Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] into a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , while searching the many rooms for signs of the species Homo Sapiens , Daisy caught herself on a mystic spinning wheel and fell into a sleep so deep it would surely last for a hundred years ( zzzzzzzz ! — Ed ) . |
| 2 | When the chip is incorporated into a smart card and inserted into a mock up cash machine , the user only has to speak into a microphone to be recognized and given the cash . |
| 3 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 4 | But last night Livingstone tracked his Newton Aycliffe rival and surged into a winning lead 200 metres from the finish . |
| 5 | Madame then settled back in her seat and fell into a deep sleep for the rest of the journey , full of good food and wine , and liqueurs , while Ellie stared back out of the window and tried to make some sense of all that had just been said , and all that had just happened . |
| 6 | Once they start to hatch the emerging fry will be picked up in the parent 's mouth and deposited into a pre-dug pit , or under the edge of a rock . |
| 7 | I enjoyed my tea and glimpse into a way of life that would have been familiar to JTR . |
| 8 | She managed to disengage herself from this unwanted lover and ran into a house — which unfortunately turned out to be one of ill-repute . |
| 9 | An inquest heard how the coach swerved to avoid a car and crashed into a motorway bridge support . |
| 10 | As soon as they pass their driving test , they can get out of the supervised test car and hop into a two or three litre car and off they go down the road to possibly death and destruction . |
| 11 | The water was icy cold but she washed her arms up to the oxters , and then her face and her neck down to the top of the bodice ; after which she took off the rest of her underwear and got into a calico nightdress . |
| 12 | Fold the whipped cream into the custard and pour into a rigid polythene container . |
| 13 | React To Rhythm , Superreal , and Spooky are all a sophisticated hybrid of US and European influences , shot through with a dub sensibility and turned into a driving , expanded hypnodance sound . |
| 14 | He stared at her as she shed her shawl and sank into a chair . |
| 15 | Maggie glared at him but he bent again and locked the Porsche , pocketing the key and shrugging into a thick leather jacket . |
| 16 | Anthony Andrews , so often seen as the archetypal urbane Englishman , turns in a performance of immense depth and sympathy as Miller , who is accused of spying and cast into a barbarous prison camp . |
| 17 | She stared down at the frothing white surf that slid past the ship 's side and fell into a reverie in which imaginings of her future life became mixed with memories of past days at Ballingolin . |
| 18 | A stream comes down on the east side and disappears into a cave entrance admitting to a passage below the track where , on the west side , it is joined underground from an alternative pothole entrance . |
| 19 | He passed his arm over the guardrail and settled into a comfortable position . |
| 20 | Plucked from obscurity by US intelligence and groomed into a CIA asset over three decades , the general took no chances . |
| 21 | The action of the film was eclipsed by some of motor racing enthusiast McQueen 's off-screen dramas , setting his Savoy Hotel room alight while trying to prepare himself a hamburger , driving at speed into the hotel 's small forecourt and screeching into a U-turn — by hitting a large puddle on the way and drenching other guests — and overturning his car while racing , against the film studio 's orders , resulting in a cut lip , which mean rescheduling some scenes . |
| 22 | We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area . |
| 23 | All the doors were locked and bolted so I climbed out through the kitchen window and dropped into a bed of lavender . |
| 24 | Endill was taken to the main corridor and strapped into a pair of lead boots . |
| 25 | For example it was much easier to incorporate provision for credit accumulation and transfer into a new system , when it was being set up , then to superimpose it on an established system . |
| 26 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 27 | What had started out as a dramatic sea chase and developed into a running battle had fizzled out in a disappointing anti-climax . |
| 28 | The motion is detected by the gauge and translated into a pressure . |
| 29 | They expect to sell to a developer and move into a modern bungalow on 13 acres less than a mile away . |
| 30 | He started as a fast bowler and turned into a wonderful offspinner … |