Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right then yeah , like I was saying I got into a massive argument with him last night I had an argument with Osman , right |
| 2 | I sank into a squashy chair not caring whether we were on fire or not , it had to get through the water first . |
| 3 | I bumped into a Dutch girl who excitedly told me that both she and myself had been chosen ! |
| 4 | There was n't any new town or anything and er they 'd built those er Council houses in the front in and he also erm , he said would I like a nice new house , to have plenty of hot water for the boys for bathing and everything , so I moved into a four bedroom and er I was there , er brought my family up there for , till er , unfortunately my mother came to live with me and unfortunately erm I had to go away erm because I was n't very well on a holiday and I was called back cos she was found dead on the toilet my poor mother and er after that erm I came back and erm , in the middle of the week from holiday , oh bother it will it be okay ? |
| 5 | When my mother separated from my father in April 1981 I wanted to afford my father the security of a home so I entered into a verbal agreement to allow him to stay in the house during his lifetime and described this as a life tenancy on form ‘ Stamps L(A)451 ’ . |
| 6 | I turned into a gentle left hand bend , saw a queue of cars ahead and hit the brake . |
| 7 | I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it . |
| 8 | ‘ If I walked into a Catholic school they 'd all look at me funny and shout ‘ Proddy ! ’ |
| 9 | About two-and-a-half years later I walked into a small clothes shop to see the celebrity holding court . |
| 10 | I do n't think I 'd want it in the house , it might be confusing if I walked into a gloomy room with it |
| 11 | I stepped into a cool , dark room , where heavy wooden shutters kept out most of the daylight . |
| 12 | Towards dawn I turn into a fat pale moth |
| 13 | Every time I go into a new archive I just ca n't believe what I 'm discovering . |
| 14 | If I put on a vacuum cleaner and lie beside it , I go into a complete trance because the one note ringing inside the machine seems to relax me and hypnotise me . |
| 15 | I went into a small room and handed my Service Pay Book to the Waaf Officer seated behind the desk , and I suppose we exchanged a few words . |
| 16 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 17 | I went into a full-blown eidetic trance . |
| 18 | My English travelling companion was game to try the dulse seaweed , which is a speciality in Ballycastle , so I went into a little shop on the seafront . |
| 19 | And while I was waiting for them I I went into a little shop and For some cigarettes , and er me brother y Oh younger brother , we 'd started him up er f he was a plumber . |
| 20 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 21 | I went into a steep decline . |
| 22 | After hours of fruitless searching , wandering through the attics and passages of the Shell , I drifted into a dim chamber filled with piles of what seemed junk somewhere above the north quire isle . |
| 23 | I felt exhausted when I climbed into bed and I fell into a deep sleep from which I awoke next morning refreshed and happier . |
| 24 | The first thing 1 demand when I move into a new office is one soft chair for myself and another for my visitors . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ she said , ‘ I sink into a grand black horror of depression , but I do n't cry so much then . |
| 26 | You know , the one where I retreat into a broad North Country accent which makes Su Pollard sound like a stockbroker , and start straining sycophantically and laughing before they 've finished the punchline … |
| 27 | But almost immediately I ran into a new danger . |
| 28 | I ran into a earlier on and it 's just opened again . |
| 29 | She explains that Thru is ‘ a text that is really constructing itself and then destroying itself as it goes along … whenever I slide into a realistic scene … something happens later to destroy it , to show that these are just words on a page ’ ( 4 ) . |
| 30 | I relapsed into a seeming normality . |