Example sentences of "[vb base] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bonds between opposite bases form , sugar-phosphate bonds form , and the daughter molecules coil into double helices ( for diagram see pg . |
| 2 | Guinness slogans melt into everyday usage . |
| 3 | Once ashore they melt into Chinese neighbourhoods in New York , Los Angeles and San Francisco . |
| 4 | Comics , newspapers and nudes under half-lifted desks melt into elusive textbooks . |
| 5 | Drop corks , stones , shells , pieces of coal , wood and sponge into various depths of water . |
| 6 | She said there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called … bromeliads , I think , and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and once you know the world is full of things like that your life is never the same . ’ |
| 7 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 8 | It reproduces by releasing single-celled spores which drift off in the sea and grow into new plants . |
| 9 | Their upper jaws become hooked and their teeth grow into long fangs . |
| 10 | Cements are the crystals which grow into existing pore spaces . |
| 11 | Dickensian child victims grow into upright citizens if they grow up at all . |
| 12 | They grow into large bushes , then die as the tree canopy closes . |
| 13 | ‘ Nice little earners are even nicer when they grow into big earners , ’ said Sorrel philosophically . |
| 14 | Some grow into matted filaments and curds , others into thick leathery sheets . |
| 15 | They slip into inaccessible elitism . |
| 16 | Loads program into upper memory area . |
| 17 | Chloride contamination — caused when de-icing salts seep into concrete coverings — has cut the notional life of bridges from 120 to 20 years . |
| 18 | But apart from the ‘ big ’ occasion , Question Time and set-piece debates often descend into ya-boo situations . |
| 19 | Return along drive past points where it was joined earlier and descend into minor valley with pool on left , turning right onto another track as soon as drive starts to ascend again . |
| 20 | Tunnel and spiral patterns transform into parallel lines or stripes of neural activity ; lattice and cobweb hallucinations transform into regular networks , or lattices . |
| 21 | That scenario can be distinguished from another which may nevertheless overlap and converge with it : the necessary identifications of male bonding — ‘ I desire to be like you ’ — produce an intensity of admiration some of which just can not help but transform into deviant desire for , rather than just honourable imitation of , ‘ man 's ’ most significant other ( i.e. man ) . |
| 22 | Tunnel and spiral patterns transform into parallel lines or stripes of neural activity ; lattice and cobweb hallucinations transform into regular networks , or lattices . |
| 23 | It 's quite interesting when they get people to do this test erm , if they fit into certain categories , depending upon their job as well , it 's almost , it is strange , that you do get erm , say solicitors to do it . |
| 24 | Do you feel you fit into normal society ? |
| 25 | In other words , the more ’ everyday ’ a domain is , the more ’ everyday ’ its constituent words will be , and the more they fit into stereotypical patterns of usage that are quoted as examples in the dictionary definitions . |
| 26 | ‘ You know the main idea , the academic idea , is to understand where they fit into human society . |
| 27 | Once positioned , press into tight contact with the glass . |
| 28 | The method acknowledges that there are laws of organisation which ensure that trends coalesce into defined patterns . |
| 29 | Havis himself did most of the cockpit shots , and these are skilfully intercut into air-to-air shots of Concorde , including a beautiful head-on one ( used several times ) of the Great White Dart skimming the cloud-tops leaving a vortex of white in its high-speed wake . |
| 30 | I think it 's more erm if it 's it 's difficult to know exactly because people shift into different repertoires . |