Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the song finished she grabbed her cousin and the two of them sank into a heap on the floor , hiding their faces and giggling . |
| 2 | He and I got into a bit of a squabble . |
| 3 | We separated , and as soon as I got into a side street , I went down it and there at the bottom was Cuttle 's Bakehouse . |
| 4 | I got into a mess with the reins when I was turning and Prince began to reverse towards the edge of the ghyll by the side of the field , which had a sharp drop . |
| 5 | Then I got into a phone-box and made a reverse charges call to Auntie Jean , who was drunk and abusive as usual . |
| 6 | I got into a band when I was 13 playing melodic punk . |
| 7 | In the fifties I got into a set of about a dozen or so gay men in South London . |
| 8 | I got into a fight with a man whose IQ was so low , it took him ten minutes to say ‘ press wanker ’ . |
| 9 | This is very embarrassing but last night I got into a bit of a state about not hearing from you for so long and I 'm afraid I sent you a completely mad letter which I … |
| 10 | All right then yeah , like I was saying I got into a massive argument with him last night I had an argument with Osman , right |
| 11 | I sank into a squashy chair not caring whether we were on fire or not , it had to get through the water first . |
| 12 | I sank into a kind of Romantic melancholy , which I could feed and sustain by reading Keats , Shelley , Tennyson , Matthew Arnold , and ( above all ) Byron . |
| 13 | I sank into a stupor . |
| 14 | Per , at No. 20 with How Do You Do , reveals : ‘ I bumped into a chambermaid as I tried to get back in . |
| 15 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 16 | And there , while I was feeling my way along , I bumped into a pair of human knees . |
| 17 | I bumped into a Dutch girl who excitedly told me that both she and myself had been chosen ! |
| 18 | Then I went to work in another factory as a machinist and I moved into a room with the child . |
| 19 | Really , I moved into a building site and tried to make a life while work was in progress ! |
| 20 | There was n't any new town or anything and er they 'd built those er Council houses in the front in and he also erm , he said would I like a nice new house , to have plenty of hot water for the boys for bathing and everything , so I moved into a four bedroom and er I was there , er brought my family up there for , till er , unfortunately my mother came to live with me and unfortunately erm I had to go away erm because I was n't very well on a holiday and I was called back cos she was found dead on the toilet my poor mother and er after that erm I came back and erm , in the middle of the week from holiday , oh bother it will it be okay ? |
| 21 | I changed into a dress . |
| 22 | I plugged into a Zoom and everyone said , ‘ It 's just a reference guitar so let's focus on the drums . ’ |
| 23 | When my mother separated from my father in April 1981 I wanted to afford my father the security of a home so I entered into a verbal agreement to allow him to stay in the house during his lifetime and described this as a life tenancy on form ‘ Stamps L(A)451 ’ . |
| 24 | I sauntered into a pie shop and carefully scrutinised the handbill which declared its distributor to be a foreigner : Jean Pierre Ralemberg , from Dijon , with a dwelling and warehouse in an alley off Bread Street . |
| 25 | It was probably some arrangement of S– and R — 's , but whenever I came into a room where they were , they trickled out ! |
| 26 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 27 | To do so I drove into a petrol station by the BBC Television Centre in order to do a U-turn . |
| 28 | When the exorcism was carried out , and Gittel and her husband left the district a few weeks later , I dropped into a kind of daze . |
| 29 | There were some splendid Cotswold-stone outbuildings and these I turned into a retirement cottage years later for the elderly Bassetts . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's about the time I turned into a pig ! ’ he said . |