Example sentences of "[vb pp] into a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father Poole 's mouth compressed into a thin hard line . |
| 2 | After the US invasion the Panamanian Defence Forces ( FDP ) had been remodelled into a new Public Force , currently numbering about 12,000 men . |
| 3 | In males , the frenular bristles are fused into a single stout structure which is normally held by a curved process from the subcostal vein of the fore wing as well . |
| 4 | The fetid stench of the darkened hut , the mind-dizzying rice alcohol , even Paul 's mocking laughter had all fused into a delicious composite memory now . |
| 5 | She blinked and the shape resolved into a broad stunted man with hands that almost touched his knees . |
| 6 | Was dropped into a disinfected gaping hole , discreetly , behind a locked door . |
| 7 | But it has now grown into a fully-fledged domestic cleaning agency covering an area from Stokesley to Middlesbrough . |
| 8 | He looked exactly the same except for his hair , which Hari had shaved off for his experiments and which had now grown into a furry black stubble through which the numbered segments of his skull could still be faintly perceived . |
| 9 | Mrs Fairfax is retired , and Adèle has grown into a charming young woman . |
| 10 | From its roots at MANsion House 9000 ( the initial emergency telephone line at St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London ) it has grown into a huge international movement with branches in 20 countries , most of which Varah , an inveterate traveller , has visited . |
| 11 | He had grown into a slim blond young man , slightly ashen from his long hospital hours , a little frenzied and erratic in his gestures which spoke of bouts of sleeplessness and an adrenaline-fuelled energy . |
| 12 | Baby loves her rustic life , another letter continued to the black and white sister in Caen : she 's grown into a fine healthy creature . |
| 13 | If she had n't come into the family … his family , would Matthew have turned out the way he was now , or would he have grown into a fine young man with a greater sense of responsibility towards his sister ? |
| 14 | He believed that all living forms can be related into a single developmental sequence . |
| 15 | The rules mean any child under three in the front seat of any vehicle will have to be strapped into a special restraining belt . |
| 16 | It had even been easy following them from the racecourse , as when I went out to where my driver had parked his car I had a clear view from a distance of Daffodil at the exit gate being spooned into a royal blue Rolls-Royce by Filmer and her chauffeur . |
| 17 | The earliest part of the castle is a gate-house tower , which was built in the earlier 15th century and absorbed into a rectangular three-storeyed tower house in the late 15th or early 16th century . |
| 18 | He had been sales director for the major British manufacturer and had left two or three years ago when they were absorbed into a large industrial conglomerate . |
| 19 | All parties had agreed that the remaining 30 per cent of forces would eventually be either dismantled or absorbed into a Cambodian national army . |
| 20 | The haphazard bureaucracy of the early Meiji years was reorganized into a formal bureaucratic hierarchy , its entry governed by examination . |
| 21 | When he was a few feet away , Mait 's features suddenly twisted into a malevolent burning-eyed glare , and he spat a single word at the man : ‘ Die ! ’ |
| 22 | His lips were twisted into a peculiar lop-sided smile . |
| 23 | Here , all the archaeological evidence and vague cropmarks from air pictures have been transferred into a three-dimensional working model with buildings , structures , fields , crops and roads . |
| 24 | She looked over the packed hall , from the front seat where sat Group Captain Peasmarsh and his Wing-Commanders , through the different grades , all merged into a dusty blue mass dotted with white blobs . |
| 25 | The barrage intensified : the explosions merged into a continuous crackling rumble of noise , the clifftop where Daak had stood was turned into a firework display of blinding flashes , and below it an avalanche of smoking rocks . |
| 26 | The KUBE is built into a simple black box whose front panel carries rotary controls for HF and LF Contour and push-buttons for Tape Monitor and Bypass EQ ( this switches the unit out of circuit , which can be helpful in making A-B comparisons during initial setting-up ) . |
| 27 | The various parts of its body strained towards each other and collected into a hairy spherical fragment balanced on three pipe-cleaner legs at the head of the table . |
| 28 | After 18 months of fundraising and campaigning , parents and helpers have now moved into a complete new centre . |
| 29 | The Ulster majority was humiliated and alarmed , but its immediate emotions were channelled into a two-day general strike and Peaceful protest rallies , one of which attracted 100,000 people . |
| 30 | Instead the need to do something is channelled into a single stark campaign . |