Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The 6ft carpet snake crept into Calan Lavender 's bed , wrapped its body around him and plunged in its fangs .
2 One by one , from about 5 April , their supplies depleted , badly damaged , often without masts and rigging , and with exhausted crews , Alberoni 's armada crept into any ports its captains could find .
3 Once Shamir had rejected this invitation , Peres entered into intensive negotiations in an attempt to achieve a majority .
4 In 1937 Sino-Japanese friction erupted into full-scale war , but even this failed to rally much more than token support for China in the West .
5 Members of certain ethnic and caste groups clustered into specific occupations .
6 She bought a successful suit for restitution of conjugal rights , expecting to move back to Neeld 's palatial house in Grosvenor Square , but , to spite her , Neeld moved into two rooms in a hotel .
7 Influential in child psychiatry for over thirty years , Kahn moved into that field from the excellent springboard of general practice .
8 Rizla waded into some plastic sheeting and resumed her second teething phase with it .
9 As the car moved into top gear , Julie turned to the still tense Barney .
10 And moments later the two met face to face — as their cars crashed into each other on a winding single-track road .
11 Meanwhile " the multitude " or " the mob " — this latter term came into common use at this period — were explicitly excluded from orthodox definitions of " the people " .
12 The two cars slammed into each other several times as they sped along a quiet tree-lined avenue before the youths finally forced her into a garden .
13 In the course of the fifteenth century all three offices came into lay hands , which held them , from mid-century , for life .
14 The speeding Audi and the Volvo slammed into each other with sufficient force to buckle the Audi 's grille and shatter both headlights .
15 Many traders , dockers and railwaymen came into these towns which grew rapidly at this time .
16 That means the abortive bid ate into combined profits to a total of £1.285m .
17 This major administrative reorganization threw into sharp focus the acute difficulties surrounding the management and financing of Advanced Further Education as a whole , not least the role of the local education authorities in the government of polytechnics and other colleges .
18 His face was ashen , and the flesh around his mouth drooped into grey folds .
19 As Ashley picked it up , her anxieties leapt into sudden life .
20 Intruders broke into British Fuel 's Romanby Road depot at Northallerton and stole the keys to four lorries and £25 cash .
21 In the end , with Charlie Parker angels wailing on the stable roof , and Santa crooning at the manger , the piece collapsed into high camp .
22 His screams broke into hysterical laughter .
23 Soon after wooden aircraft went into large scale production it began to be realized that a proportion of aircraft plywood was ungluable .
24 The industry went into rapid reverse .
25 ‘ Oh , ’ said Charles , as Bartlemas and O'Rourke went into new paroxysms of laughter .
26 The far side crust is thicker and therefore the basins gave rise to less weakening there , and consequently far less lava emerged into those basins than into those on the near side .
27 In fact , in the race , he and Ronnie bashed into each other on the sixth lap .
28 However , when Mr Hayden stood up and made to show the stranger the way , the figure melted into thin air , leaving the foreman completely mystified .
29 Taken by surprise and fear of the other the boy lost his balance and tumbled down the grassy bank towards the stranger but to the boy 's incredulous gaze the figure melted into thin air .
30 He spoke as the pound ran into fresh trouble despite a drop in inflation to 3.6 per cent — the lowest for four years .
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