Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite a different situation when a grandchild came into the grandparent 's home through the death or desertion of one or both parents . |
| 2 | One day a subaltern got into a first-class railway carriage and found sitting there a ‘ coloured gentleman ’ . |
| 3 | The cottage has three downstairs rooms , including a kitchen built into the hillside . |
| 4 | A stick flew into the air . |
| 5 | It was merely a framework of broken , blonde walls , barely knee-high , like the shaft of a huge well , a shell withdrawn into a corner of the great room . |
| 6 | as if things were not bad enough without those little bastards turning up to torment us , ’ remarked one of the medics as he tried to pack a shell dressing into a large abdominal wound . |
| 7 | I tried to make him as comfortable as possible and with the assistance of a French Commando placed a shell dressing into the large wound in his back . |
| 8 | ‘ The crew had quite a struggle to get into the cabin . |
| 9 | To go into the ‘ night ’ betokens a willingness to go into the unknown . |
| 10 | When sufficient thermal energy is present in the system the vibrations can cause a segment to jump into a hole by co-operative bond rotation and a series of such jumps will enable the complete polymer chain eventually to change its position . |
| 11 | Our attention had been drawn initially by a hose snaking into the water and some bubbles rising from the depths . |
| 12 | Something high in a tree clinked sharply , over and over again like a coin thrown into a metal dish . |
| 13 | These up and down movements as the tip scans over the surface provide topographical information which a computer reassembles into an image of the sample . |
| 14 | The steam engine to turn the winding drum , located in a wooden engine-house behind the conduit and constructed above a boiler-house rebated into the earthwork supporting the upper part of the planes , was a twin-cylinder high pressure jet condensing type . |
| 15 | A disinfectant introduced into a mixed flora may kill only the gram positive types leaving the others to flourish in the absence of competition . |
| 16 | It appears that one Christmas a stockbroker searching for a present went into a pet shop in the Square Mile . |
| 17 | Robyn passes a cinema converted into a bingo hall , a church converted into a community centre , a Co-op converted into a Freezer Centre . |
| 18 | TRUCK HORROR : A truck smashed into a bus in Sao Paulo state , killing at least 33 people , Brazilian television reported . |
| 19 | Entry is from Adele Street opposite Motherwell Civic Centre , to North Lodge Avenue from which a lane leads into the reserve area itself . |
| 20 | But Lewis 's friends sensed , from this period onwards , something which had begun half as a tease hardening into an attitude . |
| 21 | In more general heraldic usage the word is applied to the bringing together of two or more sets of arms to form quarterings — this is to say a shield divided into a number of areas , each capable of carrying a complete coat of arms as a sign of familial bonding . |
| 22 | A layman venturing into the quantum world no doubt expects to encounter some fairly strange phenomena . |
| 23 | His entire oeuvre as a photographer fits into a period of 18 short years . |
| 24 | And I have seen them at the mid-day rest hour of twelve to one , I have seen a ploughman come into the stable , shake up the straw in the stall of his leading beast and lie down there and sleep . |
| 25 | The position of the contact is determined by a microprocessor built into the tablet which scans the top film in one direction while scanning the lower resistive film in the other . |
| 26 | The tall and helpful Saint Agostino stood surrounded by disasters , someone was attacked by a wolf , a child fell from a window , a horse fell into a ravine . |
| 27 | But when a horse crashes into a fence in an attempt to escape a hump-backed monster ( in reality , his owner carrying a sack of oats ) , small wonder that he is liable to be thought stupid . |
| 28 | He looked like a figure gazing into the mouth of hell , and she shook her head to rid herself of the image . |
| 29 | When the light went out , Rain had the suspicion they were not alone on the stairs , that someone was watching them , perhaps they actually passed close to a figure pressed into the shadows . |
| 30 | Preceded by a cloud of vaporised breath , a figure shuffled into the light spilling from the Hall . |