Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have argued elsewhere ( 1989 , pp. 169–71 ) , the temple functioned rather like a great medieval abbey , drawing and re-allocating large revenues from the surrounding area and thereby developing into a major centre of wealth and power . |
| 2 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 3 | The Forget-me-nots were billed as ‘ the smallest song and dance act ’ and eventually blossomed into a team of eight , fronted by Amy Knott . |
| 4 | The more structured the source of words , the more likely it is that the terms in the source will already be in a standard form ready for lifting wholesale and little modified into a thesaurus . |
| 5 | She had been adopted as a small child by the counsellor 's wife , now dead — so said my companion , adding that it was well known that she would marry Victor , and so come into a deal of money . |
| 6 | A cutting is simply a length of stem top growth — with some plants it is a soft-tissue tip , with others a more mature hard-wood section — which , when inserted into soil or a suitable growing medium , and sometimes helped and encouraged by the presence of artificial hormones , will fight for life by producing roots , and so grow into a new individual plant . |
| 7 | And after a number of false dawns , it seems the private insurance industry will shortly be able to offer some sort of long term care insurance product — if it succeeds conventional health and social services could be put out to tender , and perhaps turned into a commercial operation . |
| 8 | I rolled and tossed and kept thinking of Mum , and only fell into a doze at dawn . |
| 9 | Peristyle A large square or rectangular colonnaded space , open to the sky , and generally made into a garden with fountains and sculpture . |
| 10 | But this did not prevent the Dominicans from setting out that war could be justified as a means of restoring order in situations of political or social disharmony , for instance between territories ( here we see the beginnings of the idea of the territorial unit and the defence of its justifiable rights ) or between sovereign rulers and their vassals ( if the vassal chose to rebel against his lord and thus fell into a state of disobedience ) . |
| 11 | Five days before his death , he took to his bed and soon sank into a coma from which he never recovered and died on 1st August 1837 at the age of 41 . |
| 12 | He felt very sorry for himself , and finally went into a pub to find comfort in gin-and-water . |
| 13 | It had taken Christina a long time to grow accustomed to the nocturnal sounds of the tropics , but she loved them now , and finally fell into a deep sleep , lulled by the incessant chirping of crickets , wind rustling the huge traveller 's palm outside the bedroom window , and the Caribbean sea breaking gently on the shore . |
| 14 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 15 | And then it was chainsawed to a stump , split into planks , seasoned , cut again and finally curved into a chair arm . |
| 16 | Anyway , she drove off at high speed , ignoring all senso unicos , and finally crashed into a bollard by the ospedale . |
| 17 | A photo-electric cell converted the spot 's messages into electric signals , which were amplified and further converted into a display on a television viewing screen . |
| 18 | He ignored it and quickly stepped into a waiting official car . |
| 19 | THE long-overdue reform of Britain 's national health service ( NHS ) started on April 1st and quickly turned into a shouting-match . |
| 20 | I mean if he keels over and like goes into a coma then I 'm all then I 'm allowed to say what was wrong with him but I mean yeah he did do |
| 21 | The focal point is the château of Auvers-sur-Oise , built in the Italianate manner in 1635 for Zannoby Liony , banker to Maria de' Medici and her court , and later transformed into a French-style residence . |
| 22 | In the centre was Biisk , an ostrog on the Biya river , built in 1718 and later enlarged into a fortress , while at the opposite end lay Ust-Kamenogorsk , established in 1720 . |
| 23 | Frick hated being contradicted and often flew into a rage when put in such a position . |
| 24 | Greenidge and Lloyd top-scored as West Indies declared at 251 for 9 , and then Holding , Roberts and Holder , restricted MCC to 197 , only Gilliat , the captain , having a substantial knock , and Amiss ducking into a bouncer which left him with four stitches in his scalp . |
| 25 | If your business creates flyers , brochures , catalogues , price lists or anything that involves the combination of text , graphics , illustrations and even photographs into a single document you will need page makeup software . |
| 26 | It will be remembered that during the last 30 years of life the King had suffered from a distressing illness that resulted in his being kept under guard and even put into a straight-jacket : if he had said anything about the origin of the instrument it is unlikely that much weight would be given to his words . |
| 27 | TOMMY MORRISON defeated George Foreman on points to win the WBO heavyweight crown and immediately walked into a broadside from Britain 's Lennox Lewis . |
| 28 | ‘ Betrothed ? ’ she managed , and immediately fell into a helpless fit of coughing which sent another stab of pain through her stomach . |
| 29 | She turned round , ready to scuttle back to the house , and immediately cannoned into a hard , warm body . |
| 30 | I traversed delicately into it and then swung into a frighteningly wide bridge . |