Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 2 | This bad feeling er lived on into old age . |
| 3 | Lived on into old age . |
| 4 | At this point , as often happened , his thoughts wandered off into irrelevant philosophical channels . |
| 5 | During this period the spit suffered erosion on its south-west facing portion , the shingle being transported round the Ness itself and built up into new ridges on the east-facing side , where the dominant waves come from an east or north-east direction . |
| 6 | The wipers began to wheeze as the snowflakes built up into hard wedges of ice , and some of the men in the back were stamping feet on the floor of the van trying to improve their circulation . |
| 7 | Picturesque ‘ yards ’ ( courtyards ) behind the shops all too often petered out into demolished nothingness , with scraps remaining of stone walls , closed workshops , industrial debris and boarded-up cabins . |
| 8 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 9 | There was a light in the next window and she drew back into deep shadow . |
| 10 | Sir Terence , in particular , is still furious that inflation bounced back into double figures , after all the pain of getting it below 5% in the mid-1980s , and ascribes it to the delay in joining the EMS . |
| 11 | In Ajdabiya ( where , additionally , the layout of houses was less elastic than in the south ) , the younger and educated sons of Musbah Ifkairin moved out into new houses nearby , leaving the eldest brother with their father . |
| 12 | It started life as a consultancy in parallel processing and then branched out into virtual reality , after seeing the potential of the technology . |
| 13 | Then I skidded and slanted through into Public Baths Surf . |
| 14 | As she drove home by all the familiar back roads that shortened the distance to Kileady , the shopping euphoria dropped down into black anxiety . |
| 15 | Later , she and Damian drove down into Central District to buy her engagement ring . |
| 16 | Many of the concepts of systems analysis , useful in management theory as well as in computer technology , spilled over into adjacent areas . |
| 17 | Although ‘ real ’ life was now so often only fantasy and incomplete memories , there were moments when people , events , sights and sounds came back into sudden , sharp focus . |
| 18 | At the top they came out into uncompromising , bright grey light , the bleak , hedgeless lane , the flat meadows where here and there stunted trees squatted like old men in cloaks . |
| 19 | Guy took the main road out of town , and then turned off into narrow , winding , leaf-fringed lanes until they were deep in the unique peace of the Cotswold countryside . |
| 20 | In accordance with my usual run of luck , I climbed up into thick mist , and being too lazy and smug to take a bearing I followed what seemed to be a well-worn path heading in the right direction for Beinn Dorain . |
| 21 | Investment trust money flowed back into blue chips such as Sony , Honda and Pioneer , but banks , financials and government bonds continued to slide . |
| 22 | Ashley gazed up into dark brown eyes which were sending intimate messages and telling her everything she had been longing to hear . |
| 23 | The cottage consists of the living space on the ground floor divided up into small rooms , with an attic store for beans , grain , potatoes etc . |
| 24 | Fortunately , journalist Brigid McConville was available to help tussle with the almost impossible task of distilling up to 1,000 pages of transcript and even more pages of documents into eight sides of pithy words , all of which were edited and made up into camera-ready artwork at the inquiry itself . |
| 25 | Modern critics were not good at Anglo-Saxon echoes , especially at ones which hung on into modern times in phrases like ‘ mock ’ and ‘ make ’ , ‘ chance ’ and ‘ choice ’ , ‘ bullet ’ and ‘ billet ’ , all mentioned already in this study . |
| 26 | At the same time , late nineteenth-century American petit-bourgeois music culture still retained ‘ progressive ’ elements , unlike its European equivalent , which by then was mostly intent on hedonistic quiescence ; and the active , energetic components of this anti-elitist , common-man tradition ( in vaudeville for example ) fed through into early Tin Pan Alley song where they formed an uneasy synthesis with the tendency to conservative mass-production stereotypes . |
| 27 | Beggars and bank managers squat side by side in a battered , broken office block , in a barn in the field next door and beneath sheets of plastic and bits of wood knocked up into makeshift shelters . |
| 28 | Her temper sprang back into vivid life as she all but shrieked the words back at him , her fingers unconsciously curling themselves into the fists she 'd dearly love to use on him . |
| 29 | She continued watching him for a moment , then stepped out into full view . |
| 30 | Robson swooped back into Premier League action for the first time since 6 December , but his 14-minute cameo appearance was not long enough for the rusty 36-year-old to re-charge a championship bid which is going rapidly flat . |