Example sentences of "[adv prt] into an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 2 | Manure : Cow or horse manure can be composted and breaks down into an inoffensive material that is used as a compost base by a number of manufacturers . |
| 3 | The sludge is then separated off , and that is heated in tanks away from oxygen where anaerobic bacteria break the sludge down into an odourless substance and produce methane gas . |
| 4 | " They claimed that they ought to be [ treated as ] free coloni by birth , and that Deodadus the monk [ responsible for running the Mitry estate ] wanted unjustly to bend them down into an inferior service by force , and to afflict them . " |
| 5 | The shelter packs down into an attached stuff sack . |
| 6 | And instinctively she reached out her arms as if to circle his neck and draw him down into an imaginary embrace . |
| 7 | A door from the library led through into an oak-panelled room with tall mullioned windows . |
| 8 | Attempts to lower unemployment by means of a boost to monetary demand will work through into an increasing rate of inflation because of sticky prices and wages and increasing expectations of inflation ( i.e. there is an absence of a money illusion ) . |
| 9 | If instead of point charges we have a distributed space charge p ( x' , y' , z' ) then the sum in eqn ( 2.23 ) goes over into an integral : |
| 10 | Preindustrial aristocratic attitudes were carried over into an industrial age . |
| 11 | On Jan. 13 Azerbaijani anger boiled over into an anti-Armenian pogrom in Baku , when some 70,000 people at a rally in the city centre were told that an Armenian resident of the city had attacked two Azerbaijanis with an axe , killing one of them , when they came to evict him from his flat . |
| 12 | That wave will send gradual ripples through the market — but it will not be a tidal wave — to float house-owners carelessly upwards before tipping them over into an angry sea of debt . |
| 13 | Sylvie 's voice flew off into an upper register . |
| 14 | Then he , too , slipped off into an uneasy sleep , and strange , vivid dreams , in which Lieutenant Werner chased him down endless , war-torn and shattered streets , for ever . |
| 15 | But ten minutes later , as Frau Nordern was drifting off into an uneasy slumber , Herr Nordern was still at his desk , staring into the darkness , the end of his cigar glowing like a red warning signal as the snow drifted down on to Berlin , and his family , and the city , slept . |
| 16 | Morse was conscious that his mind was drifting off into an interesting avenue of thought , but also that he was drifting off to sleep , as well . |
| 17 | What I did in the circumstances was go off into an Ollieish riff about je ne sais quoi , keeping Stu achortle without waking the fair Gillian . |
| 18 | Myself ’ trips off into an extended Twin Peaks -ish slither of pacifying , blissful techno-tasting house . |
| 19 | Each of the 138 orders for vaccines studied was made up into an ordinary envelope that contained a Monitor Mark Time-Temperature Integrator Tag ( 3-M ) . |
| 20 | Later that century the Empire was finally split up into an eastern and a western part . |
| 21 | The Land share of turnover throughout Germany shall be divided up into an eastern component and a western component in such a way that the average share of turnover tax per inhabitant in the Länder of Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia amounts in 1991 to 55 per cent in 1992 to 6O per cent in 1993 to 65 per cent in 1994 to 7O per cent of the average share of turnover tax per inhabitant in the Länder of Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria , Bremen , Hesse , Hamburg , Lower Saxony , North Rhine-Westphalia , Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein . |
| 22 | And in the second version he introduces a three-dimensional hand not , as in the Velázquez with the fingers straight and limp , but drawn up into an uneasy gesture , that claws at her skirt rather than rests against it . |
| 23 | The Crabtree Minder 180 is a separate sensor that you can fit internally or externally , and can be wired up into an existing light fitting . |
| 24 | Hayward really came into his own on two Howlin' Wolf songs , and as Freddie King 's Love Her With a Feeling spiralled up into an overwhelming sonic orgasm , Clapton 's playing drew applause during a song for the first time . |
| 25 | For the rest , if it does blow up into an open accusation , he 'll have to come clean . |
| 26 | As she drove away her heart speeded up into an erratic , agitated rhythm . |
| 27 | Rohmer broke out into an immediate , drenching sweat . |
| 28 | After a short walk the road widened out into an elegant , sweeping avenue with tree-shaded sliproads on either side . |
| 29 | But he was evidently a man of powerful passions , and in the middle of his reading he broke out into an angry protest at the Council 's acquiescence in secular tyrannies in general , and at the lack of action in the case of Anselm in particular . |
| 30 | ‘ Elspeth ’ took her unbroken horse out into an open space . |