Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pers pn] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |
| 2 | Again from Australia had come Sister May Kenny with her method of nursing the child incessantly in the arms , massaging the withering limbs and gently lowering them into warm water . |
| 3 | Coleridge was not only a willing listener to Southey 's ideas , but was soon developing them into grand and Utopian principles during long hours spent in Oxford ‘ disputing on metaphysical subjects ’ . |
| 4 | It is what children do quite naturally and in many under-developed countries people carry on doing it into old age . |
| 5 | It was normal practice to live at home with one 's parents until marriage ( and women who did not marry usually continued to live with parents , often supporting them into old age , see below ) . |
| 6 | Then I destroyed them , sometimes tearing them into little strips , sometimes burning them . |
| 7 | It is wiser to undertake this systematically by booking out copies of the originals from LIFESPAN and then reconstituting them into new modules as required . |