Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the developing countries that participated in the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) , the median age at which women aged 25 to 29 years at the time of interview first married or entered a union ( i.e. , the age at which one half of them entered into conjugal union ) ranged from 13.1 years in Bangladesh to 23.0 in Sri Lanka . |
| 2 | These proposals and many more formed the basis of legislation following the 1987 general election — as too did the model report from Dame Mary Warnock that I commissioned into human fertilization and embryology . |
| 3 | The way I got into national radio from local radio was listening to programmes and thinking , ‘ I could interview X , and I could get it into that programme , if I could do it in that format . ’ |
| 4 | In the course of time I moved into other , larger rooms ; the last had a splendid view of Windsor Castle . |
| 5 | Then I moved into worried . |
| 6 | Margaret 's mini was passed soaring up hills , so I changed into low gear and closed the windows so as not to be suffocated by diesel fumes . |
| 7 | I wandered into dusty , pungent shops selling live chickens , and dried snakes for rubbing into bruises . |
| 8 | I broke into violent tears at this point , I remember , and flew upstairs to turn out his drawers , looking for socks with holes in them . |
| 9 | I switched into listening mode : |
| 10 | So I went into Irish pubs . |
| 11 | I went into New Look and they had some lovely things in there this morning ! |
| 12 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 13 | Yolanda was a spotty , bespectacled girl from Barcelona who spent her time translating every word I said into Spanish for the benefit of Garcia , a missing-link anthropoid from one of your immediate neighbours . |
| 14 | She bumped into Eurythmic Dave Stewart in a cafe in Sunderland and was promptly signed to his Anxious record label . |
| 15 | After directing the Verity films , the company she and Sydney formed during the Second World War , she moved into independent feature production . |
| 16 | Curling up beneath the window she sank into gorgeous oblivion . |
| 17 | She entered into technical discussions with the shopkeepers in a way totally beyond the capacity of Owen and Mahmoud , explaining that while she normally wore only French perfume , she was considering experimenting with a combination of French and Arab scents : ‘ une vraie Cairéenne , n'est ce pas ? ’ |
| 18 | Feeling refreshed , she changed into pastel pink shorts and a baggy white sweater with matching pink motif . |
| 19 | She got it when she sailed into neighbouring Albania a week ago , the first British warship to visit the country for 54 years . |
| 20 | She dropped into agitated silence . |
| 21 | She retreated into clouded vision , only half-saw the Ventoux , the Vallauris potteries , the evening games of boules under the plane trees in the timeless village square . |
| 22 | Then as Mr Wishart was about to say ‘ Thank you ’ , to his surprise she vanished into thin air . |
| 23 | Wearing neither head-dress , veil nor jewellery — save the two rings — she stepped into soft shoes of blue leather embroidered with gold . |
| 24 | Kate found it difficult to keep her colour from rising under the enthusiastic appreciation she was being subjected to , and , to try and break the dangerous spell , she broke into provocative speech . |
| 25 | With a helpless sigh she stared into deep grey eyes that seemed to see too much . |
| 26 | She fell into deep sleep . |
| 27 | There were only a few weeks now before she went into dry dock . |
| 28 | With a hoarse cry she went into violent climax , her body possessed by the pulse that roared in her ears , her heart , her stomach , her thighs and made her limbs spasm and twist in ecstasy beneath him — no longer human , no longer conscious , no longer caring about anything except the dark flood of pleasure that rushed through her and shook her till she rattled and writhed to a hot , pulsing oblivion on his body . |
| 29 | In Emily Carew 's presence he was kind and polite and remarkably subdued , listening with infinite patience when she lapsed into wistful nostalgia as she recalled the days when Carewscourt was the centre of social activity in this part of Mayo . |
| 30 | She ran into other nearby shops looking for him and asking people if they 'd seen him . |