national pool and do not appreciate how voting by constituencies works .
23 A third figure swam into the blue-green fan of the mirror .
24 Two teenage boys were missing feared drowned after their car crashed into a swollen river at Duleek , County Louth .
25 A mother and her two children had to have a hospital check up after their car crashed into the central reservation on the A19 .
26 Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round .
27 The lovebirds in her mind fused into a watching parrot , perhaps made by the metal leg .
28 Miles felt the confusion in his mind grow into a relentless horror .
29 His mouth curled into a dark smile .
30 His mouth curled into a slow smile that sent unease rippling through her just as swiftly as that sinking pebble had sent ripples chasing across the pond .
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