Example sentences of "immediately [vb past] into " in BNC.

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1 Lord Graham , Labour chief whip in the Lords , said at the weekend : ‘ Even though he came to the Lords with no experience of the House of Commons , he immediately got into the swing of it and was quickly given authority by his colleagues .
2 She turned round , ready to scuttle back to the house , and immediately cannoned into a hard , warm body .
3 The words had come out with a distinct tang of broad Lancashire , but she immediately withdrew into her pseudo-Southern gentility .
4 TOMMY MORRISON defeated George Foreman on points to win the WBO heavyweight crown and immediately walked into a broadside from Britain 's Lennox Lewis .
5 Arctic sunsets can last many hours ; I once watched one sun take four hours to touch the sea , and then it immediately started into reverse and rose again .
6 She immediately fell into conversation with Jack as they waited to board the mini-bus that stood in the centre of the courtyard , ready to transport them to the Parc de Prafance with its famous forest of bamboo .
7 ‘ Betrothed ? ’ she managed , and immediately fell into a helpless fit of coughing which sent another stab of pain through her stomach .
8 Chapman immediately went into the lounge bar .
9 I immediately went into a steep turn to port to attack them again .
10 The Prime Minister , along with other members of the Cabinet and the leader of the opposition , Paias Wingti , immediately went into hiding .
11 ‘ Have you ever heard this , Master Clerk ? ’ and he immediately launched into poetry , quoting an old Scottish prophecy about England :
12 few would deny that the CMHTs almost immediately ran into problems due to the squeeze on local authority budgets and found themselves scrabbling around for alternative resources ;
13 Intending to spend two quiet days in Montreal on the way home I took a room in the Mount Royal Hotel there , and almost immediately ran into Pierre Leveque in the lobby .
14 But they immediately ran into criticism from the NRPB about how thorough the survey should be .
15 It immediately ran into trouble .
16 On Jan. 16 the round table talks immediately ran into problems when the UDF representatives accused the BCP of reneging on promises made during the preliminary discussions that the opposition would be allowed its own newspaper and access to state television and radio , and that a building would be handed over for use as a UDF headquarters .
17 The negotiators immediately ran into a problem : no-one on Louis 's and Charles 's side had a thorough knowledge of the whole " empire " ( totius imperii ) .
18 Tina immediately burst into noisy tears and ran off wailing ‘ Mom — she said that word to me again ! ’
19 He only had eyes for Mary , especially as she immediately burst into tears .
20 Both boys immediately burst into peals of embarrassed laughter , and Tam ran shamefaced to his father 's side and whispered loudly in his ear in French : " Kim has brought Lan 's gibbon , Papa !
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