Example sentences of "[vb -s] into a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston , a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller 's first target . |
| 2 | Their walk is accompanied by the strident tones of jazz-style music which dissolves into a calypso as Peter enters the section of the school in which he teaches , leaving Kathie to walk on to her class . |
| 3 | Before the house it widens into a mere where hundreds of Canada geese gather . |
| 4 | Sadly , negative memories are often strongest and the recollection of adequate but unexceptional four and five-star hotels merges into a chintz and marble blur . |
| 5 | A man climbs into a machine and takes to the air and crosses the English Channel . |
| 6 | Gives her income and it 's balanced by her allowances and if you move not sufficient to , for the income to exceed that then at the same time it goes into a bank or building society you apply for them not to deduct income . |
| 7 | As each question is asked each team goes into a huddle and then writes down its answer . |
| 8 | As each question is asked each team goes into a huddle and then writes down its answer . |
| 9 | Section 3 covers the situation where the accused goes into a restaurant or petrol station intending to pay but leaves without doing do . |
| 10 | He goes into a restaurant and he says oh the waiter erm let me see the menu and he looks at the menu and said right , he said . |
| 11 | Following DPP v Ray , above , a person who goes into a restaurant and orders a meal implies that he has money to pay for the meal . |
| 12 | I go about in a wheelchair and someone who pushes it very often goes into a shop and says , ‘ Look here , you have bought rather a lot of things I think you had better give a cheque for them — now I ? I write the cheque out , dear , and you shall sign it . ’ |
| 13 | A man goes into a shop and says , ‘ Can I have Death Wish II , please ? ’ |
| 14 | Physics Nobel laureate Leon Lederman , told a recent science writers ' dinner : ‘ A guy goes into a store and says , in a loud voice : ‘ A dozen condoms please . ’ |
| 15 | He has fifteen seconds to do this , before the squeal turns into a screech and the alarm bell on the outside wall starts yammering . |
| 16 | Barbarina never finds the pin … an innocent recitative turns into a quarrel that is interrupted by the Countess … |
| 17 | Masturbation using your own woman in your imagination turns into a nightmare if these other thoughts intrude , and if you carry these thoughts all week and then allow her to visit , you may fail when talking to her to distinguish between reality and fantasy and ruin the visit for both of you . |
| 18 | The precocious actress , who was 16 at the time , played a young runaway whom Pitt 's character beats up , turns into a junkie and sells for sex . |
| 19 | ‘ As such , WACC 's Forum function fits into a niche and is recognised by global bodies such as IAMCR for its role in bringing the concepts of community , universal rights and ethics into the centre of communication research initiatives around the world . |
| 20 | In the Garden : Drawing the line at great design : Anna Pavord delves into a book that reveals the gardens architects have imagined could accompany their creations |
| 21 | An ‘ airlock ’ occurs when air gets into a pipe and prevents the flow of water . |
| 22 | But all that happens at the end is that he wakes up one morning , goes outside , gets into a balloon and takes off . ’ |
| 23 | The effect of jitter in a digital system is to reduce precision , clarity , stereo imagery and that curious and almost indefinable property normally described as ‘ timing ’ and which loosely translates into a feeling that the musicians are not all on the same wavelength . |
| 24 | A company enters into a sale and finance leaseback agreement with its pension fund , to sell the fund the company 's headquarters at its current fair market value and then lease it back on a 25 year finance lease . |
| 25 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 26 | When the male of the group dies , the biggest female in the harem quickly changes into a male and takes over the group . |
| 27 | He peers into a bar and instantly this reticulated gaze comes into play , falling over the assembled suits , so that each one is caught by their vent-gills in the appropriately sized mesh square , struggling to free themselves before the marketeers close in , wielding stunning Free Offers . |
| 28 | There was one good Carling Black Label ad — where a guy walks into a bar and asks for a pint of Carling Black Label and they say , ‘ I bet he drinks Carling Black Label ’ — but we did n't have to sit through all the others just to see that . |
| 29 | Right , three vam , a vampire walks into a pub and goes erm |
| 30 | If a person walks into a room and says ‘ bonjour ’ , our decoding process and actions will depend on whether we understand sufficient French to decode the message successfully and reply appropriately . |