Example sentences of "[v-ing] into [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll have to wait until 1993 to see German , French and Italian shops crowding into the high street . |
| 2 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 3 | She looked at her best as she ran laughing into the warm wind . |
| 4 | Across the tracks was ‘ Jack 's Chicken Shack ’ , a Negro hangout that sold bootleg liquor after the county went dry around 1952 , and Sheffield began to grow more ashen and dusty , shrivelling into a near semblance of a ghost town . |
| 5 | The track dipped , weaving into a wooded hollow . |
| 6 | Travis stared at her , his expression gradually softening into a grudging admiration . |
| 7 | THE ACARD report on computer-aided design and manufacture gives two definitions of CAD : Computer-aided draughting : ‘ The use of a computer-based system for translating concepts or sketches into drawings suitable for use in manufacture , or for storing drawings or parts of drawings in a data bank to be available on call for modification , incorporating into a revised drawing , or as input to a subsequent manufacturing process . ’ |
| 8 | New prisons are likely to be made up of self-contained units holding 50–100 prisoners , with cells opening into a central area for staff observation . |
| 9 | He said he battled against the bottle by checking into a private clinic but started drinking as soon as he came out . |
| 10 | Once his eyes became accustomed to the gloom he was able to make out the double curve of the banister as it snaked from the dark first-floor landing into the inky blackness of the main stairwell . |
| 11 | And to look at the colourful display of begonias , geraniums and fuchsias set against the trees and shrubs , the unusual rockery plants , the miniature acres in their raised beds , linked pools and waterfall , emptying into a small bog garden , and the greenhouse brimming with plants raised from cuttings and seed , you would think the Doughtys spend hours every day keeping it all in trim . |
| 12 | She began to landscape the fantasy garden in her mind and had soon forgotten about the slight ache in her hips that came from having her legs curled to one side , and the uncomfortable weave of the wickerwork pressing into the soft skin on the underside of her forearms . |
| 13 | OFF-THE-PEG IDEAS FOR TURNING A BLEAK EXPANSE OF PAVING INTO AN ATTRACTIVE CENTREPIECE |
| 14 | He postulates that such particles spend most of their time in a non-material or etheric state , momentarily leaping into the physical plane like a salmon leaping fleetingly into view above the water surface . |
| 15 | I felt like flinging my arms about , twirling , leaping into an aerial somersault and landing back on my feet again . |
| 16 | The scent was the first thing : it was like walking into a peach-canning factory . |
| 17 | He imagined this woman draped on Humphrey Bogart 's arm and walking into a seedy bar . |
| 18 | The housekeeper pushed Jennifer in the small of her back , and she found herself walking into a panelled room in which Lady Roscarrock sat in an ornately carved oak chair . |
| 19 | Until , that is , he realises what he has done , and feels cross with himself for walking into an emotional trap of his own unconscious devising . |
| 20 | ‘ I have a dress rehearsal the day before my match , walking into an empty arena . |
| 21 | On 30 April at the University of Minnesota , in Minneapolis , 14,000 people gathered in a baseball stadium to hear Eliot discourse on " The Frontiers of Criticism " : " I felt , " he said , " like a very small bull walking into an enormous arena . " |
| 22 | When I was ready , I started walking into the shallow water away from Blefuscu . |
| 23 | Weary unto death , listless and depressed , Morvael abdicated by walking into the sacred flame of Asuryan . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been away so long I felt a bit like the new boy walking into the old school when I arrived at the studio for Carry On Columbus , ’ he admits . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sure , ’ said Blanche , launching into a genteel chat with the security man about his work and colleagues . |
| 26 | That is not to say brevity is yet a Kinnock hallmark ( ’ I 'll answer this briefly , ’ he told foreign correspondents on Friday before launching into a five-minute response ) . |
| 27 | Launching into a big spiel about the merits of Hammond organs and '60s rarities , he was greeted with baffled looks all round . |
| 28 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 29 | Launching into the logical approach when someone has not had time or does not have the information to assess your credibility is unwise . |
| 30 | To these reluctant Dutchmen the invasion was a liberation , and even the weather matched their joy ; the sun was climbing into a cloudless sky and beginning to burn of the mist which still clung in the leafy valleys . |