Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] into a " in BNC.

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1 William 's attempt to achieve a pacification of the Highlands turned into a disastrous tragedy , when the dreadful massacre at Glencoe was carried out in February 1692 because MacDonald of Glencoe accidentally missed the deadline imposed by the government for swearing the oath of allegiance to William by five days .
2 The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior .
3 Given Nuremberg 's deeply repressed recent history with its strong Nazi connections , it is perhaps also not surprising that her idea of transforming the former site of the Nuremberg rallies into a peace park should meet with opposition .
4 During his period of editorship the quality of all BDA publications reached a high standard , and the BDN grew into a tabloid-type newspaper , livelier , more pictorial and more hard-hitting than ever before .
5 of the Thames goes into a spin ,
6 Hitting an air pocket , the Vimy went into a spin , the airspeed indicator failed , the engines stalled and the Vimy began to plunge downwards .
7 ALAN SHEARER caught a worrying glimpse of the future yesterday as his return to The Dell degenerated into a bruising stalemate .
8 The Chaika pulled into a rutted cart-track and stopped .
9 After the 1989 elections tensions within the PSOE developed into a rift between the party itself and the government ; the latter was accused of moving politically to the right and of becoming involved in corruption after nearly a decade of power .
10 Shortly after this a number of the members of the YCCC bundled into a car and drove the several hundred miles from Bell County , Kentucky to Newmarket , Tennessee for an impromptu Sunday meeting with Highlander staff .
11 Their dominance outside the Americas grew into a world supremacy which reached a climax at the beginning of the first world war and began to crumble before the end of the second .
12 Nonetheless , the Tawells moved into a house at Berkhampstead with the widow 's teenage daughter .
13 As the eventful summer of 1984 faded into autumn , The Smiths eased into a deliberate fade from media attention .
14 Once again The Smiths waltzed into a situation far in advance of their short-lived career .
15 This makes for a remarkable degree of working-class homogeneity , at least for the descendants of those who arrived before 1920 when what had been the world 's wealthiest and most productive industrial region outside the USA went into a very rapid decline .
16 In that sequence , the P–40 veers into a row of parked P–40s as a line of strafing Zekes bear down .
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