Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards dawn I turn into a fat pale moth |
| 2 | Every time I go into a new archive I just ca n't believe what I 'm discovering . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The first thing 1 demand when I move into a new office is one soft chair for myself and another for my visitors . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ she said , ‘ I sink into a grand black horror of depression , but I do n't cry so much then . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | We started everything from scratch , which is nice , because people get so stuck in their ways : you walk into a professional studio and things are always done in a certain way . |
| 9 | If you walk into a medieval parish church , the sight and feel of an old stone floor will immediately tell you that here is a church that has been spared the restorer 's hand . |
| 10 | You walk into a flagstone-floored hall with a triple arched screen . |
| 11 | 1 comb ( for moment when you look into a magnificent eighteenth-century 18′ x 18′ mirror and suddenly realise you 're letting the whole place down with your unkempt hair ) |
| 12 | I 'm sorry to disappoint prospective galactic tourists , but this scenario does n't work : If you jump into a black hole , you will get torn apart and crushed out of existence . |
| 13 | Certainly , for your first few flights , your left hand should be close to the release knob , so that you can release immediately if you get into a bad swing or a wing-tip goes onto the ground . |
| 14 | That was an extreme case , and unlikely to happen in England , unless you drive into a full-scale riot in one of the inner-city areas . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , you pay into a special investment fund — usually an Endowment Policy , arranged through an insurance company — which pays you a lump sum at the end of your mortgage term or on death , and you repay the capital out of this . |
| 16 | While high pay is not a myth , it is not as high as is generally supposed — but if you turn into a super advertising star , the sky 's the limit . |
| 17 | If you go into a real court there are n't lecterns . |
| 18 | Basically what happens when you start signing on is you go into a national unemployment computer , and that national unemployment computer will pick up , as long as you 've got the date of birth and the national insurance number , you can pick up when a person started signing o and where they 're signing , you then check with the local office to see what address they 're claiming from and what their claiming for and everything else . |
| 19 | After that you go into a big room and they look through your clothes and they ask you questions , then you have to pull your knickers down to your knees and do a twizzle , twist round , pull your pants up and put your dressing-gown back on . |
| 20 | If you lose your keys , or if someone steals your keys , or if you move into a new home and you do not know who may have spare keys change all the locks immediately . |
| 21 | The Lady of the Hearth can be invoked when you move into a new home . |
| 22 | Mrs Mitchell added : ‘ When you move into a new house you could reasonably expect all the locks to work . |
| 23 | that as you move into a new form of behaviour |
| 24 | Unless you fall into a frozen lake or get left on the mountainside overnight , this will not happen to you . |
| 25 | Next time you bite into a Chilean apple , spare a thought for the person who picked it . |
| 26 | We watched them get into a small carriage which took them off to their new residence . |
| 27 | All except ( 6 ) have an introductory adverbial clause or phrase providing a point of orientation before we launch into a main clause . |
| 28 | We launch into a little Talmudic logic-chopping of our own on the question of free will and responsibility when a dybbuk is in residence . |
| 29 | It is through literature that we grow into a particular kind of awareness of ourselves and — an inseparable corollary — of our manifold relations with each other and all that is not self , without which there is really not much ‘ self ’ to talk about . |
| 30 | The advantage of our body clock is that it improves the way in which we fit into a rhythmic environment ( this was considered in more detail in Chapter 8 ) . |