Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] into a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh God , I would 've crawled into a hole for the rest of my life . |
| 2 | But he could not have guessed that , almost fifty years later , Eliot would be loaded with honours and with happiness while he himself would have retreated into a silence of guilt and despair . |
| 3 | She remembered how huge she had thought the Longhills ' kitchen on her arrival in Nordale , and reckoned that it would have fitted into a corner of this one . |
| 4 | He would have to move into a school where the powerful names were still Bethune-Baker ( though he was retired ) and Marsh and Raven and he would be , intellectually speaking , up against it in a way that he was not at Durham . |
| 5 | It was not the quantity of stars that was so impressive , though if there had been more they would have blended into a whitewash , nor was it their brilliance , though they were a dazzling variation of colour and size , but that they seemed alive . |
| 6 | In Por Tanssie , no one would have marched into a room uninvited in case the person inside was in a state of undress . |
| 7 | But I discerned that she was a pretty child , one who would have grown into a beauty had she been allowed the opportunity to age . |
| 8 | But for the help of a friend who sleeps in the bungalow at night , and who can help her go to the toilet if she needs to , she says she would have to go into a home . |
| 9 | Any other time , McEnroe would have exploded into a torrent of abuse , but this time he just walked away . |
| 10 | Is there anybody who would risk breaking into a house with a burglar alarm ? |