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 . |