Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] into a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ACCESS HATCH ’ , she read embossed into a transparent panel , and , in smaller letters underneath , ‘ IN EMERGENCY , ENTER CODE 398 . ’ |
| 2 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |
| 3 | I tried to change into a different person — shorter hair , a moustache , quiet suits . |
| 4 | tried to cuddle into a foetal position |
| 5 | In the end I got moved into a single cell : apparently a lot of this girl 's stuff went missing and she practically accused me . |
| 6 | It also put an end to any enjoyment of the meal , because Marguerite seemed to sink into a gloomy silence that worried Jenna far more than it did Alain . |
| 7 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 8 | And then came the night his whole world had collapsed , the night he 'd got into a drunken brawl in a harbour side bar and punched a major in the mouth . |
| 9 | Chilly as it was , it was nothing compared to the day little Rizla came kicking into a snowy world of white . |
| 10 | It was as if he 'd gone into a different world . ’ |
| 11 | With no food and only a couple of bottles of Lucozade in the car , she knew that if the delay lasted much longer , her blood glucose could fall to such a dangerously low level , that she risked slipping into a diabetic coma . |
| 12 | He saw a shadow moving through the kitchen window , and half turned to break into a shambling run . |
| 13 | Sometimes I think I was intended to be an only child , and got born into a large family by a mistake . |
| 14 | His head was swimming and he began to drift into a drunken doze but the sense of a new presence in the stall made him open his eyes again . |
| 15 | His limbs began to disintegrate into a bubbling mass of fat , water and blood . |
| 16 | Fire engines were called by neighbours to Spencer Beck House , Middlesbrough , which threatened to turn into a towering inferno after Peter Crook and Martin Davies set fire to a ground floor flat . |
| 17 | Dyson swung left into a main road , looking over his shoulder to watch out for traffic from the right , and drove over the edge of the kerb . |
| 18 | Her face became set into a sober expression as she sat between Matt and one of the guides . |
| 19 | It was while I was in this slough of despond that my publisher rang to ask if I would like to read a manuscript that needed transforming into a readable book before it could be published . |
| 20 | I started getting into a heavy scene though , y'know , building up a debt , like . |
| 21 | The atmosphere remained fraught , and though he may have secretly relished the animation it gave to things , he needed to settle into a quiet routine if he was going to produce good work . |
| 22 | BACK IN Britain , the fashionably reactionary History Man , by Malcolm Bradbury , managed to tap into a rich vein of fading radicalism and shifting sexual politics with its raunchy tale of a shag-mental sociology lecturer Howard Kirk ( Anthony Sher ) working his way through the University of Watermouth ( in real life , Warwick ) and falling foul of authority . |
| 23 | Evelyn let out a gasp of delight which she just managed to turn into a disillusioned sob . |
| 24 | The dumpy woman went bustling into a large stone flagged kitchen where a great fire flamed in an open fireplace and the smell of roasting meat rose from a thick flank of beef on a spit . |
| 25 | Punch served a stint in the newsroom but failed to develop into a news-hungry reporter . |
| 26 | But these reforms failed to coalesce into a coherent system because there was no prevailing political doctrine which could provide answers to such questions as , how much power or influence should the House of Commons exercise or how far is it — desirable to have some democratic control over local and regional administration ? |
| 27 | But oddly enough , this failed to translate into a blistering network performance . |
| 28 | The builders , overcome by the tragic outcome of their vast conception , had devolved into a shelled race who spent their nomadic existence migrating from one fragment of the sphere to another , living in the ruins of their once great cities and seeing the cosmos as a gigantic jigsaw puzzle being slowly assembled by God . |
| 29 | He had stumbled into a deep peat hole , hidden by heather , and worse , the heather had closed above his head , hiding where he had fallen . |
| 30 | Instead , they had stumbled into a veritable snake pit . ) |