Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] into a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day a subaltern got into a first-class railway carriage and found sitting there a ‘ coloured gentleman ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Two teenage boys were missing feared drowned after their car crashed into a swollen river at Duleek , County Louth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And bit by bit their lovemaking turned into a dry ritual which caused Rita no actual pain , only a lingering , grey regret . |
| 6 | What should have been a triumphant closing ceremony turned into an embarrassing muddle , so much so that Polish television switched to a football match . |
| 7 | The car turned into a narrow lane . |
| 8 | Then , when her legs were lifted on to the couch , the croak turned into a stilted scream as she cried , ‘ No ! |
| 9 | The horse broke into a furious gallop . |
| 10 | The second edition of GCE evolved into a new grammar , which we named A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language , published by Longman in 1985 . |
| 11 | When burned the clinker fell into a lower chamber where it was cooled by the upward stream of air entering the bottom of the kiln . |
| 12 | The Countess fell into a disapproving silence as a young and handsome British officer offered Lucille a low and evidently uncorseted bow . |
| 13 | David was driving to his country mansion in Halsall when his car somersaulted into a water-filled ditch . |
| 14 | Fighting continued into a second day , with the presidential palace again coming under fire from the air and from snipers , despite presidential assurances to the country that the situation was under control . |
| 15 | She was wearing a chestnut-brown sweater in fine wool belted into a black skirt which swung calf length above high-heeled boots . |
| 16 | Because they had so much more energy available to them , cyanobacteria exploded into a vast array of different forms . |
| 17 | One of them shaped like a mobile telephone crashed into a high voltage power line cutting off 500 homes . |
| 18 | THE British Hang Gliding Association is to investigate an accident in which a Wirral man 's hang glider crashed into an 11,000 volt cable on the Great Orme , at Llandudno . |
| 19 | Her cackle turned into a bronchial cough . |
| 20 | A few feet away the corridor opened into a new space . |
| 21 | ‘ The London Stock Exchange turned into a complete menagerie for an hour . |
| 22 | As the sun faded into a blood-red haze , Lieutenant Davis and his men finally sat down around a nest of campfires which a small detail had built earlier . |
| 23 | His own excursion into foreign fields was an unmitigated disaster when his Grand Bahamas Island Vacation Village collapsed into a financial mess before it had really got started , in 1950 . |
| 24 | An hour later , the Princess fell into a restful sleep , still holding tightly to Caroline 's hand . |
| 25 | The chuckle grew into a fully-fledged laugh . |
| 26 | Ellwood smiled ; the smile became a chuckle ; the chuckle grew into a brief laugh . |
| 27 | Earls Barton is a good example of the way that an open agricultural village grew into a flourishing footwear centre from small beginnings in the third quarter of the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | Yet when the girl grew into a young woman , she seemed unable to break free of her grandmother . |
| 29 | The guard opened a different door , and Bel and the cat went into a beautiful room with expensive , very old tables and chairs . |
| 30 | A beautiful girl went into a sweet shop and asked for a box of chocolates . |