Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE parents of a boy who suddenly withdrew into a silent world have been sent a message of support from the Queen . |
| 2 | Bradford Northern8 WIGAN , whose mastery of the understatement off the field rivals total dominance on it , secured their third successive Stones Bitter Championship on Saturday in a performance which , after boiling over at the start , gently simmered into a nine-try rout . |
| 3 | Eleanor 's lips suddenly relaxed into a secretive smile . |
| 4 | From being a painfully shy , diffident recluse , he suddenly metamorphosed into a garrulous and sometimes painfully overbearing extrovert . |
| 5 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 6 | It had taken Christina a long time to grow accustomed to the nocturnal sounds of the tropics , but she loved them now , and finally fell into a deep sleep , lulled by the incessant chirping of crickets , wind rustling the huge traveller 's palm outside the bedroom window , and the Caribbean sea breaking gently on the shore . |
| 7 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 8 | Cilla Black once got into a shouting match at a charity show when she tried to cry up her beloved Thatcher and met with voluble consumer resistance . |
| 9 | I 'd tell you like a shot if we ever got into a real jam . |
| 10 | MARK JAMES , the 39-year-old Ryder Cup player who seems to thrive in tournaments on exotic islands , yesterday moved into a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Tenerife Open . |
| 11 | Unwelcome or not , sitting in the darkness , head in hands , there came a picture of the somersaulting St Tom which rapidly turned into a circular blur like a white spinning-top with red stripes … |
| 12 | Enkidu now dreamt that they had offended the gods so deeply that one of them must die , and he promptly declined into a fatal illness . |
| 13 | Leonard had even met him briefly in 1949 , but this meeting at McGill was the one which quickly developed into a strong and mutual respect , a lifelong friendship . |
| 14 | The moment was propitious , for on 19 April 1775 the first shots were fired , at Lexington in Massachusetts , in the rebellion of the American colonists , which rapidly developed into a full-scale war and led , on 4 July 1776 , to the new United States of America formally proclaiming their independence of Great Britain . |
| 15 | I can still see her as I first met her , a skinny , energetic schoolgirl with a flower in her shining black hair , who quickly grew into a beautiful woman and whose life became entwined with mine as together we triumphed over disease , over prejudice and even over war . |
| 16 | Exhausted and without much hope for the future , she gradually slipped into a permanent state of depression , which made life even more difficult for Josh , although neither of them realized this . |
| 17 | I once ran into a 10-wheel timber-hauling lorry which , being only about 3 miles long , had momentarily escaped my notice . |
| 18 | His tongue tasted her , exploring with delicate strokes which gradually deepened into a passionate demand that blew her mind and exploded all her misconceptions of what a kiss could be . |
| 19 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 20 | TV replays showed that Saunders went in with his foot raised and came down on Elliott 's leg as they both steamed into a full-blooded 50-50 clash . |
| 21 | Reg Seekings , who came from No. 7 Commando , remembers an incident right at the beginning when they got fed up with erecting tents , that nearly erupted into a minor mutiny . |
| 22 | ‘ They also broke into a similar car but appear to have lost interest in it when they realised it was a used model . |
| 23 | This later evolved into a thin lens , with designs on one or both faces . |
| 24 | The speaking-tube eventually evolved into a narrow horn , serving the same function — not allowing any sound to escape ( 8 ) . |
| 25 | The strategy that Freeman is following is similar to that of classical structuralism ( e.g. Lévi-Strauss 1963 ) now melded into a Lakoffian brand of cognitivism . |
| 26 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
| 27 | He took it , and after turning restlessly for some time , he eventually fell into a deep , heavy sleep . |
| 28 | That lady successfully went into a glass-fronted lift the next week armed with instructions on relaxation , deep breathing , and an index card with positive self-statements in her pocket . |
| 29 | She turned round , ready to scuttle back to the house , and immediately cannoned into a hard , warm body . |
| 30 | CHANCELLOR Kenneth Clarke today waded into a fresh Tory rift over public spending after delivering a broad hint that his November Budget will bring rises in indirect taxes . |