Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 2 | He ca n't help it : Do you want me to go into the other room ? |
| 3 | Get yourself twelve songs — and have them transposed into the right key , for God 's sake . |
| 4 | The cats knock the garbage cans over and last week someone got into the front hall and smashed the mirror and the door . |
| 5 | I got into the rear seat and the colonel closed the door . |
| 6 | He seemed disappointed and I soon saw why when I got into the main hall . |
| 7 | In my small way , because I felt that the whole business had been handled most unsatisfactorily by Baldwin and exploited by others , including the Archbishop of Canterbury , I plunged into the resulting controversy . |
| 8 | Incidentally , Liza , guess who I bumped into the other day walking down Piccadilly . ’ |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 11 | I wandered into the wholesale office of a big tobacco factory , and found myself in a dark panelled Victorian world of snuff counters , old polished scales for weighing out ounces of baccy and a snug with settle chairs . |
| 12 | I sneaked into the main dealing room and found a heating vent near the skirting-board at one end which I could unscrew and look as if I was doing something professional . |
| 13 | It 's his age that is against him , but he 's helped me a great deal since I came into the Irish squad . ’ |
| 14 | It was only 5.30 pm when I came into the main hospital building , but a cheeky nurse said ‘ Bon soir , Miss Veness , parlez-vous Francaise ? |
| 15 | I walk into the terminal thinking , Well , at least there is n't that smell of sewage around you sometimes get when you arrive in dear old Embra ; I 'm not sure I could handle that right now . |
| 16 | As I drove into the underground car park of Pretty , Keen , Bastards , the garageman looked |
| 17 | Instead , I bought a number of computer magazines which I read into the small hours each night . |
| 18 | It began to rain , so I dodged into the Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart . |
| 19 | ‘ I climbed into the little turret down from the Bird . |
| 20 | As I pass into the cool , dappled light , the deep silence of the wood surrounds me . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As usual I popped into the second-hand bookshops and , as usual , failed to find any old golf books of any interest . |
| 23 | Whilst other girls arrest their make-up in mid-slither down their faces , I stare into the foggy mirror . |
| 24 | The topmost foliage is taller than me and the growth is so dense I can not be seen from the lawn as I dig into the muddy trench which forms an oasis round the stem . |
| 25 | I collapsed into the front seat — I 'm not a good backseat driver — and tried to harness my heartbeat . |
| 26 | This is why , by mistake one evening , I stumbled into the wrong accommodation and upon a honeymoon couple . |
| 27 | Most days , I worked into the early hours , leaving little time to spend with Joan . |
| 28 | I whistle into the bright morning , feeling at one with the world . |
| 29 | I clipped into the top peg and swung around in tides of feelings below the bulge . |
| 30 | The various newspapers reported the bride as being anywhere between 30 and 70 minutes late : someone fell into the Grand Canal , but there were four different versions of who it was ; estimates of photographers present in the church ranged from 50 to 250 , and guests from 250 to 600 . |