Example sentences of "[vb past] into [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two had broken and egg-yolk oozed into the cracks of paving-stones . |
| 2 | Lead dripped into the centres of affection and hardened them , producing spasms of derangement ; then the nervous system learned to skirt the new obstacle , and Davide 's habitual mildness would return . |
| 3 | The unfortunate tragedy was a talking point in the district for several weeks but then slowly receded into the aeons of time . |
| 4 | The magical world of Darby O'Gill was shattered long ago when television came into the houses of Carrickfergus . |
| 5 | The City Flour Mills later came into the hands of Reynolds and Allen who had previously been working a number of other sites and had , since 1863 , been working Stratford Mills in Stroud . |
| 6 | The comparatively peaceful existence of Fromebridge was but a few short years from being shattered , for in 1760 the mill came into the hands of Joseph Fairthorne and his industrious partners , William and John Purnell . |
| 7 | There was little interest and once again it came into the hands of James Joiner . |
| 8 | It would seem that the books were not completed ; the drafts came into the hands of Sandys , who destroyed part of book VI because it was ‘ too papistical ’ . |
| 9 | In 1911 both came into the hands of Henry Haydn Jones ( 1863-1950 ) , for over 30 years the Liberal Member of Parliament for Merionethshire ( later Sir Haydn Jones ) . |
| 10 | Females choose to give birth to their one or two young in dens dug into the snow-drifts on mountainsides of places such as the Svalbard Islands , and often stay on the islands during the Arctic summer until the cubs are old enough to fend for themselves . |
| 11 | AN angler dug into the annals of history to win the right to search for bait . |
| 12 | One of them , in actual fact , got into the hands of Lindsay Kemp and Lindsay used to use the album as background for his mime work at his concerts . |
| 13 | While Joseph tearfully attended his father 's grave , and gazed into the reflections of Wallowa Lake , McLaughlin reported that the Nez Perce 's return there would be impractical . |
| 14 | A few grenades chucked into the crowds outside polling stations would have quickly spread panic . |
| 15 | That original Chiswick House was believed to have been built by Sir Edward Wardour but it later passed into the hands of Robert Carr , Earl of Somerset . |
| 16 | Fred cut into the pieces of meat with a vengeance , fighting the urge to shake the chattering Bessie Chandler by the scruff of her neck until she snuffed it . |
| 17 | Going for a second run , Lancashire 's captain was at full stretch as Alan Mullally 's return from long leg thudded into the gloves of wicketkeeper Paul Nixon who took off the bails . |
| 18 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 19 | On 19 September , the day after Alexander submitted the report to Diane Armstrong , director of NIH 's Office of Equal Opportunity , thieves broke into the offices of Alexander 's company , Drew Dawn & Associates of Silver Spring , Maryland , and stole the report along with the codes . |
| 20 | Raiders broke into the grounds of Stanton Harcourt Manor on Thursday night , the home of Sir Crispin Gascoigne . |
| 21 | French commanders were committed to wearying hunting operations , with bad maps and no help from the peasantry ; guerrilla screens thickened the fog of war ; important dispatches fell into the hands of Wellington 's intelligence officers . |
| 22 | Richard , the ‘ Lion Heart ’ , was crowned King Richard I , in September 1189 , and in his Crusade he conquered Cyprus and the city of Acre , advancing to within twelve miles of Jerusalem , but he fell out with other Christian princes on the Crusade and was shipwrecked during December 1192 , in the Adriatic , and fell into the hands of Emperor Henry II of Austria , who held him captive until he received a ransom of one hundred thousand pounds . |
| 23 | Between 1019 and 1023 , Champagne fell into the hands of Eudes II , the count of Blois and Chartres , who had a few years earlier annexed Sancerre . |
| 24 | Some of his papers fell into the hands of Seth Ward , Sir Justinian Isham , John Collins , and Herbert Thorndike [ qq.v. ] , but in 1646 Pell lamented that most of his papers had been ‘ unmathematically divided between sequestrators and creditors ’ . |
| 25 | They LIED after a report about the leak fell into the hands of Greenpeace . |
| 26 | Perhaps our wine fell into the hands of looters , though we were on the Pakistani side and Muslims are n't supposed to touch alcohol . ’ |
| 27 | If I could know that they fell into the hands of men of learning and curiosity , I should be more easy about them . |
| 28 | After clinching the Democratic presidential nomination last spring , Clinton 's campaign fell into the doldrums in June as independent Ross Perot climbed into the lead even without formally declaring his candidacy . |
| 29 | Nutty declined the offer , knowing that what disappeared into the depths of Gloria 's handbag was not likely to surface again in a hurry . |
| 30 | The London live scene was dead so like everyone else he drifted into the raves for excitement , and like everyone else it changed him . |