Example sentences of "[vb past] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Street lighting seeped into the tiny landing from an open door so at least some curtains were undrawn and he dare n't use the torch . |
| 2 | It seeped into the nearby River Lyd , and thousands of fish , insects and other wildlife died along a six mile stretch . |
| 3 | In his ‘ Small History of Photography ’ , Benjamin ( 1979a , p. 248 ) notes that in photography 's early mid-nineteenth-century days , ‘ the client ’ who came to be photographed was ‘ the member of a rising class equipped with an aura that seeped into the very folds of the man 's frock coat or floppy cravat ’ , but that the later ‘ imperialist bourgeoisie ’ lost its aura in its ‘ deepening degeneration ’ , its Jugendstil photos featuring a fashionable ‘ twilight ’ and a ‘ non-auratic pose ’ . |
| 4 | Salt from the floors of these buildings seeped into the surrounding sub-soil and was drawn up by capillary action through the stones and mortar of the church . |
| 5 | They charged into the other dressing rooms , gabbling as they started a quick change for another number . |
| 6 | With a whoop of exhileration , he charged into the shallow water . |
| 7 | When Edward III of England invaded France , John went to Philip 's aid and fought at the battle of Crecy where , as R.W. Seton-Watson describes it : ‘ giving the reins of his horse to two of his companions , and shouting the battle-cry of ‘ Prague' ’ , he charged into the thick of the fray and , blind as he was , soon went down fighting ( 26th August , 1346 ) . |
| 8 | Only America 's continuing desire for political and military hegemony — which erupted into the Korean war — saved the day by causing an increasing outflow of dollars . |
| 9 | Above the trees , a frieze of white smoke rose into the blue morning sky and hung unremarked under the sun , thickening a little . |
| 10 | He peered out of the window as the machine rose into the now-moonless night . |
| 11 | Once three night birds rose into the blue-black of the sky . |
| 12 | The howl of a wolf rose into the cold evening air of London . |
| 13 | I left the motorway system east of the centre of Birmingham and , with my map of the area open beside me , headed into the grey and depressing urban blight that lies to the south of the city or , rather , that lies all around the city . |
| 14 | After dark , working by compass , we headed into the desolate Scottish countryside , our rucksacks weighted with filled sandbags to get us used to travelling long arduous miles with heavy loads . |
| 15 | As we headed into the French village of Nouvion , immortalised in the BBC comedy series 'Allo 'Allo , we would surely find Rene and Edith Artois , Yvette and Mimi , Crabtree the gendarme , Michelle of the Resistance , Herr Flick and Helga . |
| 16 | Then he ventured into the middle kitchen where most of the food was kept . |
| 17 | There was no understanding here of my intentions in a body of work that ventured into the unfashionable field of Romanticism , an exaggeratedly retinal approach , at a time when Concept Art was the rage . |
| 18 | In October , Water & Ventilation in Salisbury ventured into the unknown world of telecanvassing . |
| 19 | As I moved into the small museum , a male chorus started singing over the sound system : Glory , glory , it 's a hell of a way to die … |
| 20 | He moved into the impenetrable gloom of the yard , one hand slipping inside his left hand pocket . |
| 21 | Her father moved into the marital bed , she and her husband moved downstairs . |
| 22 | And so Katherine moved into the spacious apartment on New York 's Upper East Side , overlooking Central Park and a stone 's throw from the Metropolitan Museum . |
| 23 | Donna , too , felt the hairs on the back of her neck rise as they moved into the right-hand gallery . |
| 24 | In June 1989 a team of investigators from the FBI moved into the Rocky Flats nuclear plant near Denver , Colorado , in order to determine whether employees had falsified clean air documents . |
| 25 | That night in the pub I did n't sit at the same table as the others but moved into the other bar with my pint and newspaper . |
| 26 | Quitting England , the two moved into the abandoned eighteenth-century château Castille in Provence which they renovated The pictures were Douglas 's and the furniture was mine ’ , says Richardson and in a few years , Cooper and Richardson made the place a private museum and shrine to Cubism and its creators , and where Picasso , Leger and Braque were frequent visitors . |
| 27 | As the ‘ kitchen sink ’ was replaced by ‘ Swinging London ’ , Schlesinger moved into the upper echelons with Darling ( 1965 ) , an attempt at a cynical morality tale about the society its director and writer ( Frederic Raphael ) seemed to relish . |
| 28 | There is never a situation in which there is simultaneously a demand from a marketplace which requires replacement sales of a commodity that it already has , as well as the basic growth which occurred as household after household abandoned gas and moved into the new form of lighting . |
| 29 | It is said that when Christie moved into the new mill he took the machinery with him and this must have included the scribbler and carder. with the " Devondale " piercing machine , the slubbing Billy and spinning Jennys . |
| 30 | But not before we moved into the new building . |