Example sentences of "[vb pp] over into [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A " feeling of knowing " sometimes accompanies an aspect of the dream which is carried over into wakefulness ( for instance the certainty that I could fly when I had my flying dream ) .
2 To check whether the relative emphases in the programme get carried over into government priorities , we can count the sentences devoted to each topic and see if these relate over time to spending in various areas .
3 In fact , school is an institution which has little meaning for ‘ the lads ’ : it has merely to be ‘ got through ’ as enjoyably as possible — by ‘ having a laff ’ and rehearsing the loyalties and possibilities for defiance and resistance which will be carried over into work .
4 An example is the idea that multiplying a number always makes it bigger — an idea correctly acquired from experience with whole numbers , but commonly carried over into work with decimal or fractional numbers less than one , where it causes widespread error .
5 The war had required a high degree of economic planning , much of which was carried over into peacetime .
6 A coalition government was formed in May 1915 , continued under Lloyd George in December 1916 , and carried over into peacetime in 1918 .
7 Differences in lifetime economic and employment status are carried over into retirement through private asset ownership , and these differences have possibly not diminished significantly .
8 Guibert of Nogent , a distinguished raconteur , was in the city on 26 April , the day on which the burghers ' resentment boiled over into rebellion , and left this account of events :
9 Anger welled up in Juliet , and boiled over into words she never meant to say .
10 The impact of the big price appears to have spilled over into Sotheby 's yesterday where a Timurid brass jug inlaid with gold and silver , dating from 1495-96 , was bid to £60,500 against an estimate of £8,000 to £12,000 .
11 She found herself half listening to his gossip , her mind drifting away to Piers and Nicole , wondering whether the day they were spending together had spilled over into night , and whether her husband suspected anything about what was between them .
12 Sadly this latter process , desirable as it might be to stem the antics of a few irresponsible councils , has spilled over into Local Government generally with the unfortunate effect that many responsible authorities have been greatly frustrated in their legitimate desire to provide adequate services in their area .
13 After the fighting had spilled over into Thailand , Thai forces responded with helicopter and fighter-bomber attacks against Khun Sa 's soldiers .
14 When she had aimed the bottle at Gazzer 's head , years of pent-up hurt and frustration had spilled over into violence : violence which she had previously directed against herself or had lived through only in her mind .
15 Now the political consequences have spilled over into Belorussia , and especially into the Gomel area , the part of Belorussia nearest Chernobyl .
16 Around 3,000 Kuwaiti families were reported to have crossed over into Saudi Arabia on the first day , and many of them confirmed reports of widespread killing and looting by Iraqi forces .
17 Others , notably Mr Forster , have tried to elevate a personal aesthetic or mystique into a moral theory , and often it has wobbled over into sentimentality .
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