Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [adv] [vb past] into [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He greeted me politely and we quickly got into conversation . |
| 2 | All he tried to do was relax and enjoy himself , ‘ and everything just fell into place . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Have you ever heard this , Master Clerk ? ’ and he immediately launched into poetry , quoting an old Scottish prophecy about England : |
| 4 | I picked up my knife and attempted to copy the old lady but I soon got into difficulty . |
| 5 | But they immediately ran into criticism from the NRPB about how thorough the survey should be . |
| 6 | The Derry republicans had organised a Release the Prisoners Committee in 1962 , but they then retired into obscurity until 1966 , when six members were arrested for taking part in an illegal Easter Rising commemoration . |
| 7 | Labourism influenced working-class intervention in the formal political sphere through the Labour Party , but it also reached into trade unionism and determined attitudes to alternative bodies of political thought such as toryism , Marxism and fascism . |
| 8 | But it quickly bloomed into passion . |
| 9 | Some obscure threat needled her ; Jezrael could n't stop worrying at it but it never burst into knowledge . |
| 10 | The American Express Company was founded in 1850 , primarily to carry mail , gold bullion and passengers , but it gradually moved into shipping and in the 1890s set up offices in Europe 's major ports handling freight bound for the United States . |