Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] into [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The castle 's end as a noble residence finally came in the late 17th century , and it was eventually given into state care in 1935 . |
2 | When the history of the church was being researched a footnote in an 18th century volume identified a drawing of some stained-glass panels which had long since fallen into disrepair and had been replaced by plain lights . |
3 | From her bedroom window she could see the mountain rising up in a steep and slippery slope above a deep quarry , which had once been worked for limestone but had long since fallen into disuse . |
4 | Then there are those , predominantly male workers , who are effectively coerced into retirement and sometimes early retirement by poor working conditions , ill-health , redundancy and unemployment ( Walker , 1985b ; Walker and Taylor , 1991 ) . |
5 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
6 | The eggs , which are often stuck to a plant , eventually hatch into larvae . |
7 | He provided Gordon with excellent feedback from the track and by now he rarely got into trouble on the circuit . |
8 | But Joseph does n't really understand that , and the changes he sees are bizarre and a little frightening — the furniture slowly turns into animals , objects are no longer what they seem . |
9 | Veteran campaigner Jack Johnston said : ‘ The survey was a terrible indictment in terms of local heritage and proof that the townlands would eventually fall into disuse . |
10 | Throughout prehistory they have formed great carpet-like layers , the so called stromatolites , like those found in Zimbabwe nearly three billion years ago , slowly calcifying into limestone . |
11 | Eliot , Evelyn Waugh , Tolkien , Virginia Woolf , Gertrude Stein , Harold Pinter , Sylvia Plath , Max Beerbohm , to name a haphazard miscellany , advance , hover uncertainly , or slowly fade into obscurity ? |
12 | Details of 53 schemes were collected , 51 already in use at the time of the review in 1983–4 and two of which were in their final stage of development and have since come into operation . |
13 | In each case , therefore , the agreement between the parties or the court order should be properly carried into effect by way of a conveyance , severance , transfer or declaration of trust , the form of which is the subject of this chapter . |
14 | The counsellor can play an important part in monitoring the quality , effectiveness and possible iatrogenic effects of medical treatment , and can do so without necessarily bringing into question medical authority or competence . |
15 | Medea 's aria with the children before the murder in Act 3 also promises a higher musical flight , only to fall into squareness . |
16 | Medea 's aria with the children before the murder in Act 3 also promises a higher musical flight , only to fall into squareness . |
17 | They were not only pressed into service , but were forced to become Muslims and to learn Turkish , and they were not allowed to marry . |
18 | There was still less appreciation of the problems encountered by youngsters old enough to go into lodgings . |
19 | Some parts of this common law have long fallen into disuse as having no contemporary relevance . |
20 | Her voice suddenly swooped into hysterics . |
21 | The state administration is itself highly differentiated into agencies responsible for different aspects of policy . |
22 | When customers unsurprisingly got into trouble , it obligingly increased its advances . |
23 | Since it is a non-democracy , dislike of the incumbent swiftly turns into rejection of the state itself . |
24 | Labour has been feeling its way since Major 's election , as if the corridor it was traversing was suddenly plunged into darkness . |
25 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
26 | This affected not only the fishermen ; all manner of townsfolk would be eagerly pressed into service with the onset of the mackerel or pilchard season . |
27 | Supposing that chefs and scullery lads are still alive , have n't fled , or are n't all pressed into service to boil up synthdiet for all those refugees . |
28 | The chance to convert a proposal long mooted into reality was too precious to let slip . |
29 | We then all got into taxis and we went off to the Coconut Grove at the top half of Regent Street where we spent until the small hours of the morning . |
30 | The people in the Tate house were victims of themselves because they had all fallen into sadism and masochism and recorded it on video-tape . |