Example sentences of "[v-ing] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the tracks was ‘ Jack 's Chicken Shack ’ , a Negro hangout that sold bootleg liquor after the county went dry around 1952 , and Sheffield began to grow more ashen and dusty , shrivelling into a near semblance of a ghost town . |
| 2 | The water swirled in over small pebbles , widening into a narrow , deep , fast-flowing stream ; shaded from sunlight by overhanging branches . |
| 3 | Laura Wyndham 's deep sapphire-blue eyes sparkled with amusement , her lips widening into a broad , wry smile as she entered the large living-room of the penthouse apartment . |
| 4 | The track dipped , weaving into a wooded hollow . |
| 5 | Travis stared at her , his expression gradually softening into a grudging admiration . |
| 6 | THE ACARD report on computer-aided design and manufacture gives two definitions of CAD : Computer-aided draughting : ‘ The use of a computer-based system for translating concepts or sketches into drawings suitable for use in manufacture , or for storing drawings or parts of drawings in a data bank to be available on call for modification , incorporating into a revised drawing , or as input to a subsequent manufacturing process . ’ |
| 7 | New prisons are likely to be made up of self-contained units holding 50–100 prisoners , with cells opening into a central area for staff observation . |
| 8 | ’ He glanced over his shoulder to where Calatin was trumpeting into a red spotted handkerchief . |
| 9 | He said he battled against the bottle by checking into a private clinic but started drinking as soon as he came out . |
| 10 | And to look at the colourful display of begonias , geraniums and fuchsias set against the trees and shrubs , the unusual rockery plants , the miniature acres in their raised beds , linked pools and waterfall , emptying into a small bog garden , and the greenhouse brimming with plants raised from cuttings and seed , you would think the Doughtys spend hours every day keeping it all in trim . |
| 11 | The scent was the first thing : it was like walking into a peach-canning factory . |
| 12 | He imagined this woman draped on Humphrey Bogart 's arm and walking into a seedy bar . |
| 13 | The housekeeper pushed Jennifer in the small of her back , and she found herself walking into a panelled room in which Lady Roscarrock sat in an ornately carved oak chair . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure , ’ said Blanche , launching into a genteel chat with the security man about his work and colleagues . |
| 15 | Biff was launching into a long , familiar complaint . |
| 16 | That is not to say brevity is yet a Kinnock hallmark ( ’ I 'll answer this briefly , ’ he told foreign correspondents on Friday before launching into a five-minute response ) . |
| 17 | Launching into a big spiel about the merits of Hammond organs and '60s rarities , he was greeted with baffled looks all round . |
| 18 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 19 | The four of them were just climbing into a long red two-seater sports car standing double-parked almost in the middle of the roadway . |
| 20 | To these reluctant Dutchmen the invasion was a liberation , and even the weather matched their joy ; the sun was climbing into a cloudless sky and beginning to burn of the mist which still clung in the leafy valleys . |
| 21 | It would n't be long , thought Robert grimly , before she , too , was climbing into a large , black linen bag . |
| 22 | brings the concepts farming and spelling into a related context . |
| 23 | At the hotel I paid him in cash with a bonus and sent him on his way , and was in time to see Filmer 's backview receding into a dark-looking bar as I walked into the big central hall lobby . |
| 24 | as if things were not bad enough without those little bastards turning up to torment us , ’ remarked one of the medics as he tried to pack a shell dressing into a large abdominal wound . |
| 25 | The American sat there , mouthed a few more obscenities before sinking into a deep sulk as he nursed his hurt pride . |
| 26 | It derives too from the emotional dynamic , the mood sinking into a black hole of a middle section with cries on the brass alternating with eerie undulating woodwind passages , and gradually being restored to serenity . |
| 27 | For if the environmental movement fails in its objectives , we risk sinking into a post-industrial Dark Age in which human interests will , once again , eclipse those of other species . |
| 28 | S'pose another pair of socks and one of them balaclava things would n't come amiss , he thought , sinking into a quiet reverie of jerseys and boots . |
| 29 | She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley . |
| 30 | The car , code-named Project R931 , will have the added bonus of slotting into a low insurance group , making it ideal for younger drivers . |