Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] into " in BNC.

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1 They had more or less drifted into a relationship , meeting at lectures , having the occasional meal together .
2 They sat in rows and watched television or simply stared into the distance .
3 In Carlist territory monasteries were restored : in liberal Spain they became farms , barracks , schools , ministries , or simply fell into ruins .
4 Each classroom is built of sticks and foliage and is either carefully camouflaged under trees or else dug into the sides of rocky hills .
5 He ignored this and leisurely got into his undershirt .
6 I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions .
7 The Forget-me-nots were billed as ‘ the smallest song and dance act ’ and eventually blossomed into a team of eight , fronted by Amy Knott .
8 Further , if Lawrence 's celebration of heterosexuality is dependent upon a repression of , a disavowal of , and a displacement on to , homosexuality , such passages are animated by a homoerotic desire consciously and artistically sublimated into heterosexuality .
9 But the idea germinated and slowly grew into an obsession .
10 Clutching a hot water bottle prepared by Mrs Knelle , I finally and thankfully snuggled into bed .
11 When I brought him the food he pushed it away and suddenly burst into tears all over again .
12 There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders .
13 Faced with mortgages charged at 15.4 per cent and higher , borrowers could n't afford to keep up their payments and so fell into arrears .
14 Nadir pressure was referenced to the prevailing midoesophageal body pressure in that second and so took into account changes of basal oesophagela body pressure produced by common cavity episodes .
15 I rolled and tossed and kept thinking of Mum , and only fell into a doze at dawn .
16 This china lived in the sideboard in the dining-room and only came into the kitchen to be warmed before a meal and washed up afterwards .
17 But this did not prevent the Dominicans from setting out that war could be justified as a means of restoring order in situations of political or social disharmony , for instance between territories ( here we see the beginnings of the idea of the territorial unit and the defence of its justifiable rights ) or between sovereign rulers and their vassals ( if the vassal chose to rebel against his lord and thus fell into a state of disobedience ) .
18 Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears .
19 Later on , I learned about tarot cards and ouija boards and just drifted into using these props , because they made it easier to see and feel these things . ’
20 The train started and soon plunged into the tunnel .
21 Mr. Mahmoud was not a satisfactory tenant and soon fell into arrears with the rent .
22 Five days before his death , he took to his bed and soon sank into a coma from which he never recovered and died on 1st August 1837 at the age of 41 .
23 He felt very sorry for himself , and finally went into a pub to find comfort in gin-and-water .
24 It had taken Christina a long time to grow accustomed to the nocturnal sounds of the tropics , but she loved them now , and finally fell into a deep sleep , lulled by the incessant chirping of crickets , wind rustling the huge traveller 's palm outside the bedroom window , and the Caribbean sea breaking gently on the shore .
25 She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away .
26 Anyway , she drove off at high speed , ignoring all senso unicos , and finally crashed into a bollard by the ospedale .
27 Aerobics instructor Jackie Harley said ‘ Yes ’ — and promptly burst into tears .
28 A distorted face appeared , and gradually congealed into human lineaments .
29 This technique was then adapted and refined by the more sophisticated cultures of the ancient world , and gradually evolved into what is arguably the most important and universal form of artistic and cultural expression in the East .
30 Women themselves are more and more socialized into the male interpretation of these female blood mysteries .
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