Example sentences of "i [vb past] [vb pp] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became assimilated into the gay community and my identity as a Black person sloughed off me . |
| 2 | In the end I got moved into a single cell : apparently a lot of this girl 's stuff went missing and she practically accused me . |
| 3 | I was one of her props though eventually I got moved into the backs because I was so good looking ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd popped into the chemist 's . |
| 5 | I 'd popped into the library to get a book renewed and when I left the college building I saw her walking along the road on her own . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd walked into the garden , over tough grass that was n't grass at all but rough , close-growing weed . |
| 7 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd got into the situation where I had a darkroom at home , the use of a studio in the West End and I was starting to suffer from severe guilt for not making full use of all these resources at my disposal . |
| 9 | But I suppose by then I 'd got into the habit of never mentioning her . ’ |
| 10 | I fingered Jo 's credit cards , which I 'd slipped into a trouser pocket . |
| 11 | I felt transformed into a person who was incapable of doing anything base or unloving . ’ |
| 12 | Some months earlier he , my step-mother and I had moved into a bungalow at 1122 Henleaze Avenue . |
| 13 | During the summer of 1979 I had moved into a collective house whose occupants were libertarian hippies , socialists , Christians and noisy heterosexual feminists . |
| 14 | And if I had turned into a handsome prince Gillian would probably have shown me — him — the door . |
| 15 | Could I ever again trust the being I had turned into a sort of god ? |
| 16 | I had stumbled into the fringes of a world where cynical and ruthless manipulation of other people was the norm , and where even violence and perhaps murder was used to achieve one 's ends . |
| 17 | I moved round behind his back , until I had seen into every part of the room . |
| 18 | The alternative had been revealed to me ; with magnificent hardihood , I had ventured into the Other Side ; was I to suffer the fate of the two Dutch explorers ? |
| 19 | I had also agreed to load up out of sight , though within easy walking distance , of villages — it would be as as if I had gone into the villages for supplies , but this way meant that I would n't attract anyone 's attention . |
| 20 | What use would it have been if I had gone into the lounge without something like that ? |
| 21 | So taken was I with this vision of perfect Iceland that I did not realise that I had walked into a skua colony , not , that is , until one fearless great skua hit me . |
| 22 | I knew then that I had walked into a situation from which there would be no escape . |
| 23 | So I soon turned away , regretting only the loss of the shiny new tenpenny piece which I had inserted into the coin box to avoid any irritating boop-boop-boop cutting in to what I had stupidly hoped would be an uplifting and wholly encouraging conversation about my work and prospects . |
| 24 | I had got into the habit of tensing up my left leg which I probably did , initially , when I had my accident . |
| 25 | I felt I had strayed into the workshop of a latter-day Anton von Leeuwenhoek , the pioneer microscopist who was noted for his high-performance single lenses . |
| 26 | Young Trotsky finished his printing and began to pack the copies I had stapled into an old US Army haversack . |
| 27 | He had gone there expecting ‘ to suffer the tedium of a few years living in the backveld , in order to make some very necessary repairs to the fortunes of myself and my small family ’ but found that ‘ against all expectations I had wandered into a bewilderingly interesting , exciting and varied World ’ . |
| 28 | I found myself hurrying ton , until I realized that I had no destination : I wondered how many people around me had fallen into the same trap . |