Example sentences of "[vb past] into a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings erupted into a towering inferno as the plane , carrying only four people , exploded on impact . |
| 2 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 3 | Reg Seekings , who came from No. 7 Commando , remembers an incident right at the beginning when they got fed up with erecting tents , that nearly erupted into a minor mutiny . |
| 4 | NEWCASTLE 'S Anglo-Italian Cup game against Ascoli erupted into a 22-man brawl by the touchline five minutes from time . |
| 5 | In the centre of the room , the light gathered into a curling ribbon and solidified , erupted into a rippling curtain of sparkles . |
| 6 | At the downstream end it rose into a little hump . |
| 7 | A ragged and halting procession made its way down the street , and the voices of the crowd rose into a single roar . |
| 8 | Then he thought he was being pampered , so he moved into a dirty hovel , ‘ where he lay on straw like a beast ’ . |
| 9 | MARK JAMES , the 39-year-old Ryder Cup player who seems to thrive in tournaments on exotic islands , yesterday moved into a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Tenerife Open . |
| 10 | Menzieshill moved into a challenging position by beating DW Clydesdale . |
| 11 | If the means themselves are changed , if the war moved into a total war phase , then of course the security of those states engaged in that contest is immediately threatened . |
| 12 | Bill Moran moved into a new development in Beaconsfield 2½ years ago . |
| 13 | A communication problem between a drawing office and a laboratory arose when the latter moved into a new building . |
| 14 | A communication problem between a drawing office and a laboratory arose when the latter moved into a new building . |
| 15 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 16 | Then a few months later he got a job with a trucking company , moved into a new house and eventually got married . |
| 17 | This is Kingsley Black and again he looks to use Collimore 's pace and he moved into a great position there Collimore . |
| 18 | A family who moved into a derelict house thirty years ago have been told they must move out so it can be demolished . |
| 19 | It recently moved into a huge building on Leipzigerstrasse that once housed Hermann Göring 's air ministry . |
| 20 | As we approached the ramshackle pier the Mantela stopped her engines , waited , then , as though changing gear , trembled into a slow approach . |
| 21 | His brows drew into a grim frown and immediately she wished the words unsaid as he dragged a hand wearily across his forehead . |
| 22 | Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round . |
| 23 | As soon as the lights were in their favour they turned left , and after a short distance he cut the engine and they drew into a wooden landing-stage . |
| 24 | I see in my mind the laughter of Ramakrishna transformed into a transcendent substance which echoes down the mystic roads . |
| 25 | The waste from kitchen sinks also discharged into an open gully frequently the same one as the waste pipe . |
| 26 | Two teenage boys were missing feared drowned after their car crashed into a swollen river at Duleek , County Louth . |
| 27 | On Nov. 5 , 33 people had died after a Soviet-built Chinese helicopter crashed into a crowded department store in Yuanyang , in Henan province . |
| 28 | During the pre-dawn beach landing — seen by millions on prime-time TV — one bunch of marines crashed into a waiting press team . |
| 29 | According to aviation officials the A-300 should have been 1,500 feet higher at the point where it crashed into a jagged mountain face . |
| 30 | One of them shaped like a mobile telephone crashed into a high voltage power line cutting off 500 homes . |