Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1974 the original lessee assigned the lease to the second defendant , a company , which duly entered into the required covenant directly with the landlord . |
| 2 | Though tired and weary , we impulsively dived into the cold sea , hoping the ever-curious seals would join us . |
| 3 | A thief just walked into the first floor office at Newman Lane industrial estate and then made off . |
| 4 | He took encore after encore until the thinning crowd finally disappeared into the dark autumn evening . |
| 5 | Faint noises from outside dwindled into the peaceful black chasm of sleep . |
| 6 | Agrippa toyed with the tassels on his robes whilst Benjamin just stared into the middle distance , lost in his own thoughts . |
| 7 | He just stared into the dreadful dark depths of the old female 's shelter waiting hopelessly for some sign that she was alive . |
| 8 | I mean nobody pinched it , it er actually just went into the general melting pot . |
| 9 | John Clarke of Swinden , for one , must have been a gentleman , with his income of £10 a year , yet his moveables were valued at no more than 30s. , with which he only just scraped into the top 20 per cent . |
| 10 | Thiercelin 's misgivings soon resolved into the sick certainty of a failure which for all he knew could already have cost another life . |
| 11 | And he just dived into the bloody office . |
| 12 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 13 | During 1642 the quarrel between King Charles I and parliament rapidly deteriorated into the Civil War . |
| 14 | It hardly fell into the same category as the calculated thuggery of the last Lions tour or the almost casual butt which recently reduced the Great Britain Rugby League team to 12 men . |
| 15 | Women themselves are more and more socialized into the male interpretation of these female blood mysteries . |
| 16 | A huge , icing-covered cake with a welcome-home message from airport staff greeted the plucky youngster on her arrival and she quickly tucked into the tasty treat — something that would have been impossible for her just a few months ago . |
| 17 | When this occurred we usually dived into the nearest tenement to hide . |
| 18 | With a friendly pat on his arm , she went off to join the dancing , and practically walked into the waiting Feargal . |
| 19 | Another practice fairly common in the sixteenth century , that of the " circular " embassy which visited a series of different states , negotiating with each in turn , also persisted into the first half of that which followed . |
| 20 | Joe handed the foaming mugs over the bar , and they both collapsed into the little wooden dining chairs set each side of the dying open fire . |
| 21 | The Liskeard Grammar School also survived into the nineteenth century but was described by Polwhele , early in the century , as ‘ … a low , mean edifice , bad without and worse within , the business of education … having been of late years , it seems , less understood at Liskeard . ’ |
| 22 | Frances Young was a university lecturer who later went into the Methodist Ministry . |
| 23 | Since ideals from these intellectual movements also filtered into the political movements for social democracy or evolutionary socialism it is not surprising that the functionalist style is closely associated with a socialist tendency . |
| 24 | The other crab , rather than being left homeless and therefore extremely vulnerable to predators , instantly jumped into the broken shell . |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard Co , which originally got into the erasable optical disk drive business with help from Sony Corp , has launched the C1716T 5.25″ multifunctional optical-disk drive that stores 1.3Gb of storage capacity on a single platter , double the capacity of the previous generation of 5.25″ drives . |
| 26 | McCallen had problems with the carburration and as a result he never really got into the final practice but unofficially he lapped at over 119 mph only three seconds behind the overall leader Carl Fogarty . |
| 27 | Here the answer must be found through small-scale sustainable business initiatives — difficult to foster without the huge scale of corporate funding so often avalanched into the developing world , but modestly emerging never the less . |
| 28 | Agnes now went into the back room and , after washing her hands in a bowl of water that stood on a bench , she dried them , then smoothed her hair back and adjusted the bow at the neck of her dress . |
| 29 | His horse , the reins loosely looped over an upright arm of rock , noisily nuzzled into the cropped turf . |
| 30 | He raised his hand as if to strike Frankie , who instinctively recoiled into the rough safety of his nanny s overcoat . |