Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] into [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At half-past five he leant closer to the window and strained to see into the flat opposite . |
| 2 | Councillor Mrs. B. Brereton promised to look into the appropriate portfolio . |
| 3 | Councillor Mrs. B. Brereton promised to look into the appropriate portfolio . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On Wednesday night , police were called to the town 's Webster Theatre when 1500 residents tried to cram into the 600 capacity hall and the meeting was abandoned in the interests of public safety . |
| 6 | He tried to get into the wrong car-park and was , inevitably , confronted by a Lord 's gateman who succeeded in making far from happy . |
| 7 | I tried to change into a different person — shorter hair , a moustache , quiet suits . |
| 8 | He drew a clear division between the " free " world and the Communist world , and made it equally clear that if the Soviet Union tried to expand into the free world the USA was prepared to act . |
| 9 | No matter how hard the Provincial champions tried to eat into the massive margin the worse it became for them . |
| 10 | tried to cuddle into a foetal position |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He seemed to turn into an old man before his time . ’ |
| 13 | Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along dark corridors and seemed to expand into the circular chamber . |
| 14 | He saw a shadow moving through the kitchen window , and half turned to break into a shambling run . |
| 15 | During Elizabeth I 's prosperous reign , houses and brick kilns doubled in number , fashions travelled and , despite the anti-papist atmosphere , classical decoration from Italy and elsewhere began to creep into the English house , first on porches , then over windows , until by the end of the Jacobean era , the slow transition of the English house from Gothic to classical had begun . |
| 16 | He began to scratch into the soft earth beside the body , until after a time his claws scraped against something smooth and firm . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His limbs began to disintegrate into a bubbling mass of fat , water and blood . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ You sit in the front row , ’ the guard informed Manescu as other members who had travelled in the cavalcade began to filter into the large room . |
| 21 | Now , in the privacy of the bedroom of his personal suite , swiftly and silently he began to change into the black clothing he wore when prowling the night for victims . |
| 22 | As kite rallies began to get into the full swing of a tightly packed annual diary of events from the early 1980s , so a new trend developed . |
| 23 | That winter Diana 's star began to move into the royal family 's orbit . |
| 24 | The goalless draw threatened to flare into an ugly row between several players after Luton 's teenage striker John Hartson appeared to be fouled . |
| 25 | We needed to leap into the advanced education of the future . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Mozart decided to enter into the prevailing spirit of the place . |
| 28 | Two of them managed to leap into the empty office as Jekub bowled past . |
| 29 | ‘ For Pete 's sake ! ’ he muttered moodily , and shoved his hands in his pockets and went to stare into the empty fireplace . |
| 30 | 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 . |