Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] into a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walk into a dance rehearsal as a well-adjusted 44-year-old woman holding on to my valiums and the hope that I 'm growing old gracefully , and I walk out a 19-year-old hooligan with purple hair extensions , leopard-skin cycling shorts , black lip-gloss and the word ‘ menopause ’ blocked out of my consciousness . |
| 2 | I climb into a taxi and head for Harvey Nichols to do some damage with the Barclaycard and the taxi driver tells me about his brother-in-law . |
| 3 | I climb into a cab outside 72 Market Street . |
| 4 | If I get into a structure , if I , if I start trying to learn it I 'm gon na do it all . |
| 5 | ‘ I usually only scrub the front tyre when I get into a turn too hot but this is how it goes : You 're in fourth gear and jetting down to this U-turn . |
| 6 | I get into a carriage and take Berlioz out of my briefcase . |
| 7 | That 's , that 's just like me that is , if I get into a rhythm and someone gives er , I can do it then , but if I just sit on a page , I think oh how do you do that ? |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I think when Charles starts on me , I lapse into a sort of prayer . |
| 9 | I 'm gon na make this work , I 'm not rushing into it , I 'm , I rush into a lot of things |
| 10 | I bump into a lot of people at conferences , so I have n't been able to write formally to thank you for the meeting because I do n't want anything on the record then |
| 11 | Every time I get the hang of an idea it suddenly turns into something different and I turn into a fool ! |
| 12 | He summed up his own fate in a brief description of life as one of football 's miscreants : ‘ If I go into a bar and have a lager shandy , ’ he said in 1984 , ‘ word goes back that I 'm knocking back bottles of champagne . |
| 13 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 14 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I go into a hairdresser 's hoping that a new me will emerge , ’ said Barbara Scott , a mother of three who works part-time . |
| 16 | Er I 'm going to step , sorry before I go into a bit more detail in your C on your er application form , three things will be decided here today Ron and that 's first of all whether you and I think that er is a lau a launch pad for you to earn erm er some good money |
| 17 | The ideal is for me to stop out here on me own because , if I go into a unit or something and stop , it 's quite easy to go straight back on the gear . |
| 18 | ‘ I think I go into a sort of visual hibernation . |
| 19 | ‘ It really is physically and mathematically impossible , ’ continues Professor James , ‘ to work out the implications of my needs whenever I go into a supermarket unless I happen to know my metabolic rate , what it means in terms of my food needs and how to calculate this information so that I can select the correct diet . ’ |
| 20 | Sometimes I go into a public-house and sit there with a glass of lemonade in my hand , eavesdropping , hoping to hear some treasonable conversation . |
| 21 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 22 | I go into a Salvation Army hostel right , and then that 's it , problem solved . |
| 23 | If I go into a house and it is turned off I get worried . |
| 24 | you 're always having a fag when I pull into a petrol station |
| 25 | I start browsing out of a sense of duty to begin with , and drench myself with showers of settled rainwater every time I reach into a bush . |
| 26 | I glide into a bar and out of harm . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't care if I dissolve into a puddle the minute the curtain comes down . |
| 28 | If you change into a leotard and exercise , young children will want to copy you and participate . |
| 29 | That is , if you introduce into a cell a protein molecule with a novel sequence of amino acids , the cell can not synthesize nucleic acid molecules with a base sequence coding for that protein . |
| 30 | You walk into a sewer , full of rats , and expect to come out nice and clean . |