Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan . |
| 2 | Tendrils from the two black shapes reached out to entwine with each other , pulling their cores closer together until , as Ace watched in amazement , they melded together into a single muscular column of flesh crowned with thorns . |
| 3 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 4 | His father 's laugh changed quickly into a prolonged cough . |
| 5 | He opened a door and I staggered gratefully into a sweet bovine warmth where a few shaggy little bullocks stood hock deep in straw . |
| 6 | Finally they helped me upstairs to a bedroom , and I sank gratefully into a warm , dry bed . |
| 7 | They both refused and Manningham poured-himself a large Scotch as Paula sank carefully into a vast armchair which enclosed her . |
| 8 | Mrs Frizzell stopped half-way into a bone-coloured skirt — bone had been last year 's fashionable colour , according to the Tollemarche Advent . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , we sailed straight into a terrible storm , which drove us many miles eastward . |
| 10 | He closed his legs and she came smoothly into a nice even gallop . |
| 11 | Charles dropped immediately into a deep sleep where lumbering Thurber cartoon figures with guns in their hands chased him through a landscape of pastel green , dotted with red flowers . |
| 12 | The wave spiralled forwards into a flawless but bone-crushing tube . |
| 13 | The door from the terrace led directly into a long , somewhat overfurnished salon , cool and dim after the heat and brightness outside , its deep window-sills shaded by closed shutters and crowded with knick-knacks . |
| 14 | As she passed through the lights she turned right into a small service road which ran alongside a few small shops . |
| 15 | Gradually the downward thrust of his naked loins became more urgent and uncontrolled , and in a final moment of spasm , his features spread and widened suddenly into a flattened mask . |
| 16 | Proud as a Masai tribeswoman , I glided back to where my car was n't and turned instantly into a small , twisted , carrot-topped fishwife . |
| 17 | The door opened straight into a cool wood-panelled living-room , which , though furnished with the most beautiful antiques , was comfortable and homely . |
| 18 | The car slewed sideways into a Pontiac travelling towards it . |
| 19 | Penry carried her carefully down a staircase which led straight into a large sitting-room . |
| 20 | Nucleons are either protons or neutrons , locked together into a boiling cauldron that is the nucleus . |
| 21 | They walked downstairs into a big room . |
| 22 | She dropped the keys into her bag and straightened up , a small cry escaping her as she walked straight into a large solid body . |
| 23 | A Troll stepped unwittingly into a steaming puddle and immediately began to dissolve . |
| 24 | It is rarely appreciated that in Bishop 's day , a Trifle was not a nursery pudding squashed anyhow into a common fruit bowl , but built up into a pyramid in an elegant stemmed glass compote dish . |
| 25 | Suddenly the plane pitched forwards into a steep dive . |
| 26 | He stumbled , and although he felt frantically with his crook for firm ground to steady himself and regain his balance , he pitched forward into a steep-sided dell , upon the edge of the moor . |
| 27 | Bouncing and bucking down the rough , uneven scrubland of the sloping ground beyond , it finally fetched up hard when it smashed head-on into a rocky outcrop . |
| 28 | Thereafter it evolved rapidly into a formidable force . |
| 29 | This phlegmonous gastritis evolved later into a chronic atrophic gastritis , which has frequently been reported as a symptom of Sjögren 's syndrome . |
| 30 | Luckily , he reacted in an instant and the Cessna pulled hard into a steep right hand turn . |