Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that you choked and struggled into a sudden darkness of chloroform , then woke to pain that no ice-cream could mediate . |
| 2 | There she was squeezed chained , blindfolded and gagged into a coffin-shaped box , which was then slid into a wheelie-bin lying on its side , Richard Wakerley , QC , prosecuting , told Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 3 | She nodded and burst into a fresh flood of tears . |
| 4 | Keening by the side of the corpse , the professional nacarena still howled her tale of the deceased , spinning it out from scraps of information the family had told her , and then delivering it bound and knotted into a customary warp of praise and lamentation with the reassuring catch-phrases that were always used , to level the pleasant and the unpleasant , the cherished and the despised into a democracy of death , making each death absolutely regrettable , knitting up into the web of the dirge the separate individuals of the community . |
| 5 | The moment she hit one of the papers , she braked and went into a long skid , sliding right across the kitchen floor to the other wall , which she thumped into , still standing on her ‘ magic carpet ’ . |
| 6 | The theatres around the bar play out all the trifles of TV soap life , larger , its little pains domesticated , microwaved and packaged into a popular night out . |
| 7 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |
| 8 | And suddenly , in the midst of the turmoil , everything steadied and locked into a slow relentless rhythm . |