Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my right there is a sudden and implausible terrace of little bow-fronted villas from the early thirties , still waiting for this left-over country lane to grow up and get itself surfaced and turned into a bypass . |
| 2 | Before that you choked and struggled into a sudden darkness of chloroform , then woke to pain that no ice-cream could mediate . |
| 3 | One car skidded and crashed into a tree before the road was cleared . |
| 4 | Rincewind turned and looked into a pair of hairy nostrils . |
| 5 | A woman turned and ran into a cottage . |
| 6 | There she was squeezed chained , blindfolded and gagged into a coffin-shaped box , which was then slid into a wheelie-bin lying on its side , Richard Wakerley , QC , prosecuting , told Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 7 | She nodded and burst into a fresh flood of tears . |
| 8 | There was only a nurse to help untie and unbutton the morning 's fastenings before she undressed and climbed into a bed in the long , crowded dormitory . |
| 9 | Dangerfield swore and thrust into a dive . |
| 10 | Keening by the side of the corpse , the professional nacarena still howled her tale of the deceased , spinning it out from scraps of information the family had told her , and then delivering it bound and knotted into a customary warp of praise and lamentation with the reassuring catch-phrases that were always used , to level the pleasant and the unpleasant , the cherished and the despised into a democracy of death , making each death absolutely regrettable , knitting up into the web of the dirge the separate individuals of the community . |
| 11 | In the first part of this century a shepherd , returning from his upland pasture near Rennes-le-Chateaux , stumbled and fell into a fissure in the limestone escarpment , breaking his leg . |
| 12 | I says I sure of that and er I left and went and got into a row over it . |
| 13 | Her torso itched as it puffed up like a flightless bird 's , and her legs dwindled and divided into a clump of Cthulhoid tentacles . |
| 14 | These will then be transcribed and computered and built into a database which will contain several million words . |
| 15 | Out across the square , two men appeared and went into a doorway opposite . |
| 16 | The moment she hit one of the papers , she braked and went into a long skid , sliding right across the kitchen floor to the other wall , which she thumped into , still standing on her ‘ magic carpet ’ . |
| 17 | The theatres around the bar play out all the trifles of TV soap life , larger , its little pains domesticated , microwaved and packaged into a popular night out . |
| 18 | My breakfast is muesli with nuts and raisins , or two Weetabix three-quarters covered with skimmed milk , microwaved and stirred into a mush then covered with sugar . |
| 19 | ‘ Good , ’ he said and launched into a description of the gift of the Glory . |
| 20 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |
| 21 | And suddenly , in the midst of the turmoil , everything steadied and locked into a slow relentless rhythm . |