Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in .
2 Grant looks down into the dark waters .
3 After a cursory ‘ Ireland will be free , ’ the politician then adds with glee ‘ but what I really want to say is thank you mother , thank you father , thank you … ’ and heads off into the normal ‘ thank you auntie Doreen ’ award winner 's speech .
4 The car leaps forward , tears between two lorries and lurches back into the middle lane .
5 The fertilized egg is a narrow bottleneck which , during embryonic development , widens out into the trillions of cells of an adult elephant .
6 If instead of point charges we have a distributed space charge p ( x' , y' , z' ) then the sum in eqn ( 2.23 ) goes over into an integral :
7 The occasional use of such activism shades over into the regular use , the planned use , to the covert institutionalisation of extralegal power .
8 This , the Lower Limestone of 19th century surveyors , passes up into a thick sequence of sandstones and shales with thin limestones referred to as the Middle Limestone or ‘ Calp ’ .
9 Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth .
10 So at one extreme you 've got the explorer who simply goes off into the unknown .
11 These plate margins are of three types : ( 1 ) divergent , where crustal material moves apart , under the oceans by a process known as sea-floor spreading ; ( 2 ) convergent , where one plate plunges down into the underlying mantle ( also known as subduction zones ) ; ( 3 ) transform faults , where one plate slides laterally with respect to its neighbour , crust being here neither created ( 1 ) nor destroyed ( 2 ) ( Fig. 18.1 ) .
12 The agricultural past thus shows through into the urban present .
13 Myself ’ trips off into an extended Twin Peaks -ish slither of pacifying , blissful techno-tasting house .
14 A rough scramble alongside leads up into the upper reaches of the beck ; here is an untidy tumble of boulders fallen from the enclosing heights but there is one gem where , just above the waterfall , the stream slides smoothly over an immense slab of naked limestone .
15 You need to bring it to a place where God reaches out into the secret places of the soul .
16 And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far .
17 It publishes a monthly newsletter and a monthly Investors ' Handbook which builds up into a comprehensive reference manual covering all aspects of share investment .
18 Within a few hours a scum appears on top of the wort and this rapidly builds up into a great yellowy-brown crust as the yeast turns the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide .
19 The south side of the cut dips down into a beautiful hollow of vines , all but the lowest locations being ideally situated .
20 Along one of its sides the swastika meander breaks down into a confused key pattern .
21 Manure : Cow or horse manure can be composted and breaks down into an inoffensive material that is used as a compost base by a number of manufacturers .
22 It is the symbolic violence of the teenager on the terraces , which spills over into the odd affray with visiting gangs that is more typical than the premeditated violence of disturbed or habitually aggressive individuals , who see football as a kind of arena for serious assault with little risk of arrest .
23 Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board .
24 When the slow-moving potto is approached by an enemy , it curls up into a tight ball , clings on to its branch and lowers its head between its legs so that the back of its spiky neck is thrust towards the predator .
25 It opens up into a fantastic cavern , which glistens and sparkles as though lit by an invisible Light .
26 Although the path at this stage is packed solid with shuffling picnickers , it 's a beautiful little track , especially when it emerges from the gorge and opens up into a wide glen where the Allt Coire a' Mhail tumbles to the Water of Nevis via a narrow and dramatic waterfall .
27 But Liza ( with a ‘ Z ’ ) kicked the bad habits today her only addictions are cigarettes and caffeine and gets back into the old song-and-dance routine for Stepping Out , released on CIC Video on March 20 .
28 Follow the obvious path leading north along the ridge as the path opens out into a wide track .
29 Where the main dale leaves the National Park and opens out into the flatter farmland of the old North Riding is Wensley itself , now a tiny village compared to its bigger neighbour of Leyburn , a busy typical northern Dales town with its wide main street and broad pavements laid out for market stalls .
30 I walk through the lounge thinking something looks wrong somehow , then stop and stand still where the lounge opens out into the main terminal building , suddenly filled with horror and confusion ; it 's all too small and not shaped right !
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