Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't suppose you 'd care to go into a few details … a little extra payment for last night ? ’ |
| 2 | In six months her winnings , which had saved the firm , would have degenerated into a mere loan . |
| 3 | ‘ I was hoping it would have developed into a serious relationship , ’ he says , a line Best will recognise . |
| 4 | At best it seems , a national strike would have developed into a bitter war of attrition which the unions , with their meagre resources , could only have lost . |
| 5 | Although it is true that more people would have contracted serious illnesses of a type which have now been eradicated — especially tuberculosis , which struck large numbers of people ( women more frequently than men ) throughout the nineteenth century — very few people would have survived into a long and infirm old age ( Johansson , 1977 ) . |
| 6 | These different possible early states would have evolved into a whole family of different histories for the universe . |
| 7 | The detailed slower numbers work well , but I ca n't help feeling that the group would love to break into a stomping rocker more often . |