Example sentences of "i [vb past] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right then yeah , like I was saying I got into a massive argument with him last night I had an argument with Osman , right |
| 2 | I sank into a squashy chair not caring whether we were on fire or not , it had to get through the water first . |
| 3 | I sank into an exquisite passivity staring ahead as dazzling colours flushed and flew , metamorphosing into duck elephant cat dog house . |
| 4 | I bumped into a Dutch girl who excitedly told me that both she and myself had been chosen ! |
| 5 | There was n't any new town or anything and er they 'd built those er Council houses in the front in and he also erm , he said would I like a nice new house , to have plenty of hot water for the boys for bathing and everything , so I moved into a four bedroom and er I was there , er brought my family up there for , till er , unfortunately my mother came to live with me and unfortunately erm I had to go away erm because I was n't very well on a holiday and I was called back cos she was found dead on the toilet my poor mother and er after that erm I came back and erm , in the middle of the week from holiday , oh bother it will it be okay ? |
| 6 | When my mother separated from my father in April 1981 I wanted to afford my father the security of a home so I entered into a verbal agreement to allow him to stay in the house during his lifetime and described this as a life tenancy on form ‘ Stamps L(A)451 ’ . |
| 7 | I turned into a gentle left hand bend , saw a queue of cars ahead and hit the brake . |
| 8 | I was nurturing this comforting thought when I turned into a large assembly room with numbered doors leading from it . |
| 9 | ‘ If I walked into a Catholic school they 'd all look at me funny and shout ‘ Proddy ! ’ |
| 10 | About two-and-a-half years later I walked into a small clothes shop to see the celebrity holding court . |
| 11 | I do n't think I 'd want it in the house , it might be confusing if I walked into a gloomy room with it |
| 12 | I stepped into a cool , dark room , where heavy wooden shutters kept out most of the daylight . |
| 13 | I went into a small room and handed my Service Pay Book to the Waaf Officer seated behind the desk , and I suppose we exchanged a few words . |
| 14 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 15 | I went into a full-blown eidetic trance . |
| 16 | My English travelling companion was game to try the dulse seaweed , which is a speciality in Ballycastle , so I went into a little shop on the seafront . |
| 17 | And while I was waiting for them I I went into a little shop and For some cigarettes , and er me brother y Oh younger brother , we 'd started him up er f he was a plumber . |
| 18 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 19 | I went into a steep decline . |
| 20 | After hours of fruitless searching , wandering through the attics and passages of the Shell , I drifted into a dim chamber filled with piles of what seemed junk somewhere above the north quire isle . |
| 21 | I felt exhausted when I climbed into bed and I fell into a deep sleep from which I awoke next morning refreshed and happier . |
| 22 | I fell into an unhappy sleep , but when I woke in the morning , the family had gone . |
| 23 | But almost immediately I ran into a new danger . |
| 24 | I ran into a earlier on and it 's just opened again . |
| 25 | My aversion to officers , especially those dressed in the dull green of the Wehrmacht , was already well established when , the war over , I ran into an old schoolmate of mine who was well versed in the ways of the then flourishing black market . |
| 26 | I relapsed into a seeming normality . |
| 27 | I could n't miss this , Watson , so I jumped into a third taxi . |
| 28 | With my father , who was trying to protect me and his cigarettes at the same time , I jumped into a nearby ditch which ran parallel to the road . |